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Thu Sep 20 19:01:52 PDT 2007
[general]
As my colleagues Manveen Kaur and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine are reporting, Roller is now available via the Glassfish Update Center.
Manveen explains how to get started: just download and install Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 and run $GLASSFISH_HOME/updatecenter/bin/updatetool.
Too lazy for all that? Alexis
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Tue Sep 18 19:26:13 PDT 2007
[foss|wikis|asf|open source|java|jspwiki]
Congrats are also in order for the JSPWiki team.
As Janne Jalkanen notes, JSPWiki was accepted into the Apache Incubator yesterday.
I'm proud to be one of the four mentors who will guide the project through the incubation process. Janne and the JSPWiki team put together a great proposal and I think it was clear to
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Tue Sep 18 18:46:20 PDT 2007
[glassfish|sun|java]
Yes this is my obligatory Glassfish V2 post but listen, for me V2 is a pretty big big deal. Like Eclipse, which was the IDE that pulled me away from VIM, Glassfish V2 is the app server that finally pulled me away from Tomcat.
You see, I've been using Tomcat every day for a very long time. I started back in 2000 when I
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Mon Sep 17 10:11:08 PDT 2007
[roller]
My blogging has really dropped off in September. I'm working on too many things at once and things that I can't blog about yet, but that doesn't mean I'm neglecting Roller. In fact, the opposite is true and I've got a big new edition of Roller Strong to prove it. So let's get started.
Lonely Planet blogs
First up
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Sun Sep 09 08:08:24 PDT 2007
[general|apple|ipod]
I bought a new 3rd generation iPod Nano (4GB) yesterday to replace the armband radio that I wear on my daily runs and to complement my old 3rd generation iPod classic. As you can see, the Nano is tiny so it should work perfectly for me once I get an armband.
Here's old and new together.
I was happy to find that
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Fri Sep 07 15:48:10 PDT 2007
[roller|apachecon|blogging|java|apacheroller]
ApacheCon is coming up fast. I just faxed in my speaker's agreement and I'm starting to update my talk to cover the latest changes in the upcoming Apache Roller 4.0 and 4.1 releases.
I've been four times now and ApacheCon is always a great conference. It's small and cozy enough, but almost all of the Apache projects
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Sat Sep 01 10:02:05 PDT 2007
[general|gis|google|ncsu]
I was playing around with the new flight simulator in Google Earth and flying over Raleigh when I noticed the extensive and very detailed set of 3D models for the NCSU campus. Here's an overview that shows the brickyard, D.H. Hill library and Harrelson Hall:
The details are pretty amazing, with signage and steps and
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Thu Aug 30 05:24:28 PDT 2007
[java]
Congratulations to the Apache OpenJPA team on making their first official release since graduation. I wish I'd paid closer attention to the OpenJPA mailing lists and tested the release candidates. Oh well. I'll download and test the final 1.0 release and maybe we can get it into Apache Roller 4.0 RC2.
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Thu Aug 30 05:08:35 PDT 2007
[blogging]
Sam Ruby reports that AtomPub support in Wordpress is coming along well and he posts a much more concise set of setup instructions for the Atom Protocol Exerciser (Ape) than those I previously posted.
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Tue Aug 28 13:57:23 PDT 2007
[java]
Tim Bray: Java still remains by far the largest development ecosystem, and the selection and quality of libraries put pretty well any other language’s to shame, and it’s really fucking fast, and has superb tooling, and we know how to run it securely, and it’s Open-Source. So, if you want to move the
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Tue Aug 28 11:46:28 PDT 2007
[general]
This morning I woke up a little earlier than usual so that I could run, shower and look presentable by 8:40AM because today's the big day that Leo goes off to kindergarden. It's a bittersweet milestone both because Leo's our youngest and because I've seen so much of him for the past three years. Ever since I joined Sun
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Fri Aug 24 09:45:08 PDT 2007
[mac|blogging|atomprotocol|links]
I haven't been bookmarking things in del.icio.us quite as often as I used to, for a variety of reasons, but I still do about 2-3 links per day. So I setup my FeedPoster to post my latest links to my blog each day as a draft post, which I can edit and post later if I want. So here are my edited links from the past week
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Thu Aug 23 18:13:41 PDT 2007
[sun|sun|java]
Todays news that Sun's stock ticker will change from SUNW to JAVA was met with pretty mixed reactions both inside and outside of Sun. On the day of the announcement, the more than 170 comments on Jonathan Schwartz's blog announcement were mostly negative and though there are some positive reactions in the
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Thu Aug 23 08:47:53 PDT 2007
[atomprotocol|blogging|webdev|atom]
Just learned from Tim's blog that Greg Borenstein just came up with a cute logo for the Atom Protocol Exerciser (Ape), which, in case you don't know, is the closest thing we have to a compatibility test for Atom servers. The logo is featured on the Ape's home page.
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Mon Aug 20 08:48:39 PDT 2007
[blogging]
I attended Greensboro's ConvergeSouth back in 2005 and it was a great experience. So I'm glad that this year, I'll be able to attend again. Looks like they've lined-up a great set of sessions covering blogging, podcasting, social networking, new media and Web 2.0
(Friday and Saturday schedules are on-line).
