Blogging Roller

I'm making final preparations for my trip to Amsterdam tomorrow for ApacheCon EU. I've been packing my bags with warm clothes and rehearsing my all-new talk Advanced Roller talk. Below are the details including the abstract and an outline of the slide deck.

Advanced Apache Roller

Apache Roller is a popular open source blog server designed to serve the needs of large multi-user blogging sites and typically used by large corporations, universities and government organizations. This session for managers, sysadmins and developers will goes beyond the Roller installation guide and explores the advanced issues of planning and executing a Roller deployment, including deployment architecture and configuration options as well as options for customization and automation.

• Introduction
  • Goals and Agenda
  • Caveats and disclaimers
  • RTFM
• Advanced Installation
  • Installs now easy
  • Perhaps too easy?
  • Using container managed resources
• TIP: customize the default blogroll
• Caching
  • Page and feed caching
  • Built-in cache implementations
  • Roller's four caches
  • Default cache settings
• TIP: choose themes carefully
• Authentication
  • Authentication options
  • But what about CMA?
  • Authentication limitations
  • User management changes coming in 4.1
• TIP: separate themes directory
• Deployment options
  • Deployment architecture: small
  • Deployment architecture: large
  • Sizing
• TIP: check the Roller Support project
• Caching with Memcached
  • Setting up Memcached
  • Configuring Roller Memcached plugin
• TIP: enable debug logging
• Scripting and automation options
  • AtomPub, RAP and calling Roller's Java API
  • Scripting RAP with Groovy
  • Scripting Roller's Java API with Groovy
• TIP: create your own Roller build
• Plugging in new functionality
  • Ten types of Roller plugins
  • Implementing a Page Model
• TIP: create your own Roller themes
• Questions and Answers

My talk is at 3PM Friday, April 11 and I'll post the final slides then.

The slides are available here:

http://people.apache.org/~snoopdave/presentations/advanced-roller-aceu2008.pdf