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Roller #1 among Java bloggers
05.24.2004 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
An informal analysis of user-agents at the Java.Blogs community site shows Roller in the lead, beating out Movable Type as the most popular weblogging software among Java bloggers. The analysis was carried out by Henri Yandel.
Welcome Jaap van der Molen to the Roller project
05.24.2004 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Jaap van der Molen has contributed a complete Dutch translation of Roller and extensive internationalization changes. He has also agreed to join the Roller project. Thanks and welcome to Jaap.
Roller 0.9.8.2 released.
03.25.2004 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Roller 0.9.8.2 includes a number bug fixes related to database consistency and a some additional database indexes for performance. See the change notes for the specifics. Download Roller 0.9.8.2 on SourceFourge.
Javalobby kicks Roller support into high gear.
10.21.2003 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
This is old news, but still deserves note. In early October, the Javalobby relaunched and rebranded the old FreeRoller service as JRoller. Javalobby has put in place scheduled backups, issue tracking, FTP access for file uploads and Rick Ross of the Javalobby has started his own blog which is going strong.
Roller 0.9.8.1 bug-fix release is available.
10.21.2003 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Roller 0.9.8.1 fixes a number of small issues with Roller 0.9.8 release. Get it at SourceForge.
Roller 0.9.8 is available.
09.19.2003 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Major performance boost! Get it at SourceForge.
Anthony and Min in the house!
08.15.2003 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
Anthony Eden and Mindaugas Idzelis have joined the Roller project. Anthony has been supporting Roller for quite some time via his free FreeRoller.NET blogging service which now hosts over 1200 weblogs and is hosted by the JavaLobby. Mindaugas contributed Roller's excellent new weblog search capability and is now working on refactoring, critiquing, and cleaning up the Roller architecture and code-base.
Roller is officially a WikiBlog!
06.04.2003 by Dave Johnson | 0 Comments
So says JanneJalkanen, author of JSPWiki. Check out the new RollerWikiPlugin, coming soon in Roller 0.9.8. The plugin allows you to integrate your Roller-based weblog with an external instance of JSPWiki In fact, this very blog entry is written using Wiki syntax.