Saturday, February 04 2006

After fielding several wiki-related queries by clients and associates, along with numerous questions and comments online, it is evident that it's the Year of the Wiki. Wikipedia has proven the concept, and users have a growing awareness of the benefits that organic information growth could bring to their teams.

As such, I'm putting together a feature covering wiki options and alternatives, including specific instructions for configuring and using Wikis on Windows (as this is a particularly neglected area, and much of the information that exists is terribly out of date or quite simply non-functional). Of course yafla provides turnkey Wiki solutions and training as a service as well.

One more point: The consulting work has always overflowed purely from word-of-mouth and associate networking, so the business website has always been terrible (sort of the whole "the cobbler has the worst shoes" thing). As yafla is now entering a growth stage, wailing past the temporary manpower limit, I'm finally going to change the corporate website to properly reflect the services and capabilities of the organization, and actually allow options for prospective clients to engage our services. That should be up shortly, growing and improving rapidly over the coming weeks.

Three yafla resource "shout-outs":

yaflaColor - A dynamic web tool to select colors, including proper saturation and lightness varations of colors
pureJpeg - Remove extraneous JPEG blocks
High Performance SQL Server - Information to ensure your database designs and usage are optimal

Have a fantastic weekend!

   

Reader Comments

Wiki is so 2001.
vanjulio @ 2/6/2006 7:34:29 AM
Hi there vanjulio!

No doubt Wikis are not the cutting edge - they're more the dull, well-worn butter knife. But they've proven themselves to a doubting public that was sure that they would be a flash in the pan failure. They've proven themselves in the large, and now they're ready for the small.

The other entry that you commented on was never meant to be published - it was just some outlines that I used for the real entry, which should be published this evening. Sorry for that distraction.
Dennis Forbes @ 2/6/2006 9:34:29 AM
awesome - I hope they continue to thrive. Personally I've found 99.999% of the population to be reluctant to use any wikis outside of wikipedia however.

Maybe wikipedia is changing this, but sadly it seems most people I work with rather just share word documents between each other with "track changes" enabled. (yikes!!!) Sorry for the somewhat bitter comment ;) Goodluck!
vanjulio @ 2/7/2006 1:04:42 PM

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Dennis Forbes Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.





 

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