Embracing the Wiki Way: Deploying a Corporate Wiki

This article originally appeared in Freepint Newsletter 210. Wikis, currently one of the biggest buzzwords in online publishing, helped solve a problem for my company, Ingenta. We needed to share information between the research and engineering departments, and we needed a simple tool to manage our rapidly growing set of references on key research initiatives … Continue reading Embracing the Wiki Way: Deploying a Corporate Wiki →

Embracing the Wiki Way

I was recently invited to write an article for the FreePint newsletter. The article "Embracing the Wiki Way: Deploying a Corporate Wiki" is now available. It serves as an update to my blog entry on bootstrapping a corporate wiki with more of an emphasis on tips for users. If you're thinking about deploying a corporate … Continue reading Embracing the Wiki Way →

Benefits of Refactoring to REST

Edd sent me a pointer to a nice article from Scott Raymond called "Refactoring to REST" in which he outlines how his application code was improved and simplified by adopting a more RESTful design. The application here was built on Rails and used the Simply Restful plugin to nudge Rails into a more RESTful aspect. … Continue reading Benefits of Refactoring to REST →