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Friday Sep 06, 2002

Bliki, Wiki, Chiki, Reeky?

Russell has put a weblog front end on this SimpleWeb Wiki software. SimpleWeb is the software that runs Russell's SimpleFace user interface design and usability website. I think every Wiki should have a weblog like front-end, it draws you in and helps to build the community spirit of the site. But, should every weblog have an integrated Wiki? That is a different question. I did a little googling and found that people have been discussing the weblog-wiki intersection for some time now.
I don't agree with Russell's point that blog enties just disappear when they roll off the page. The couple blog entries in the list above are proof that entries live a long life. Google, good site search, and full-screen calendars keep those old posts alive.

Seems to me that integrating a Wiki into Roller would be pretty easy.  All Roller would need are some nice macros for displaying and linking to the Wiki pages. Am I missing something here?  Is there more to it than that?  More importantly, would it be feature bloat or useful stuff?
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Squatters

I forgot to remove the newuser.jsp page from my Roller installation here at rollerweblogger.org and several people helped themselves to Roller accounts. Sorry guys, I removed your blogs. They were empty anyway.

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Go Tomcat!

Cafe au Lait is reporting that Tomcat 4.1 has been released and has provided a nice summary of the new features (see below).

  • JMX based administration
  • JSP and Struts based administration web application
  • New Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector
  • New Coyote JK2 AJP 1.3 connector
  • Rewritten Jasper JSP page compiler
  • Performance and memory efficiency improvements
  • Enhanced manager application support for integration with
    • development tools
  • Custom Ant tasks to interact with the manager application directly from the build.xml scripts
Time to do some Roller benchmarking again.
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