I just
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Tue Aug 14 07:20:17 PDT 2007
[roller|apacheroller]
It's been a couple of weeks since the last Roller Strong because I've been very busy with 4.0 and some other new projects. Plus, I was getting a little tired of saying "we're still working on 4.0." So now I'm happy to report that release candidates have been made available for upcoming Apache Roller 4.0 release.
It
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Mon Aug 13 20:20:55 PDT 2007
[links]
Dare Obasanjo: A Proposal for Social Network Interop. via OpenID "This is where OpenID Attribute Exchange can be put to use" and "Why This Will Never Happen"
The Open Road: Free versus paid support in open source Matt Asay: "you're better off paying a little money for professional
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Sun Aug 12 20:08:57 PDT 2007
[businessblogging|blogging]
Anil Dash: The only tools that succeed in an enterprise situation are those which are so compelling that people choose to use them in their free time.
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When I talk to companies about blogging, I ask them how their Knowledge Management or Enterprise Content Management deployments have succeeded. And they almost
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Tue Aug 07 08:09:38 PDT 2007
[foss|asf|wiki|open source|java]
Apache JSPWiki Manifesto: This idea has been brought up before, but so far it has not really been an issue. However, this looks like the time when it would be possible to accomplish this.
JSPWiki code base is old, and it needs some refactoring. This refactoring includes things like moving to Java 5, fixing the
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Mon Aug 06 08:52:46 PDT 2007
[rome|romepropono|java|atomprotocol|java]
I wasn't paying attention and this one snuck-up on me. Today at noon Pacific Time there will be an online Atom Publishing Protocol interop event. The location is IRC on the Freenode network in the #atom channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/atom.
I'm really glad I didn't miss this announcement because I spent much of the
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Mon Aug 06 08:52:23 PDT 2007
[movies|blogging|family|blogging]
My brother Dan is a great writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of films, rock and pop music in general, and he's blogging, so it's only natural that folks start to notice. This weekend he got another boost, this time it's a mention in New York Magazine: The week in Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman.
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Wed Aug 01 14:02:18 PDT 2007
[netbeans|java|java]
I've been waiting years for this one. As Roumen Strobl points out, the Netbeans 6.0 nightly builds finally include a "go to file" feature, much like CTRL-SHIFT-R in Eclipse (but in Netbeans 6.0 it's CTRL-SHIFT-O).
I'm diggin' 6.0 and it's starting to look pretty stable in advance of beta1, which is coming out this
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Wed Aug 01 11:34:27 PDT 2007
[general|entertainment|family]
Another great in-depth post from Film Babble Dan:
Ingmar Bergman - The Woody Allen Angle. Dan made the IMDB front page again.
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Mon Jul 30 18:39:45 PDT 2007
[general]
InfoWorld
In addition, the report found that the perceived business value of different Web 2.0 tools varies widely, with instant messaging and RSS noted as being the most valuable for organizations while blogging is at the bottom of the list. Only 11 percent of those surveyed said blogging had substantial benefits,
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Mon Jul 30 17:59:50 PDT 2007
[general]
We had another short but nice weekend in the N.C. mountains thanks to our friend Mark. We enjoyed good food, homemade wine, playing pool and a nice slow canoe ride down the New River. The kids got a break from Lego Bionicles and Runescape and enjoyed more simple things like playing in the river, throwing stones and
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Fri Jul 27 11:48:09 PDT 2007
[blogging]
Russell Beattie was one of the bloggers I started reading regularly, way back when he was a "Java blogger" and developing his own blog software (sound familiar?). I love his long-winded anything-goes style and his encyclopedic knowledge of mobile tech. Welcome back Russell!
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Tue Jul 24 14:21:09 PDT 2007
[roller|roller|propono|atomprotocol|java]
Good news today from Tim Bray: Atom protocol has been finalized. The final version of the spec is going to be Atom protocol draft #17.
Instead of staying up until the dawn hours (not naming names) reading the final Harry Potter book, I spent most of the weekend working on bringing Propono in-line with the draft #17
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Tue Jul 24 09:39:37 PDT 2007
[blogging|bloggers|triangle|webdev]
The Raleigh Bloggers meet-up has morphed into a more inclusive RTP/Triangle-wide gathering, not just for bloggers and not just for Raleigh. We're still meeting on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, but we've moved the location from Raleigh Times Bar to the more centrally located Serena, a nice restaurant/bar with free WIFI. And
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Sat Jul 21 11:06:07 PDT 2007
[general]
Hold your tongue, Mike says it's a river of goodness.
Mike Levin:
Remember the JRoller aggregator filling up with soulmates that are now this vibrant community? Hasn't it been a blast meeting kinfolk around the globe that share the common ideal of faster, better, simpler, continuously improving, shared software that
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Thu Jul 19 20:48:36 PDT 2007
[general]
Today Simon and
Eduardo point out the cool new front-page at blogs.sun.com, which features a site-wide tag-cloud and a display of the newest blogs on the site. By the way, everything you see on the front-page there is possible with the stock release of Apache Roller 3.1 a some tweaks to the front-page theme.
