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Pull Requests are a wonderful feature of Github, making managing and accepting patches for your open source project much easier. Recently Github made them even better by adding the option to merge via web interface. But if you want to try the code before applying, you still need to create a new branch and pull the changes from the requester's branch. It's not complicated but too much to type and c

Windows users seem to love the DokuWiki on a Stick edition. And sometimes someone asks if it is possible to install DokuWiki on a Stick inside DropBox1). Of course it's possible. You could simply unpack the whole archive into your DropBox folder and be done with it, but this would keep really everything inside DropBox and thus would sync a lot of unnecessary stuff between your computers. Since spa

DokuWiki on a Stick is a preconfigured DokuWiki installation which comes with its own stripped down Apache webserver. This allows you to run DokuWiki from a portable device like an USB stick on any Windows computer without installing anything on the computer itself. This new release is similar to the first version, but comes with some updated software. DokuWiki was upgraded to the latest release s

To run DokuWiki, a web server with PHP is needed. Most Windows users are not very comfortable with installing and configuring a web server, even though there are quite simple solutions available already. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just start an .exe file and have your wiki up and running? Wouldn't it be even cooler if this would work without any complicated install at all? And wouldn't it be

gBrain is a Firefox extension to automagically bookmark all pages you visit at the Google bookmark service. This effectively moves your browser history from your browser instance to a central place on the net (Google) where it is easily searchable from every computer. Google contacted me, asking (very friendly) to discontinue this extension because it caused problems on Google's servers. Until a s

DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at the documentation needs of a small company. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki. Have a look at the complete feature list. To learn more just visit the DokuWiki Website.