Crawford Currie

Organisation	C-Dot Consultants
Profession	Consultant Software Engineer
Email	web@c-dot.co.uk
Location
Country	United Kingdom

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Foswiki History

• 2018 - retired
  • No longer active in Foswiki development
• 2012 - 2015
  • Many, many bugfixes and improvements to the Foswiki core and extensions
  • Contributed new AJAX-based configure (with others)
  • Released WebDAVContrib to the public domain
  • Contributed core unicode support for Foswiki 2.0, a major step forward
  • Currently working on:
    • bugfixes and new features for Foswiki
    • SQL-based store
• 2009 - 2012 Foswiki
  • Wrote the next generation Apache 2 WebDAV integration
  • Several important new features for core Foswiki, including CSRF protection (Strike One)
  • Moved several plugins to thick-client model (using JS)
• 2008
  • Much reduced TWiki contribution after failure of Peter Thoeny to remain independent of commercial interests
  • Significant input to the governance re-engineering problem - created concept of TaskTeamGovernance
  • Walked away from TWiki after it was pirated by TWiki.net to help found Foswiki
• 2007
  • Wrote EditRowPlugin
  • Wrote TinyMCEPlugin, the first really good WYSIWYG solution
  • Wrote SubscribePlugin
  • Contributed QuerySearch, the in-core structured query language
  • Contributed many bugfixes
  • Assisted in infrastructure support
• 2006
  • Wrote WysiwygPlugin and KupuContrib, the first integrated WYSIWYG editor
  • (With SvenDowideit) major user management architecture improvements
  • Contributed many bugfixes
• 2005
  • Primary contributor and de facto project lead of TWiki 4.0, Dakar.
    • Reverse engineered the codebase, documented it
    • rewrote a significant proportion of it for maintainability and scalability
    • Created unit testing framework, and initial unit test suites
  • Rewrote and polished a huge amount of TWiki.org documentation.
  • Contributed FamilyTreePlugin
  • Wrote MailInContrib
• 2004
  • Contributed BuildContrib, the key infrastructure and extensions build tool
  • Contributed DBCacheContrib
  • Contributed MacrosContrib
  • Contributed JSCalendarContrib
  • Wrote WebDAVPlugin
• 2003
  • Contributed ActionTrackerPlugin
  • Contributed FormQueryPlugin, the first true database feature in TWiki
  • Contributed PublishContrib
• 2002
  • Contributed rewritten CommentPlugin
• 2001
  • Contributed GenHTMLAddOn (later to become PublishPlugin)
  • Contributed TocPlugin
  • Rewrote JHotDrawPlugin from Peter Thoeny's original, including many new features
• 2000
  • Started using TWiki

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