TWiki
Software
Jackage
Jackage is a package management system for Java archives (JAR) and Java-based projects. (Early development stage).
USIP - UltraSound Image Procssing for FRC-TEE
USIP ia an Analysis and Video/Image Procressing Software for medical ultrasound signals to assist the Fragment Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries by Transesophageal Echocardiography (FRCTEE) method established by Philipp Wild und Rainer Zotz.
KThinkBat - The Battery Monitor for the KDE-Kicker
KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with IBM ThinkPads.
Gentoo overlay "lefous_portage_overlay"
A collection of build scripts for third party software to use with Gentoo Linux as package repository overlay.
gentoolkit-lefou
Useful helper scrit for the daily administrative work with Gentoo Linux.
Switch from TWiki to Drupal
I'm currently in the process of switching my Werkstatt site from TWiki to Drupal. TWiki is a really cool and powerful Wiki platform, but for a mostly one men administered site with different use scenarios including blog entries, static pages, image galleries, forums, it is not the best solution. Another not so perfect aspect of TWiki is its text files based storage backend. Although, I love the easyness of just having text files (you can easily search and change from commandline and migration of your data is also easy done) it comes at a high cost, the whole page was really really slow, even if only serving one client. Drupal uses a database as storage backend with is a lot faster when using dynamic content, tags, complex security schemas, etc.
So, after migrating my old blog posts (formerly called news) I will look for a wiki like replacement of Drupals standard content editor. I don't like having links and markup annotated in HTML style.
https INCLUDE for TWiki
A long outstanding issue in TWiki peeved me lately so much, that I decided to write a patch for the current stable version of TWiki 4.0.1. In TWiki there is the possibility to include other pages, not only from the wiki itself but also from completely foreign URIs, as long as they a accessible through the http protocol. What I never understand is, why https is not supported. It turns out, that in terms of speed, the TWiki developers decided to implement the URL/website fetch routine themselves. Doing the same with https was not managable and a discussion was fought about depending on just another CPAN library. Today, more than ten month later, TWiki lacks still this feature.
Based on another patch for TWiki Cairo, I created a patch that allows you to include all kind of https:// URLs. User authentication is currently not supported, but can be added easily. Please test it and check the code before you deploy this patch to a production system. I didn't proof read the code a second and third time.
Download: twiki-4.0.1-include-https.patch
The second patch (twiki-4.0.1-statistics.patch) I will announce, fixes a problem with the statistics function in TWiki 4.0.1. Pages that contain dashes and/or underscores will not be recognizes correctly. The patch extends the corresponding regular expression to fix the issue.
