What’s a Wiki?

Recently I started working to build a wiki using C# & SQL Server. It turns out, such a task is quite easy, at least up until this point (pulling text from the database, wikifying it and then displaying it)…but I started thinking about something… How many of you out there even know what a “wiki” is? And of those of you that do know what it is, do you use one?

For those who don’t know, a wiki is basically a knowledge base (at least the ones I’ve seen are) where everyone can create, edit, and delete content. Think MSDN, but without “official” editors, layout people etc, where if you saw a mistake in an article, you could just go in and change it right then (sometimes without even being logged in) and then it’s all up to date and correct instead of having to resubmit the whole article etc. and without having to make the author of the original text come back and fix things later. I’m not sure I’m explaining that very clearly, so the best thing you can do if you want to know about about them is to check out the best known wiki, the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

That wiki is an online encyclopedia that all the readers are helping to build. It’s really quite nice…notice the “edit” link at the top of all the pages…you can actually just go in there and make whatever changes you think are needed…pretty nifty idea huh?

If you want to know all about wikis in general, check out the “wiki” entry of Wikipedia here.

Would you like a FREE 2GB e-mail account? Look Here (but hurry)! :)

http://www.aventuremail.com/ has free 2GB email accounts and they are taking registrations today. I honestly haven’t read their TOS yet so they could be worse than Google as far as what they want to do with your information, but since I don’t send anything to these types of accounts that is really important, I really don’t care. Can’t ever hurt to have 2GB of space laying around when someone wants to sent a large attachment etc. Anyway, they seem to leave registration open for a day or two and then close it for a while…so if you try and register for the free account, just wait a couple days, and try again (and I’ll try to make a quick blog post when I see it’s open again if anyone would like that).

Tired of Popups? Write Your Own Popup Blocker!

I was looking through codeproject.com the other day and ran across this article on building your own popup blocker (from start to finish) with C#. I haven’t tried this myself, but it looks like it would be a great intro to everything C# for anyone wanting to build a fully functional (and useful even) applicaiton from the ground up. It’s not going to help someone that doesn’t understand the language itself, but once you move beyond that and want to get into a pretty serious application without getting into too many details, this would be excellent.