Open Source Projects that power SWiK

There are lots of open source projects that SWiK has as direct dependencies, were rewritten or tweaked and live in the SWiK code base, or are operating platforms that SWiK runs on. Open source tools are also used in development, thanks go out to everyone for their projects.

SWiK itself is open source as well, see SWiK Source for more details.

Main Platform

• Linux

• Apache – Apache2.0

• MySQL – MySQL4

• PHP – PHP5

Libraries and small projects

• MagpieRSS (thanks Kellan Elliott-McCrea)

• RedCloth – for Textile markup.

• Ruby – for RedCloth

• FLOSSMole (thanks Megan!)

• GNU diff (rewritten for PHP)

Java projects used for backend development:

• Rome – Backend RSS and Atom Feed processing and the following pluggins: Content Module , Slash Module , and Media Module

• log4j – Backend logging system

• JDOM – Used by Rome for XML processing

• MySQL – The Backend uses MySQL Connector/J for data access

• Maven – Backend build system

non-open source projects:

• Java (this should eventually be GPL however)

3rd party web services used by SWiK

• Google – (thanks Chris DiBona)

• Freshmeat

• SourceForge

• CodeZoo

• del.icio.us (thanks Joshua Schachter)

and everyone who offers an RSS feed that is syndicated into SWiK.

Images

• famfamfam – (thanks Mark!)

• Tango Desktop Project

• sa-ki

Development and hosting

Development of SWiK codebase and site hosting is by SourceLabs in Seattle, WA. US of A.

Inspiration

• WikiWikiWeb

• del.icio.us

• Bloglines

• GMail

• Wikipedia

• 37Signals

• Digg

Specs and standards

• RSS

• Creative Commons

• DOAP

• CSS, HTML, JavaScript

• Textile Humane Markup Language

Development Tools

• Zend PHP IDE

• Subversion

• Ant

• SWiK-Source – internal dev wiki

• Trac, then Bugzilla, now Jira

• WebSVN

• Developed and tested on OSX

• Primary platform: FireFox (testing, webDev toolbar, LiveHeaders)

• Safari (testing)

• IE (testing the cursed one)

• Opera (now testing on Opera v9.0)