A Path Less Taken

I needed to find a wiki program. I know, it happens to the best of us. I did a little shopping around and decided to give DokuWiki a try. DokuWiki is an open source product written in PHP that uses text files to store content. It supports what at first glance appears to be a hybrid (or not) form of Markdown. It only took about 30 minutes to get the hang of it and start creating design notes and task lists for my new programming project. If you need a wiki software product you should absolutely check it out. You can visit WikiMatrix.org if you want to see how DokuWiki compares to other wiki solutions.

It’s funny how the web works. I started off reading about how to set up a new project in Kohana v3 PHP Framework. A link there took me to the source code of a site by shadowhand, one of the Kohana v3 core developers. That lead me to the site of w.ings consulting which is the web development business of Woody Gilk (aka shadowhand). From there I went to the BlueTrip CSS Framework page which was pretty cool and which I will for sure try on my new project. BlueTrip was created by Mike Crittenden so I checked out his blog. Turns out that Mike’s blog is powered by Chyrp blogging software, which is written in PHP and which I have never encountered before. Not that I need another blogging software (WordPress), but it’s always fun to find new things.

After digging around on the web for a few days I encountered several interesting links on Open Source Project Management software. I captured them here for future reference.

I was looking for a Wiki software product and my Google search lead me to WikiMatrix.org. The site lists a LOT of Wiki software solutions and allows you to compare them using a number of criteria captured by the site. If you are looking for a Wiki tool then you should absolutely give this site a look.

When it comes to software you might argue that thin is in! One category of software that interests me is small footprint software. This includes products that don’t use databases or that come in very small packages. Here are 3 that I’ve noticed lately. If you know of others then please let me know.