22 Nov
When I first used confluence, I thought it was slow and obtrusive. I thought it had no where near the feature set of TWiki. I didn’t know how to do a lot of the things I do in TWiki and WYSIWYG is never as powerful as markup (at least for how I use it).
Then getting [...]
Posted in confluence, twiki, wiki by: gary.richardson
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21 Nov
Niclas at Aspiring Sysadmin has an article about using checklists. It’s solid advice. I typically call them procedures instead of checklists, but it amounts to the same thing.
I’d just like to add that Wiki’s are the perfect tool for creating procedures and checklists.
First, I find it a lot easier to search and find things on [...]
Posted in checklists, sysadmin, sysadmin practices, twiki, wiki by: gary.richardson
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18 Sep
I think Twiki is one of the best sysadmin tools out there. I’ve been using it in my day to day work for a few years now.
One of my favorite uses is for a Service Journal. This is part of my light weight change management strategy. Each one of my servers gets its own page. [...]
Posted in sysadmin, sysadmin practices, twiki, wiki by: gary.richardson
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06 Sep
I was at the Vancouver session yesterday morning. I’m currently satisfied with our infrastructure of TWiki+RT for managing things, but I went in with an open mind.
The software is definitely slick. The UI seems very usable (especially compared to RT). It has some nice AJAX integration as well.
Some of the limitations I saw in the [...]
Posted in RT, joel on software, twiki by: gary.richardson
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