[Fwd: Soks rocks]
Copied from Email on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:03:50 -0500 from Bil Kleb (Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov)
FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Soks rocks Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:34:52 -0500 From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov> Organization: NASA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Part I: Some folks from our newly-formed "Innovation Institute" scheduled a meeting to talk with me and my officemate, Bill Wood, about "what we were doing" and if any of it could be incorporated into their world. We didn't know what to make of this, but as the meeting progressed we talked about the notion of aggressive incompetence, agile software development, time management, meeting skills, study groups, NASAGA, and many other things we've come to learn through the software development community. -- Thanks! Apparently picking up on our strong software-development bent, they related a story of spending the last year trying to get a "knowledge management system" out of our local IT folks and how they recently abandoned them and are now becoming frustrated with an onsite contractor team. (The first try produced nothing after nearly a year and the second seems to want to document *everything*.) They said all they wanted was "unfettered add, search, upload, and open discussion". After the meeting, I considered Ruwiki, Instiki and then recalled Britt's report on trying out Soks. So I did the one-step install sudo gem install Soks soks-create-wiki.rb and I'll be damned if not within 4 hours I had there entire site humming on Soks -- If they would have hired me for the original job, I could have absconded with $75k/hr! I'm supposed to demonstrate Wiki technology to their director tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see how it goes over having their entire site in my pocket... Regards, -- Bil, x4364 P.S. http://soks.counsell.org/ (http://soks.rubyforge.org) just gave me: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /. Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused Apache/1.3.26 Server at soks.counsell.org Port 80
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