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Tag: wicked

  • Another wicked game in the engine room

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    Ralf
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    It was the early 2000s when the web was still glowing and deforming, freshly spit out from a volcano at CERN a mere decade earlier, taking its time cooling down and gelling into what we know today. Ward Cunningham’s original Wiki as seen in Portland Pattern Repository was already well established but otherwise barely anybody…

  • A wicked problem from the past

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    Ralf
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    In the last few evenings there was great despair. Trying to solve one problem would reveal yet another one. As a result, I hesitated to release some of the changes immediately. I don’t want to make people suffer, having to deal with new improved problems of the day whenever they run an update on their…