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Windows Developer Power Tools

by James Avery, Jim Holmes
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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13.4 Collaborating Online with FlexWiki

On a recent trip to Hawaii, I (James) made sure to ride the WikiWiki bus at the Honolulu Airport, just because I knew it was the namesake of the Wiki application. Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the Wiki, used the term because in Hawaiian, Wiki means “quick,” and a Wiki is a quick and easy way to collaboratively build a web site by giving everyone who visits the site the ability to edit its content. The ability of multiple people to edit and add pages on the server makes Wikis ideal for:

  • Building application documentation

  • Collecting developer best practices

  • Keeping track of outstanding tasks or “virtual whiteboarding”

  • Creating knowledge bases or FAQs

FlexWiki is a Wiki application using ASP.NET written by David Orstein. It is simple to download, it doesn’t require a database, and it’s easy to get up and running.

FlexWiki at a Glance

Tool

FlexWiki

Version covered

1.8.0.1716

Home page

http://www.flexwiki.com

Power Tools page

http://www.windevpowertools.com/tools/123

Summary

Easy to set up and use Wiki software to bring your team together

License type

Shared Source License

Online resources

FAQ, mailing lists, bug tracker, and (surprise!) a Wiki

Related tools in this book

Community Server, Subtext, skmFAQs, FitNesse

Getting Started

Since FlexWiki is an ASP.NET application, you will need to install it on a central server that all your users can access. Download the binaries ...

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