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Starting to take shape

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 26, 2008

In the last two days I’ve written 13 pages of specs for the social network project (don’t look too impressed: two of those pages are the table of contents!).  There are still a lot of gaps but the basic framework is starting to take shape. There are six basic kinds of “objects” (information-collections, or (I [...]

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Writing specs; knitting to weave

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 24, 2008

I am stymied in my attempts to weave doubleweave until I can get the wood pieces to enlarge my sectional beam, so I am working on other projects for the time being.  (I have called a woodworker about it, but they haven’t called me back yet; I’ll do another round of phone calls on Monday.) [...]

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Names for the weaving social network

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 22, 2008

Claudia and I have been playing around with domain names for the weavers’ social network.  So far the ones we like are: warpnweave weavingvillage weavolution weavinguniverse Which of those is your favorite?  Any other suggestions?

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Enlarging my sectional beam, and other stuff

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 20, 2008

After some consultation with various weavers and with AVL, I’m going to try building up the back beam rather than try to put warp separators in each section.  The reason is pretty simple: I don’t believe that the warp separators will solve the problem.  Put over the knots, they’ll stick up unevenly and most likely [...]

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Ravelry for weavers

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 19, 2008

You may recall that at the end of last year, I was interested in creating a Ravelry-equivalent for handweavers. I had thought about it, checked out a couple of content management systems, and in general was pretty gung-ho about it, except for one thing: I was NOT willing to maintain and administer it long-term. A [...]

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