Blogging Roller

Sam Whitmore: This is the last Closet Deadhead podcast. We weren’t shut down. In light of the Archive.org debacle, we simply sense that it’s time to go. Thank you for all your support, and stay in touch at www.closetdeadhead.com.

How very sad. Ten years after Jerry passed, Dead fans like Sam (and I) mourn another loss.

I've been listening to the Java Posse podcast from the get-go and, assuming you're a Java head, it's a great show. So, I was just as pleased as punch to hear them mention the Roller 2.0 release on the Friday show and say some nice words about blogs.sun.com. Thanks guys.

That's the title of Cory Doctorow's opening keynote at ApacheCon 2005, which is now one week away. I'm starting to get excited. Last year was my first ApacheCon and it was probably the most enjoyable conference I've ever attended. Here are the sessions I'm most interested in this year:

• MO07: Portals@Apache: Standards and the Portals Projects
• MO08: Open Source for Business and Profit
• MO18: State of the Web Services Union
• MO19: Apache MyFaces - Open Source JavaServer Faces
• MO20: Your Open Source Strategy Sucks!
• MO21: Power Regular Expressions
• MO23: AJAX in Apache MyFaces
• MO24: Business Tips for the Open Source Consultant
• TU16: Java-XML Binding Approaches at Apache
• TU20: Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches
• TU24: Shale: The Next Struts?
• WE14: Ruby for Java Developers
• WE18: Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails
• WE19: Achieving High Scalability in JBI with Apache JavaFlow

This year, I'm giving a talk. I'm speaking on day one, Monday Dec. 12 at 2PM. Here's the abstract:

Roller is the open source Java blog server that drives the popular blogs.sun.com, jroller.com and numerous other blog sites. Currently making its way through the Apache incubation process, Roller is built on a host of Apache technologies including Struts, Velocity, Lucene, Jakarta Commons, XML-RPC and more. This overview, a primer for Roller users and contributors, covers the Roller feature set, architecture, lessons learned, project status and future plans.

I'll be at the Sun booth in the 4PM break after my talk, so stop by and say hi.

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