Hello Dale,
some short words from Germany. A great program, a faszinating IDEA, a program with capabilities like MATHEMATICA and EXCEL but only for textual and logical representation.
I work with bLADE since 4 Years and i would never change this program against any other than a REAL (Apache,SQL-Server) WIKI. As a personal WIKI it works really fine, so good that (implied you are really working with bLADE) i really must not use my explorer or other programs. If i would ever know that my wiki knows that. Every word. every letter, every file. 338 MB in the last 4 years. Actually!
i am now working on integrating XML Databases into bLADE,because i ́am getting lamed by adding new pages to my "Tested Software"-Section. The "Template for NEW PAGES" does his work , but could an Extension to have a fuunction to select MORE THAN ONE Template e.g. the paragraph templates in WORD. Or a STYLE which could be used by wikistyle.css. Why not integrate a CSV STYLE (means a nearly a XML style)
[CSV:TABLE:///c:mywiki/databases/database.csv] or
[XML:MYBOOKS:file:///c:mywiki/databases/database.xml]
which could be defined in the wikistyle.css.
This would be really amazing.
I do this now also but i must "tatter" with some external prograns like csv-edit, changing to xml, changing the html, and so on on.
This would be a powerful integration:
[file:///C:\mywiki\mybirthdays.xml!D[!ID!Name!Birthday]
I want to have (a llttle) Database! with a maximum of 16 Fields even that what we can see in a Row on a screen (like in Former times 132 Signs on punched card ). This would be "the little Solution"
Or we have a big solution with ODBC
[[ODBC file:///C:\mywiki\database\mydata.odb][Mydatabase embedded]
Anyway, even bLADE has no database access it is the best formed system to work with text and to give t ́he text a structure and deepness. If i would write a Crime Novel or anyway a fiction or non-fiction i would use WIKI it is teh best authoring system. Easy to install. Easy to use. Easy to expand.
So as an intensive user of bLADE with 338 MB of data in the grid i ́am close to the border to go for a real wiki (LAMP+WIKI) and i think this would be the best solution, But only for the technical details which afford a technical solution.
In the years from 2004 to 2008 i worked for german TELEKOM in making DSL-Connections. I analyzed nearly every error that i had in this time, and wrote it down. In Early 2008 they terminated all contracts, whether you were good or bad in the business. Today in 2009 they wanted a report (!) about bad or complicated instalations we did in that time. (but for NO MONEY=NO MONEY NO INFORMATIONS) They have no informations! No claim!
Meanwhile i worked for hundreds of customers who had problems with TELEKOM or other providers. If there is a problem i can look! I have derived 339 certain Problems that you can have with a DSL-Connection! There is everything!
This is the real benefit of bLADE, Write everthing, now , later and so on.
so thank you Dale for Your great idear of bLADE WIKI
Thanks
Uwe
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