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Full time Roller!

Comments[29] by Dave in Sun

It's official. Roller is now my full time job. I just accepted a job with Sun Microsystems to "design, develop, and deploy the primary blogging system for Sun in conjunction with other engineers" and to evangelize blogging both inside and outside of Sun. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. I'm honored to be working for Sun and with great folks like Will Snow, John Hoffman, Tim Bray, Patrick Chanezon, and Danese Cooper. I'm excited to be working for a company that feels the same was as I do about the value of blogs and wikis, open source software, and encouraging employees to speak with honest and authentic voice to customers, to partners, and to each other.

What does this mean to Roller? Only good things. Sun wants many of the same things for Roller that other Roller users want including high performance, high availability, great user interface, support for standards, and better support for large communities of bloggers. Thanks to Sun I'll be working full time to help make these things happen. Since Roller will continue on as an open source project, you can help too (and I hope you will).



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[Trackback] Sun has gone and hired Dave Johnson to develop Roller full-time. That is big news. Congratulations. So, does this mean a move to Cupertino? Ahhhhhhh, I remember the days of working a summer in CUP-02. Good times. Good times.

Posted by Bedeviled Mojo Slop (Reloaded) on August 30, 2004 at 09:29 AM EDT #

Congrats! Good stuff.

Posted by Brian McCallister on August 30, 2004 at 09:42 AM EDT #

This is GREAT news! Now I really need to get my work done so that I can get roller installed on my web host!

Posted by Dan Allen on August 30, 2004 at 10:17 AM EDT #

[Trackback] I'm delighted that Dave Johnson has accepted a job at Sun working on the Roller weblogger for us all. Roller is the 100% pure Java system this blog and the rest of blogs.sun.com runs on. I think this is good for Sun, good for the Java community and g...

Posted by SunMink on August 30, 2004 at 10:41 AM EDT #

[Trackback] Couldn't have happened to a nicer and more talented guy! Will you still be an RTP Blogger?

Posted by Loebrich.org on August 30, 2004 at 10:58 AM EDT #

Congrats Dave! Your work speaks for itself. Of course, we all liked you better before you sold out ;-) Best of luck, I'm sure with you and the talented folks at Sun, Roller will get even better.

Posted by Keith Sader on August 30, 2004 at 11:08 AM EDT #

I love the Sun Blogs and I love the Roller software! It is so wonderfully functional regardless of what operating system or browser combination that I run. I have even used a simple text browser ( links and lynx ) and found the blogs.sun.com site works well. This is excellent. Have fun with your new job and I look forward to more standards compliant open source activities.<br><br>Dennis Clarke<br>Sysadmin and Director<br>Blastwave.org Home of Open Source Software for Solaris<hr>

Posted by Dennis Clarke on August 30, 2004 at 11:54 AM EDT #

Congratulation. Hope to see more killer roller, now that you have a big company to fund stuff :-) e1

Posted by e1_ang on August 30, 2004 at 12:00 PM EDT #

[Trackback] Congrads to Dave on . He got joining Sun to work on Roller Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO welcoming him . Hmm... no pressure there. Now, if I could only find a company that would let work on Eclipse...

Posted by Random bits from the digital ether on August 30, 2004 at 01:24 PM EDT #

Congratulations and best wishes!

Posted by Behrang Saeedzadeh on August 30, 2004 at 02:34 PM EDT #

[Trackback] OK, so Roller hasn't gone professional , but Dave will be getting paid to work on it . It's official. Roller is now my full time job. I just accepted a job with Sun Microsystems to "design, develop, and deploy the primary blogging syste...

Posted by Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps on August 30, 2004 at 02:53 PM EDT #

[Trackback] Congratulations to Dave Johnson . The developer of Roller (the weblogging software that powers this website) is now employed by Sun and paid for developing Roller.

Posted by Software Documentation Weblog on August 30, 2004 at 03:00 PM EDT #

Nice one - congrats Dave!

Posted by Simon Brown on August 30, 2004 at 03:02 PM EDT #

Whoa! Congratulations, man! Keep up the good work :)

Posted by Janne Jalkanen on August 30, 2004 at 05:12 PM EDT #

Congratualtions Dude!

Posted by 68.221.22.27 on August 30, 2004 at 07:37 PM EDT #

This is good news. Congrats.

Posted by Satish Talim on August 30, 2004 at 08:09 PM EDT #

Woohoo! This means that now whenever we flame Roller, we're flaming Sun at the same time! Double points! Seriously, congratulations. :)

Posted by Charles Miller on August 30, 2004 at 10:05 PM EDT #

Congratulations! Since it's still open source, so it's lucky we can continue to contribute to this primary blog software :)

Posted by Xiaogang Cao on August 30, 2004 at 10:53 PM EDT #

[Trackback] http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page

Posted by redsaga ��� on August 30, 2004 at 10:56 PM EDT #

Congratulations! Since it's still open source, so it's lucky we can continue to contribute to this primary blog software :)

Posted by Xiaogang Cao on August 30, 2004 at 10:59 PM EDT #

Congratulations dave!! Now about those permalinks ....... ;)

Posted by Michael Koziarski on August 31, 2004 at 01:03 AM EDT #

Nice. Congratulations, Dave!

Posted by lowem on August 31, 2004 at 02:24 AM EDT #

[Trackback] It is great to see Dave Johnson will be doing all things Roller with Sun. Dave has made a major impact on the world of weblogs , and I am happy that he will be able to focus full-time on his labor of love. Way to go, Dave!

Posted by JOSX: Java on Mac OS X on August 31, 2004 at 07:08 AM EDT #

Nice going Dave! This is amazing news for Roller and a great opportunity for yourself. Congrats!<p /> Brian

Posted by Brian Blakeley on August 31, 2004 at 09:21 AM EDT #

Congratulations! That's to both you Dave and to Sun. Three virtuous steps, and Sun is completely changing my impression of the company: 1. Let all employees blog; 2. CEO does a better job of selling via blog (explaining the business reasons to buy) than any advertising; 3. Virtuous commitment to blogging by supporting Roller develop(er/ment). Way to go! By the way, this only works if you have a good story to tell :)

Posted by Rauno on August 31, 2004 at 09:26 AM EDT #

Hey.. this is terrific news! <br /><br /> Wish you all the best Dave. From a satisfied and pleased Roller user! :-)

Posted by Tarun Elankath on September 01, 2004 at 01:18 AM EDT #

<p>Hey Dave!</p> <p>I was traveling when the news came through, but wanted you to know I'm really jazzed to have you coming to Sun ;-)</p> <p>Rock and Roll(er)!</p>

Posted by Danese Cooper on September 01, 2004 at 09:17 AM EDT #

Excellent. I hope this also affects Lucene positively, since Roller uses Lucene, and I heard there were some problems with the integration there.

Posted by Otis on September 06, 2004 at 05:32 AM EDT #

Welcome on board Dave: the feeling is mutual:-) See you next week. P@

Posted by Patrick Chanezon on September 08, 2004 at 03:01 PM EDT #

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