Knowledge Base V1.80

A developer's information tool

Knowledge Base is a software developer's repository. It was originally designed and developed by developers for developers, beginning its days as an in-house development tool. Having used it extensively in our day-to-day operations and become dependant on the functionality it provides us, we decided to unleash it on a wider audience.

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Why Knowledge Base?

How often have you thought to yourself "I KNOW I have seen how the result of that Win32 API function is referenced", or "now where DID I see that list of virtual key codes?". Familiar? We know it is!

Being a software engineer is a bit like a juggling act, keeping the grey-matter (a) what I have to know, (b) what I should know and (c) what I used to know airborne is an artform in itself. Sure, being a great programmer has a lot to do with implementation, but combine that with the gift of instant recall, and a great programmer will be elevated to hero status amongst his peers!

Knowledge Base is a tool designed to alleviate some of the burden on your brain, allowing you to concentrate on more important things, .. write that ultimately elegant class structure, craft that killer application, Knowledge Base will be there to take care of the minutiæ.

A straight-forward and easy-to-use interface

Modelling the application and information storage on a readily identifiable metaphor such as a reference library makes Knowledge Base easy to learn and intuitive in the way it handles and retrieves your important information. Combined with a visually pleasing, straight-forward and familiar interface gives you a powerful tool which enables you to categorise, organise and easily find important thoughts, information, code snippets and articles.

Features

Straight-forward and easy to use interface (XP theme compliant)
Syntax highlighting for 40+ different development languages (including Delphi, C++ Builder, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, VisualBasic and SQL)
Built-in spell checker and thesaurus
Embedded, linked and relative path attachments
Embedded images and hyperlinks in Topic details
MS-style tables in Detail editor
Full Undo/Redo support by Topic and Code editors
Automation Server (allowing you to add information to Knowledge Base from an external application)
Drag & drop support (to reorder categories and topics)
Bookmarks (set and recall like you do in the Delphi and C++Builder IDEs)
Keywords (to further categorise a Topic)
Topic browse sequence stack (i.e. remembers where you have been)
Password protected Books (optional)
Locked Topics
Scripting support for key data events (Add, Edit, and Delete topics)
Reports output to HTML, Acrobat, RTF, JPG, Excel and Text, as well as printer
Drill down and End-User reporting
Copy source code as Plain Text or Rich Text
Paste images from Clipboard into Detail editor
Extensive user configuration
Totally self contained (i.e. all runtime files are installed in the one folder tree)
XML-based persistence (does not use registry)
XML-based granular import/export
Run as a standalone, or C/S-based application
Run entirely from a removable device (such as USB Flash Drive)
Check for updates
Localisation support for Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Swedish (with more to come)!

Status

Knowledge Base V1.80 was released on 13 June 2007. A fully operational run-limited trial version is available for download. If you have already downloaded, tried and love Knowledge Base, you can purchase for $US 39.95.

Knowledge Base Roadmap

It is over 4 years since the first release of Knowledge Base, in which time Knowledge Base has gathered a stong following in over 30 countries around the world. For the benefit of existing users and of interest to prospective customers, future development plans for Knowledge Base are detailed in the Roadmap document.

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Last Modified 9 June 2008