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Mon Jul 16 13:08:35 PDT 2007
[roller]
More of the same news this week as work continues on Roller 4.0, testing and bug fixing. Allen made some comment formatting related changes and introduced what I hope is the last database schema modification we'll make in 4.0. Davis Nguyen is testing and finding problem, some of which may be caused by bugs in the new
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Sat Jul 14 14:00:01 PDT 2007
[links]
Upgrading Jamaica's Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at 40 "There's never really been any stigma associated with sharing or using the works of others [...] If anything, to most it's regarded as a compliment."
The GPL and Software as a Service Closing the SaaS loophole "would have been a death blow for
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Sat Jul 14 07:09:31 PDT 2007
[general]
I don't know why it took me so long to pick up on it, but Nicolas Chase has been publishing a very nice series of Atom protocol articles over at IBM developerWorks. Some of them make use of the Blogapps server from RSS and Atom in Action:
Create a sidebar using an Atom service document: An Atom service document is
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Wed Jul 11 14:38:05 PDT 2007
[general|movies|family]
My bro Dan, who clearly understands the secret to blog success, has done it again with another lengthy and well-researched blog post. Thanks to his most recent post 10 definitive films within films, he was featured on the IMDB hit-list again this week.
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Tue Jul 10 12:05:33 PDT 2007
[trianglebloggers|blogging|triangle]
Looks like we're going to have a pretty good turn-out for the Raleigh bloggers meet-up tonight (7PM at Raleigh Times) with
Pat Mueller,
Jackson Fox,
Wayne Sutton,
Michael Kimsal
and perhaps even
Mister Sugar himself
planning to show up. That's a little unusual because attendance has been pretty spotty recently. In
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Mon Jul 09 07:45:05 PDT 2007
[apple|java|iphone]
So says ZDNet's Ed Burnette.
Ed Burnette: Shortly after the iPhone went on sale, hardware enthusiasts started tearing into them to see what made them tick. They found that the iPhone is using an ARM1176JZF-based processor, probably the Samsung S3C6400 that operates at 667MHz. This chip sports an embedded Java
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Sun Jul 08 10:53:35 PDT 2007
[roller]
I'm starting to sound like a broken record, I know, but we're still wrapping up work on Roller 4.0. We worked on fixes, enhancements and documentation this past week.
I spent a couple days doing a complete rewrite of the Roller installation guide for 4.0. The guide covers the new EZ install process, includes a
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Thu Jul 05 20:12:18 PDT 2007
[general|triangle]
In the unlikely event that you are a Triangle area geek who reads this blog and has not yet signed up, you might want to know that registration for BarCamp RDU is open.
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Wed Jul 04 08:30:48 PDT 2007
[general|politics]
And please get well soon.
Update: I couldn't look at that picture of George any longer, so I took it down.
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Tue Jul 03 18:41:01 PDT 2007
[opensource|glassfish|java|triangle]
Via the Aquarium, there's a nice Java EE and Glassfish adoption story over in Chillboro:
Adam Constabaris:
A fundamental question for us in building this application was whether to use Tomcat and "soup it up" by using Spring to add services Tomcat doesn't provide itself, or whether to use a full Java EE container. We
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Mon Jul 02 06:28:53 PDT 2007
[groovy|java|java|rest]
IBM's project Zero has de-cloaked.
Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and executing applications based on popular Web technologies. The Project Zero environment includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style
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Sun Jul 01 18:02:35 PDT 2007
[general]
Leo got a cheapo CD player for his 5th birthday so the kids asked me to burn some CDs for them to take to the beach this week. I told them that I'd do it if they each type a list of the 20 songs they want and send it to me via email. Alex (10) and Linus (9) took me up on the offer. Working independently and combing
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Sun Jul 01 13:51:51 PDT 2007
[links]
Championnat Régional PISTE 2007By François & Marie
This week in Roller Strong, I've got some status on the 4.0 and 3.1 code bases and note about Roller Weblogger vs. Roller Planet.
Development continues on the Roller 4.0 code base, but we're essentially feature complete and focusing on minor improvements and bug
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Thu Jun 28 17:23:06 PDT 2007
[app|feeds|atom]
There's some very cool Atom news from Tim Bray this week. First, there's mod_atom, a plugin for the Apache HTTPD web server that provides a stripped down Atom server (written in C) that stores Atom entries as files. So now any HTTPD server can serve as a simple Atom store.
Second, Tim mentioned that he's updated his
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Sat Jun 23 09:19:13 PDT 2007
[roller|apacheroller]
Lilac-breasted Roller by David Meeker
Not too much to report this week...Matt Raible gave his Introduction to Apache Roller webinar
on Wednesday. Most unforunately, I was unable to break out of my
Wednesday meeting marathon to attend. At some point Matt says he'll
post his slides to the Roller wiki. In Roller
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