So I've been thinking a little more about how best to show diffs between versions of a wiki page. David makes the excellent point that diffing the markup is at best a half-solution. It's somewhat inelegant as it forces readers to mentally translate the markup in order to really understand what changes have been made. And it's needlessly confusing for non-technical users: people who are readers but not authors.
So I've decided to do a survey of how different systems handle this task and see if we can find a better solution to the problem. Be sure to click the links throughout the post to see screenshots.
As noted here, SocialText has launched the next version of its software. It adds some awfully cool features but opens up a few questions.
I'll start with the questions:
LDAP Integration. The blog announcement tells me that the new version offers LDAP integration. However, I can't find any mention of it on my demo site or in the help site. Or on the main product site itself, for that matter. I'm guessing that the LDAP integration only works in the appliance version of SocialText. But still, as an potential customer in an evaluation period, I still need to know exactly how it works and how deep it goes. For example, our current wiki only offers very rudimentary LDAP support (it can check LDAP for passwords, but that's all). We're hoping for much more than that in the future.
Now on to the juicy new features:
Thanks, everyone, for sitting through all the film-fest talk. It's been hard to write about technology when I've spent every non-working, non-sleeping hour either in a movie theater or waiting in a line to get into a movie theater. I promise I'll get back to the interesting software stuff forthwith.
This is it: last day of the festival! And I only saw one movie: Miyazaki's Porco Rosso. Review after the jump….
I wussed out and didn't see any movies today. Sorry.
No films today. Instead, we had dinner at Downey's to send Alicia off to San Francisco in style. I had a chance to try a couple of excellent new wines: a Westerly Sauvignon Blanc and a Titus Cabernet Sauvignon. Both are highly recommended.
Though I'd never heard of Westerly, Google tells me that it supplies fruit to several other SB-area wineries that I like quite a lot: Rusack, Margerum, Babcock, and Ojai, to name a few.
No films today. Pub Quiz instead.
Films for day 4: Apres Vous and Kontroll. Reviews after the jump….
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