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Dave Johnson in Roller
01:47PM Jul 21, 2005
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Roller is not a commercial product with a revenue stream, so itâs difficult to justify the added expense of supporting lots of application servers and databases. As you said, Roller uses Hibernate and should therefore work with any JDBC capable database, but somebody has to write the installation guides and answer the tech support database questions for each platform â if youâd like to volunteer to do that for Weblogic/Oracle, weâd love it! And, if you do get Roller working on Weblogic and Oracle please submut patches to the dev-list so that others donât have to suffer through the porting process too.
Dave Johnson in Roller
01:39PM Jul 21, 2005
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Hippified jewelry store in downtown Boone, NC (taken at dusk). Boone, by the way, was named after frontiersman Daniel Boone, who once camped here. According to Wikipedia, Boone claimed to have killed a Yahoo, which is "a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits."
Dave Johnson in Links
05:05AM Jul 21, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
03:51PM Jul 20, 2005
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I don't see the notice on Josh's site, so I'll post it here: Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, July 19) for the fortnightly Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup.
What: An open meeting to talk about blogging, podcasting & whatever's on your mind
When: Tues @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cafe Cyclo, in Cameron Village
2020 Cameron St
Raleigh, NC 27605 (map)
(919) 829-3773
Who: Bloggers & people who want to blog (Podcasters welcome!)
Hope to see you there!
Dave Johnson in Blogging
01:28PM Jul 18, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Roller
08:07AM Jul 18, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
10:00AM Jul 15, 2005
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I just updated Roller's Atom support to Atom 1.0 and added the updated template (atom.vm) to this site.
This is a valid Atom 1.0 feed.
Dave Johnson in Roller
09:36AM Jul 15, 2005
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Dave Johnson in General
08:17AM Jul 14, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
10:00AM Jul 13, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
10:00AM Jul 12, 2005
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One of the other things I did over the break was to start reading Core JSF again. I've made it about halfway through this time and I must say, the book is quite good. I like the way Geary and Horstmann walk you through the learning process. Starting with something small, simple and not IDE specific and slowly adding in the pieces you need to build a real app. For me, that approach dispelled the "JSF is too complex argument." I'm finding that JSF is a lot less complex than Struts, which is really all I have to compare it against. I might actually finish the book this time ;-)
At JavaOne, I picked up a copy of Java Creator 2 early access (EA) and I've been playing with that as well. I was hoping to build a simple JSF front-end for Roller, just for fun. Creator looks great and the form designer works well, but when I noticed how many com.sun.* classes end up in the generated code I backed off. According to the release notes the whole JSF implementation and com-sun-web-ui-appbase jars are redistributable (as are mail.jar and activation.jar -- that's news to me), but the idea of IDE specific code makes me uncomfortable -- especially in an open source context. So instead of using the form editor, I decided to base my little RollerFaces experiment on example code from Core JSF, which so far relies only on the javax.faces packages.
I decided not to use the form editor, but I didn't want to give up on Creator completely. So I tried to use Creator in place of Netbeans, but ran into another problem: Creator 2 EA only supports the Sun Java App Server and the built-in Netbeans Tomcat launch/debug feature has been disabled. That's disappointing. I don't want or need a full-blown EJB app server for this simple learning excercise. I want Tomcat. It's light-weight, starts fast and I know it well (as do most Java webapp developers, I expect). According to the Creator EA 2 docs, Tomcat support is coming soon. Personally, I would have supported Tomcat and simple webapps first and then Sun Java App Server and more advanced EJB stuff later. Please the most folks first, right? Anyhow, I backed off of Creator 2 EA entirely and now I'm hacking RollerFaces in Netbeans 4.1. I'll try Creator 2 again when it hits beta.
Dave Johnson in Java
03:01AM Jul 12, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
10:00AM Jul 11, 2005
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I'm back to work after a week of JavaOne and week of summer-shutdown imposed vacation. What did I do on my vacation? After returning from JavaOne, I joined the rest of the family at the grandparent's new beach/golf house close to Topsail Island, NC. I tried my best to avoid work. I did pretty well and that's not as easy as it sounds; I first starting working on Roller during a summer vacation at Ocracoke Island.
I forced myself to take a break. I did the beach thing: dragged beach chairs and umbrellas around, covered my body in sunblock, built sand-drip castles, etc. I showed the boys the original three Star Wars films. I saw The War of the Worlds, which was surprisingly good in a summer fun movie kind of way. I read Freakonomics, also good. That was great; I needed a break. Now I'm back, the older boys are in all-day camp at the YMCA, I'm ready to get back into Roller 2.0 group blogging work.
Dave Johnson in General
05:56AM Jul 11, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
10:00AM Jul 05, 2005
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(Raleigh, NC) Fireworks over the North Ridge Country Club, as seen from my driveway and taken with my Treo 650. Not the greatest picture, but it shows how close they are to my house.
Dave Johnson in General
07:06PM Jul 03, 2005
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11:03AM Jul 01, 2005
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10:00AM Jul 01, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Java
07:15PM Jun 30, 2005
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