Topincs 6.4.0 by Robert Cerny.
Robert details the new features and enhancements to Topincs.
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Topincs 6.4.0
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012Topincs 6.1.0 – (Works for > 97% of all U.S. Businesses)
Monday, April 9th, 2012From the release notes:
This release has shown good performance under commercial conditions with:
- 30 concurrent users
- 60.000 topics
- 200.000 associations
- 200.000 occurrences
- 7.000 files
- + 3 smaller stores
If that sounds like a small number of concurrent users, consider the following statistics from 2008 on businesses in the United States:
| Total businesses | 27,757,676 |
| Nonemployers (no payroll) | 21,708,021 |
| Firms with 1 to 4 employees | 3,617,764 |
| Firms with 5 to 9 employees | 1,044,065 |
| Firms with 10 to 20 employees | 633,141 |
The next break is 20 to 99 employees.
With 30 concurrent users, Topincs supports more users than more than 97% of all U.S. businesses have employees.
Different way to think about marketing a product.
For < 20 employees, there are 26,646,290 potential purchasers. For > 20 employees there are 655,587 potential purchasers.
Which target sounds larger to you?
Anyone care to supply the numbers for other geographic areas?
Topincs 5.7.0
Thursday, December 15th, 2011From the webpage:
Description
This version offers a bundle of new features to make it easy for the developer to create tailored views for users with minimal coding effort:
- Up to this Topincs version all statements made in a form were validated independent from each other. With compound constraints this has an end. By using tiny JavaScript snippets arbitrary validation rules can be formulated.
- Customizable context menus on topic pages offer tailored actions that mean more to the user than the generic edit button. The context menu is by default to the left of the page on the opposite side of all generic functions. Forms can be entered with bound values inferred from the context (time, subject, …). This new feature bridges the gap from the generic web database to web application.
- It is now possible to freeze topics in the user interface and the API.
Apart from these core features a number of smaller improvements and changes were made, most notably the support for SSL was verified.
You would think software authors would not depend upon ragged bloggers to supply the download links for their software. 
That it would be the first thing out of their mouths: Download Topincs HERE! or something like that.
Maybe it is just me. With every release I have to think about how to get back to the downloads page.
Do take a look!
Triggers are coming! Triggers are coming!
Sunday, November 20th, 2011Triggers are coming! Triggers are coming!
Triggers are going to appear in Topincs 5.6.0 (to be released).
From the webpage:
Issue description
It should be possible to define triggers (or event handlers?). Code should be held in a directory triggers next to the directories domain and services.Comment
Triggers are created on the command line with the new create-trigger command. This creates a topic of type Topincs trigger with id ID writes a file into STORE_DIR/php/triggers/ID.php. The user has to 1) specify when the trigger is run and 2) code what the trigger should do.
This looks very useful, whether you have streaming input or not.
Topincs 5.5.1
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011From the website:
This version adds the store command ‘import-system-map’ and the general command ‘import-all-system-map’.
Topincs 5.5.0 Released!
Monday, October 24th, 2011Topincs 5.5.0 Released!
Robert Cerny announced today that Topincs 5.5.0 is available for downloading.
Release notes:
http://www.topincs.com/issues/Topincs_5.5.0
Use this procedure to update:
http://www.topincs.com/adminreference/update-secure
From the release notes:
Description
This release allows the creation of better understandable and easier editable web databases. By introducing perspective and language in label rules it is possible to create contextual labels. The complexity of data entry forms can be reduced by initially hiding less important form fields.
Furthermore the abilities to tailor content and restrict access were improved. The default behavior of displaying all associations between topics as links between the topic pages can now be deactivated by editing the topic type or the respective topic role constraints. The Topincs cache varies the representation of pages depending on user group.
I like the idea of “contextual labels.” Will have to give this release a spin to see how that works! More later.
Thanks Robert!
Topincs: A software for rapid development of web databases
Saturday, July 9th, 2011Topincs: A software for rapid development of web databases, Robert Cerny’s paper for KMIS 2011.
Describes Topincs, a system that conceals many of the complexities of topic maps from users, while delivering on the value proposition of topic maps.
Think of Topincs as avoiding the topic map equivalent of: “How many people would use word processors if they had to learn LaTeX first?”
Topincs 5.4.3
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Robert Cerny has released Topincs 5.4.3.
From the release:
This version simplifies the Topincs help system. The self-explanatory nature of using Topincs leaves the help usually just as a list of available keyboard shortcuts. The help can be accessed with Alt-Shift-H or Alt-Shift-Control.
In addition some bugs were fixed and the access to resources (like images) for styling a Topincs store was made possible.
Topincs 5.4.1 – Enhancements/Bug Fix
Monday, April 4th, 2011Topincs 5.4.1 – Enhancements/Bug Fix
Enhancements/bug fix for Topincs 5.4.0.
Rare to see both enhancements and bug fixes quickly.
Kudos to Robert Cerny!
Topincs Style/Store
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Something to look forward to in Topincs 5.4.0:
It should be possible to customize the style of a Topincs installation and a Topincs Store. By using configuration parameters custom.css and custom.header files the files store/style/custom.css and store/style/header.html should be used.
Looking forward to it!
Programming in Topincs – Post
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011The main goal of programming in Topincs is to provide services that aggregate, transform, and manipulate the data in a Topincs store.
Robert Cerny walks through an invoicing system for a software company using the Topincs store.
Very good introduction to Topincs!
Thanks Robert!