Blogging Roller

This is the first in my series of Web Integration Patterns. Check out the intro at this URL http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/web_integration_patterns

Synopsis

Use links as a way to integrate web sites & applications via navigation and relationships between resources.

• rc3.org: Predictions for 2007
  Web applications, spam, web advertising, decentralized communication for weblogs
• Wired News: Legal Predictions for 2007
  "Courts will finally have to deal with the growing use of licenses and terms of service that change default computer access, free speech and copyright rules"
• Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007
  "web applications like blogs and wikis are just the beginning of the Enterprise 2.0 story..."
• Steve Anglin: 2006 Java Technology Winners and Losers
  In the comments: Eclipse is "leaking air and marketshare to increasingly popular NetBeans"
• Southeast VC: Predictions 2007 - 1/2
  "The Year of Apple; Investment Opportunities Emerge Around Search and Filtering Tools"
• Southeast VC: Predictions 2007 - 2/2
  "Tech IPO Market Returns; Web 2.0 Takes on Real Definition and the Internet Emerges as a Replacement for TV"
• Portals and KM: Enterprise 2.0 Predictions for 2007
  "platforms that deliver apps for blogging, wiki creation, and social networking within a single framework"
• Web 2.0 Predictions for 2007 - The RSS Blog
  Randy's list of 2007 predictions and links to some some other interesting lists
• Wired News: Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
  25 predictions from the Wired News Staff
• 5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2007 - InformationWeek
  "including RFID, advanced graphics, and virtualization"

• New York Times: Its a Shipping Container. No, its a Data Center in a Box
  New York Time article about Sun's new Project Blackbox
• Innovation Blog: Blackbox podcast episode
  Interview on Project Blackbox with Sun VPs Hal Stern and David Douglas
• CNET News.com: Sun to unveil data center in a box
  "latest attempt by Sun to sweep away complexity in the computing industry"
• Blackbox web page
  Project Blackbox's Sun.com home page

• Blogging Roller: Talkin' Roller at ApacheCon US 2006
  Outline and slides from my ApacheCon talk on Roller project and new features in 3.0
• SPARQLing Roller
  "Would you like to have a standard and extensible query language for querying any blog server?"

• java.net: The Blogapps Project
  Guide to the Blogapps project, blog/wiki server and example RSS/Atom apps
• Slashdot | RSS and Atom in Action
  (positive) review of my book hits Slashdot.

Old 97's at Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX

• URI Templates
  Interesting new piece in the REST-based web services puzzle
• Revise the RSS 2.0 Specification
  Cadenhead: "I propose that the RSS Advisory Board adopt the following document as RSS 2.0.9"
  
• One Small Step for the Blogosphere...
  Schwartz: "Usage of this or [any other] company blog or web site should be considered sufficient in satisfying the objectives of [Reg FD]"
• Sun PR: Planting the Flag in Second Life
  "We're the first Fortune 500 company to hold a press conference in [Second Life]"
• GlassFish at ApacheCon US 2006
  Eduardo: "Ken and Jim are travelling to ApacheCon next week"
  
• Desktop Java [doing well]. Thanks for asking.
  "Calling Swing a toy is just not serious"

• Open Source Unleashed: What's new with GlassFish?
  "There will be a spike in interest in Java EE 5 capabilities and GlassFish will be primed for a significant surge in community participation as well as adoption rates."
• Java SE 6 Release Contents (JSR 270): Public Review
  "Here's a quick summary of the major changes since the Early Draft Review"
• Removing features from Java SE
  Mark Reinhold outlines a new process for removing features from the Java platform
• NetBeans Hacks (Part 1)
  Growing collection of Netbeans hacks just topped 100
• Scriptlets
  "A Scriptlet is a Java applet written in JavaScript."

• Between the Lines: Inside Amazon's EC2
  [EC2] will bring more attention to utility computing and "cloud" computing, and transparent, metered pricing.
• Solaris Triggers Sun Server Market Share Growth (PDF)
  Quotes from press and numbers from IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker
• RSSTeam Blog: IE7 RC1 (for XP) released
  "Windows RSS Platform that ships with IE7 is API-complete"
• Jonathan Schwartz: Explaining Sun's Share Gains
  I've been counseled [to avoid] saying "we spanked the market"
• RSSBus - Turn anything into a feed
  List of operations / feed sources supported by RSSBus out-of-the-box
• James Dickens: Is Linux being left behind
  "Who knows maybe it wont be long before Apple adandons BSD and moves to Solaris..."

