Hawksworx

I have used TiddlyWiki, the popular self-contained wiki, before and had even tinkered under the hood a little, but I have never really tried using it in anger. My uses for it until now have been mostly simple tasks such as keeping lists and jottings in central location up in the cloud.

A useful resource, I think, is TiddlySpot, who will host a TiddlyWiki for you and let you access it via your own URL. TiddlySpot also use AJAX to save your changes back to their server. Neat.

In the past I have spent some time tweaking TiddlyWiki’s CSS to customise the look and feel a little, but this has always been fairly shallow exploration.

Since one of the exciting applications of TiddlyWiki is that it can be used as a platform for hosting your website, it seems good sense for us to use it as our own site at Osmosoft. After all, we should ‘eat our own dog food’, right?

With that in mind, today I have been working on restyling a TiddlyWiki in order for it to look and behave like a company website with all the branding considerations that go along with the task. …and I have to say, this is fun!

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I am very excited to be joining BT Osmosoft, an open source development group recently set up by BT and the creator of the excellent Tiddlywiki, Jeremy Ruston. I will be joining the team as Client-side Developer and hope to have lots of fun designing and developing new and exciting web resources in an open source, “web 2.0″ styleee.

BT have had some criticism recently for some bizarre recruitment techniques in the area of web technologies. I am pleased to say that this was certainly not my experience. I met with some very capable and opinionated web professionals and am really looking forward to the experience of working with them.

This post marks my long overdue entry into the world of blogging and I’m happy to be here.  I’m planning on posting on lots of topics, being personal, professional or just as a way to sound off.  All aboard!