Blogging Roller

Matt has set up a Roller demo server so that you can experiment with and comment on a recent build of Roller 0.9.9-dev. Thanks Matt. Most of the changes for Roller 0.9.9-dev are complete and now we are focusing on fixing bugs and cleaning up the UI.

Bruce Williams Has 'RSS' really become so common that it no longer refers to a particular technical specification, but instead refers to blog syndication generally? Has it really joined the ranks of Kleenex and Xerox?

Yep, that is correct. RSS has now joined the ranks of Kleenex, Xerox, and, I will add, Google. The original definition of RSS has now been overruled by common usage. RSS now means any sort of website or weblog syndication and in this new Atomic age, you'll find more and more people talking about their Atom RSS feeds.

When you have a rapidly approaching deadline, a VPN connection to work, and a house full of sick kiddies, a snow day is not all that much fun.

Via Don Brady on the TriJUG mailing list: according to this post on de.comp.lang.java, IBM is proposing to donate a number of editors from WSAD to Eclipse including ones for JSP, SQL, XSD, and WSDL (here are some screenshots) but not including the more advanced features like the Struts Builder and JSF support.

Suggested by Anthony Eden.

In preparation for the March release of Roller 0.9.9, I'm trying to come up with a better looking theme for the Roller Editor UI. I just committed JSP and CSS changes for my first attempt at a new theme. Here is the mockup that I started with:

<img src="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/resources/roller/theme-r1.png" alt="Roller theme in blue"/>

By Howard Lewis Ship.

Stable releases.

at the 60th IETF in August

Check the right sidebar. I'm still working on making the Roller RSS feed more linkblog friendly and trying to figure out how to handle comments on linkblog entries. Update: The links-only RSS feed now works, try the subscribe link under the linkblog.

Very cool!

That other Dave at that other JUG.

Class data sharing.

Comparing Rife and ControlFlow.

A new JSF competitor?

Now you can google RSS feeds with Yahoo!

I wish he wouldn't.

Trust me, it's not an academic issue.

I sent them to TriJUG last night. Until they post, I'll host the presentation here: RollerTalk-TriJUG-2004.ppt (MS PowerPoint).