• Pacific Gas & Electric rebates for Sun servers
  "Replace an older server with [a CoolThreads server] and you'll get a rebate of $700-$1000 from PG&E"
• Yes, we are really going to open source the JDK
  "don’t be shy about letting us know what you think"
• MSDN Library now free
  Free IDEs and now free MSDN? What's next, OSS Windows?
• A Little Surprise For Israeli Readers Using Windows
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad now has his very own blog....
• Introducing Windows Live Writer
  "desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts"

• Mac OS X Leopard dev goodies
  New features, which include an RSS/Atom parser, generator and feed store
• Ted Neward » The Vietnam of Computer Science
  "analysis of Object/Relational Mapping--and its relationship to the Second South Indochina War"
• netzooid » Woodstox 3.0 Release
  Dan: "a StAX implementation and undoubtedly the best XML parser around"
• Paul Querna » Rails is insecure
  Paul: "I am glad I am not responsible for any important websites powered by Rails" 
• Daniel Spiewak » SWT running on Swing
  Christopher Deckers has implemented 72% of SWT using Swing 
• Mark Woodman » Hacking Feeds: Malware Javascript in RSS and Atom
  "potential vulnerabilities in web-based RSS readers"
  
• Mark Woodman » Hacking RSS: The Threat is Real
  Mark is making his malicious RSS test scripts available to the community
• James Snell » Attack Delivery TestSuite
  James has expanded the Holderness suite to 1397 tests for Atom 1.0
• Sam Ruby » Attack Delivery TestSuite
  Sam will commit James Holderness' 85 tests to the Universal Feed Parser
  

• Elias Torres on SPARQL
  A podcast overview of the Semantic Web, RDF and SPARQL
• Apple Warns Conference Attendees on Blogging
  "Suing bloggers and posting 'talk to the hand' style notices are not the way to go."
• Open source won't doom traditional enterprise software
  
• Open source vs. traditional enterprise software, part II
  
• DTrace rides the Leopard
  Jim's round up of posts about DTrace in Mac OS/X
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Niall Kennedy Leaving Microsoft
  Some of what Niall wrote "is inaccurate and based on speculation"
• Leaving Microsoft
  Niall: "I didn't want to sit around doing little to nothing"

• ROME2 Proposal2
  "Updated write up and bean model source based on the received feedback"
• BarCampRDUClaimedSessions
  Line-up for this Saturday looks good and includes session on Atom protocol
• Feathered Blogs, powered by Roller
  Henri Yandell setup a Roller server fo Apache projects, esp. Jakarta Commons
• bLaugh » Microsoft’s Latest Acquisition
  Micro$oft: We now own syndication, it will hereby be known as OurSS
• Queso - a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server
  Elias writes about IBM's Java EE and Abdera based Atom protocol server
• Apache Incubator board report July 2006
  Lots of progress in Apache Roller on multiple fronts

• Marc Hadley: Mapping WADL to Java
  Using WADL to generate "strongly-typed client-side stubs layered on JAX-WS and JAXB" for REST based web services
• The Codehaus Foundation, Inc.
  Articles of incorporation
• Codehaus Foundation: Bob McWhirter
  "I’m just the smiling face on the front of the cereal box"
• Java DB in Java SE: John Reynolds
  "Data is really important, and an RDBMS is a really good tool for handling data"
• Java DB in Java SE: Simon Morris
  "a lopsided enterprise-heavy Java community is having a detrimental effect on Java's desktop efforts?"
• Java DB in Java SE: Romain Guy
  "Adding a DB in the JDK is a good move from Sun"
• BBC News: What if...
  "These 'thought experiments' help philosophers clarify their understanding"

• Ubuntu's Dapper Drake
  "easiest install of any operating system I've ever installed"
• Red Hat Summit, pt 1
  Joe Barr on the second annual Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Red Hat Summit, pt 2
  Joe Barr: Day 2 keynotes at the Red Hat Summit
• Red Hat Summit, pt 3
  Red Hat Summit sessions educate, stimulate
• Working with the Google Web Toolkit
  "GWT takes Java code [and] converts it into browser-runnable Ajax code"
• W.W.B.D.
  T-shirt for Micro$ofties: "What Would Bill Do"
• Jon Udell: Earth to Google PR
  "We don't have a product called Gdata that I'm aware of....."
• Verisign Personal Identity Provider
  "I was able to successfully log in to LiveJournal, LifeWiki.net, Zooomr and OpenID using my OpenID credentials"
• Firefox plugins on Solaris/X86
  Flash, Java Acrobat, Real Player, Plugger, MPlayer
• Gnoos: The Other Blog Search Engine That Launched Yesterday
  "Each result (a blog post) can be commented on at Gnoos, and rated."
• Finally! Bloglines Blog Search
  "Bloglines has been the subject of a considerable number of jokes over the last year"

