Sep
27
Wiki Comparison
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Open Source Classroom has an excellent in-depth examination of most of the main wiki options that I’ve seen in quite some time. The requirements are a little different from most (collaboration amongst 10 and 11 year old school children), but the differences aren’t really that different. It’s not just children who don’t want to learn [...]
Sep
23
More on Accounting Wikis
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Karen has contributed some useful thoughts in response to my previous post about using Semantic Mediawiki as an accounting system.
One of the key things she highlights that I’d never really put my finger on before, is that traditionally recording financial information is a specialist skill - that of a bookkeeper. This made sense historically when [...]
Sep
22
Socialtext have just launched version 2.0 of their wiki product. I haven’t had a chance to actually play with it yet, but based on what I’ve read so far, and on watching the screencast of the new features, this is a phenomenal improvement over the previous version.
The original version too readily betrayed its roots [...]
Sep
21
Using a Wiki as an Accounting System
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In the UK, the de facto accounting system for small business is SAGE. This is most unfortunate, as it is an appalling piece of software for many, many reasons. I can rant for hours on its many shortcomings, but today I’ll mention two of the biggest ones, and how we’ve been able [...]
Sep
4
Harrington on Hold ‘em
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Recently I’ve started playing online poker again, after not having played for a while. Whereas in real life I’m a PLO fan, I’ve finally succumbed to just playing Texas on-line. I can hold my own at the low-limit Omaha games, but it gets too scary too quickly as you move up the tables. In Texas [...]