David Chess

I am Currently hacking AutonomicComputing and emergent security phenomena at IBM Watson Research, but was formerly very into ComputerMediatedCommunication stuff. See the HomePage, at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/c/chess/, or the personal site at http://www.davidchess.com/.

I wandered by Wiki some months ago and thought it looked cool but complicated. For some reason today (March 10, 1999) it looks cool and perfectly straightforward. So I've been fiddling around adding an ISBN here, fixing a typo there. Maybe I'll even read the main flow of the conversation, and finally understand what this here DesignPatterns stuff is all about!

Funnily enough, speaking of AppendOnly mode and all, the other day we were sitting around at lunch and someone (maybe me) said "ya know what'd be cool? It'd be cool to put up a Website and give the whole Net write access to it, and just let people add stuff and mess with existing stuff at will." The general reaction, of course, was "yeah, sure that would work!"

But here we are...

I'm now (April, 1999) running a little internal Wiki-like site, using original Perl code whose function is inspired by the WikiWikiWeb, for a sort of informal internal task-force of technical people. (A vague outline of some of the functions is available at http://c2.com/cgi/wikibase?DavidChess in WikiBase.) It's going reasonably well, although I'm not sure we have critical mass yet, and some of the participants are having a hard time getting used to the Wiki style. But at least it's a change of pace!

(Why doesn't WikiWikiWeb have a "Preview" button on the editing page?)

In the "small world" category, I will note in passing that DavisFoulger and I once worked together (I think I was even his manager once). I'm grateful and sorry that I missed the broo-ha-ha that he caused here. *8)

What's your email address? Is there any way I can get my hands on your personal Wiki thingie? -- PhilGoodwin

A little browsing around the Web sites listed above would have found various email addresses. Best is probably chess@us.ibm.com. My own Wiki-like code isn't particularly available, and I'm not sure how useful it would be to anyone but me. If you think it would be wildly useful to you, let me know and I'll see if IBM will give me permission to give it away. -- DavidChess

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