• Jonathan Schwartz: Java Jedi?
  "I would really love to see Jonathan and the people trying to change Sun succeed"
• Sun stuns server market in Q1 with sales spike
  "Sun regained its position as the big-iron leader"
• MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces
  Via Dave Winer: MSN Spaces now supports MetaWeblog API
• Sun Portal is now Open Source
  "Liferay, eXo, JBoss time to watch Sun driving open source Portals market"

• Apache Geronimo is still troubled
  Ken Coar is concerned that Apache Geronimo dev not completely open
• An Attempt At a REST Programming Model
  "an easy way to expose resources from POJOs and interfaces" -- via REST
• ongoing · The End of SOA
  "SOA isn’t the future, Web style is"
• Will Java EE 5 bring REST to Java?
  "On one hand the support for REST within Java EE is good news..."
• Redeemed! JAX-WS still sucks!
  "I have no illusions that JAX-WS will be scrapped in favor of something completely different"
• Does Java EE 5 getting REST mean WOA will break out?
  "[with REST] Interoperability is automatic and guaranteed" -- does anybody really believe that?

• Sam Ruby: Blogging with Style
  Looking for "a simple set of checks which could be made to enable style attributes to pass safely through feeds"
• Feed Manager for Movable Type
  "a plugin that provides turn-key comment feeds for your Movable Type weblog"
• Sun App Server Rebounds Significantly
  "+6% in a year is none too shabby for an 'also ran' app server"
• T1000 and T2000s blow away IBM, Dell in SPECjbb
  "most efficient platform ever for delivery of web and application services"

• Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 / JSR-220 passes!
  EJB 3.0 even passes muster with the bile blogger.
• Using EJB3/JPA with Spring
  "The Spring Framework has added support for JPA."
• Tips and blogs on Glassfish EJB3/JPA
  Including articles on the standalone Java Persistence bundle
• Cayenne Proposal EJB3/JPA
  "Cayenne is currently building a JPA-compatible persistence provider (JSR-220)."
• OpenJPA Proposal EJB3/JPA
  "Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA)"
• Hibernate EJB3/JPA
  "implements the public draft of the EJB3 persistence specification"

• 'Red Hat wraps Linux in sh*t,' says new exec
  "Neither Red Hat nor JBoss has returned our calls seeking comment"
• Red Hat buys JBoss: My Mixed Reaction
  O'Brien: "corporate / GPL / open-source strategies point toward consolidation and we’re not better for it"
• Monster rabbit devours English veggie plots
  My seven year old is quite concerned for this rabbit's health
• Roller (and the World Series of Birding)
  "biology and software - worlds collide! That's just how I roll people."

• You are now permitted to report bugs on Internet Explorer
  Will wonders never cease?
• Seven rules for corporate blogging
  Nicolas "does IT matter" Carr's rule #1 is "don't do it"
• eBay search results avialable as RSS
  They're using the Microsoft SLX list extensions, but (sadly) not A9 OpenSearch
• Heads Roll As Microsoft Misses Vista Target
  But "most [companies] will undertake a year and a half of testing before they install Vista anyway"
• NetBeans Adds Features, Helps Eclipse with GUI
  "Sun is working with an Eclipse member to optimize Project Matisse for Eclipse"
• Jim Grisanzio: Bad Links
  "I'm not supposed to link to this story"

• Moonwatcher Visionaries: Bill Gates on RSS at Mix06
  "The importance of Microsoft's strong adoption of RSS cannot be overstated."
• Windows RSS Platform to Ship Without Secure Feed Support
  "As Attensa and NewsGator let out a collective sigh of relief."
• Atom as a Case Study
  Tim Bray explains why and how Atom feed format and protocol was created (adapted from his ETech talk)
• NewsGator to sync to Windows RSS platform
  Users will be able to subscribe to feeds in IE7, sync and view items from the feed in NewsGator