Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development
As I have said before: here's to the complainers. Those who care enough to complain are an important asset to any software product. Hani is the king of whiny-ass complainers, of course. He can't do anything except complain, that is the charter of his blog after all and he is locked into his own stinky little cage, but I do still appreciate the constructive criticism that he makes in his recent weblog entry about Roller. Here are the improvements that he suggested, minus the childish and poorly written bile:
We will be deploying new Roller 0.9.9 builds to JRoller over the next couple of weeks and we may have the opportunity to make some of these improvements, but these are not the only problems we are tracking and the all-volunteer Roller development team has limited time to commit to Roller. If you really want to make Roller better, it's up to you. Roller is open source software and you can help to make it better by filing bug reports and suggestions to Roller's JIRA issue tracker, by submitting patches, and by helping out with documentation on the Roller Wiki.
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Dave Johnson in Java
05:34PM May 30, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Roller
12:56PM May 30, 2004
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I have successfully upgraded JRoller.com to Roller 0.9.9. If you encounter any problems please report a issue on Roller's JIRA issue tracker located here: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller.
Dave Johnson in Roller
08:03AM May 29, 2004
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I worked out the problems with the database upgrade scripts and code. I'll be upgrading JRoller in the next hour or two.
UPDATE: upgrade is underway.
Dave Johnson in Roller
04:08AM May 29, 2004
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I've got a table that looks like this:
create table comment ( id varchar(48) not null primary key, entryid varchar(48) not null, name varchar(255) null, email varchar(255) null, url varchar(255) null, content text null, posttime timestamp not null, spam bit default 0 not null, remotehost varchar(128) null );And I want to set the spam field in all rows to false like so:
update comment set spam=false;But that command also resets all of the posttime fields in the table to the current time. If I use the following command, my posttime fields are preserved.
update comment set spam=false, posttime=posttime;What's up with that? Why does an update of one field affect other fields?
Dave Johnson in General
03:57AM May 29, 2004
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I think Roller 0.9.9 is ready for prime-time and I plan on deploying it to JRoller this weekend. I spent the last couple of nights testing the upgrade process using a very recent copy of the JRoller database and I believe that I will have all of the glitches worked out by this evening. I will post an announcement here a couple of hours before I begin the upgrade, which I hope will take less than an hour.
The plan is to upgrade JRoller to 0.9.9, get feedback and bug reports, fix bugs, release 0.9.9.1, get feedback and bug reports, fix bugs, release Roller 0.9.9.2, and then repeat the process until we are ready to declare victory. Once we reach that point, we'll call it Roller 1.0 and release it on SourceForge.
The major new features of Roller 1.0 will be a new Editor UI, hierarchical categories, hierarchical bookmark/blogroll folders with OPML import/export, Atom API support, Atom newsfeed support, a new look-and-feel in the Web interface, lots of other features, and numerous bug fixes. Some of these features may be disabled in the Roller 0.9.9 cut that I will deploy this weekend.
Dave Johnson in Roller
04:25AM May 28, 2004
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Eric Sink: Microsoft's new enterprise-class source control tool was written from scratch by a team in the Raleigh-Durham area. The team is being led by Brian Harry, the guy who originally developed SourceSafe at OneTree before it was acquired by Microsoft.So much for Vault. Seems to me, Eric made an error in choosing his competition.
Dave Johnson in Microsoft
07:27PM May 25, 2004
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I followed the PostgreSQL installation instructions on Apple's site and got PostgreSQL up and running in no time. To make PostgreSQL start when MacOS starts, I had to do a little more work. I added a startup item as described in James Duncan Davidson's Running Mac OS X Panther. First, I created a startup item directory and used vi to create a parameters file:
root# mkdir -p /Library/StartupItems/PostgreSQL root# cd /Library/StartupItems/PostgresSQL root# vi StartupParameters.plist
Next, I guessed that PostgreSQL requires Directory Services and uses Disks and came up with this StartupParameters.plist file:
{ Description = "PostgreSQL Server"; Provides = ("PostgreSQL"); Requires = ("DirectoryServices"); Uses = ("Disks"); OrderPreference = "None"; }
Finally, I wrote a startup script to start, restart, and stop PostgreSQL:
#!/bin/sh . /etc/rc.common StartService() { echo "Starting PostgreSQL" sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /var/postgres/rollerdb & } RestartService() { echo "Restarting PostgreSQL" sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgres/rollerdb stop sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /var/postgres/rollerdb & } StopService() { echo "Stopping PostgreSQL" sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgres/rollerdb stop } RunService "$1"
Once I was done with that I tested starting, restarting, and stopping PostgreSQL using the SystemStarter command. Once the script worked, I rebooted and found that PostgreSQL did indeed start on startup. It works, but I wonder, is this the best way to configure service for Mac OS X? Davidson's book menioned xinetd and mach bootstrap servers, but says that the SystemStarter is the way to go for now.
Dave Johnson in Mac
04:45PM May 25, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Java
05:51PM May 24, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Roller
05:51PM May 23, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Roller
05:51PM May 23, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Java
05:51PM May 23, 2004
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After reading Matt's post, I was a little concerned about Powerbook performance. I'm not concerned anymore. On my Powerbook (1.5GHz, 1.25GB RAM) a full Roller build takes 53 seconds. On my Windows XP desktop box (2.4GHz, 1GB RAM), a full Roller build takes 45 seconds. I don't even notice the difference.
I have to retract the bad things that I said about Eclipse and Fire. I've been using Eclipse 3.0 M8 on MacOS for a couple of weeks now and, while it is not pretty or as snappy as the Windows version, it is definitely usable. Kudos to the Eclipse and SWT developers. I stuck with Fire and it has really grown on me. I use it for IRC, AIM, and YahooIM and I enjoy it as much as I do Trillian on Windows. I'd like to see more IRC features, but that's my only complaint.
Dave Johnson in Mac
05:51PM May 19, 2004
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Nerd news site Slashdot caught wind of the JBoss Group's slimey business tactics, linked to three weblogs on JRoller, and proved that Roller can survive the Slashdot effect. This says a lot about Roller and the technology stack that supports Roller including Tomcat, Struts, Velocity, Hibernate, and especially OSCache. Via Rick Ross.
Dave Johnson in Roller
05:51PM May 19, 2004
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Lance Lavandowska: Roller needs more "community" to get where it is going.
Dave Johnson in Roller
05:51PM May 18, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Java
05:51PM May 18, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Java
05:51PM May 16, 2004
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
05:51PM May 16, 2004
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