CordonBlue: Fine cooking is easy when you start with good ingredients.
Project Type
An Open Source Software Project
Project Name

Cordon Blue (it's a finch, no kidding)
Unix Name
cordonblue
Public Description

A front-end for the generation of custom TiddlyWikis.
To draw from various TW archives and repositories, using existing tools and methods. CordonBlue would be for TiddlyWiki what "Build" is for ExtJS.
Preliminary discussion of this has taken place on the TiddlyWikiDev mail list.

Registration Description
  • CordonBlue would be for TiddlyWiki what "Build" is for ExtJS: http://extjs.com/products/extjs/build/
  • This would be a somewhat constrained implementation of Chris Dent's TiddlyWeb: http://peermore.com:8080/recipes/AutoTiddlyWeb/tiddlers.wiki
  • Preliminary discussion of this has taken place on the TW google group: http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev/browse_thread/thread/6562d68583b31eb7?hl=en
  • Draw from various TW archives and repositories, using existing tools and methods ("Ginshu", "Cook", "Chef", and "Recipes") aimed at users who are not programmers.
  • The interface will be built around user-friendly access to Demos and Samples and Examples, much like sites where templates are on offer. (WordPress is exemplary for this.)

CB's primary aim is ease of use; secondary, CB will coordinate the creation of a canonical collection of "tiddlers".

TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Rushton has expressed some interest in this approach: http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev/browse_thread/thread/6562d68583b31eb7?hl=en

  1. Backend tools (Ginshu) would create an archive of tiddlers.
  2. A menu is generated.
  3. I select from that collection and the chimera is produced for me to download.
  4. The end point of the CordonBlue process: a customized TiddlyWiki served up on a plate.

What I see missing in the present set of projects is an attractive selection process ... one can imagine a really slick e-commerce shopping site, where you add items to your basket, reviewing changing de-selecting and adding as you go ... with a meaningful lists as the penultimate step, "reviewing your selections; proceed to checkout" sorta thing.

So, to switch from the gastronomical metaphors for a moment, it's a matter of going through "bags" of tiddler to create a selection and then to add that selection to a sack (a cart?), ultimately leading to "Serve me what I want!"

Ben Tremblay; 30JUNE2008
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