Blogging Roller

I was out of town this week so I did not get to announce that the Roller article is online at O'Reilly's OnJava website.  Here is a direct link to the article, it is called Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger.  I Hope you enjoy it and you will send any questions and comments my way.

I'm Dave Johnson. I'm a software developer, open web advocate, blogger and web geek from Raleigh, North Carolina. I work for Wayin on the Wayin Hub engineering team. I'm also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and PMC chair for Apache Roller, an open source and Java-based that I developed back in 2002.

Below are some of the presentations and other technical writing that I have done over the past 10 years or so.

Presentations

• DevOps at Wayin: Orchestration with AWS Cloud Formation
  Presented at Triangle DevOps/AWS meet-up at Argyle Social, 2013 in Durham, NC
• Introduction to Linked Data
  Presented at BarCampRDU 2010, Raleigh, NC
• OSLC and Jazz
  Presented at IBM Rational's Innovate 2010 conference, Orlando, FL
• What's new in Apache Roller 5.0
  Presented at ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland, CA
• What's up with OpenSocial
  Presented at BarCampRDU 2009, Raleigh, NC
• Shindig for Blogs and Wikis (PDF)
  Presented at ApacheCon EU 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Introducing Project SocialSite (PDF)
  Presented at JavaOne 2008, San Francisco, CA
• Advanced Roller (PDF)
  Presented at ApacheCon EU 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Apache Roller and blogs as a web development platform (PDF)
  Presented at ApacheCon US 2007, Atlanta, GA
• Beyond Blogging: Feeds in Action (PDF)
  Presented at JavaOne 2007, San Francisco, CA
• Understanding feeds and publishing protocols (PDF)
  Preented at Triangle XML Conference 2006, Raleigh, NC
• Roller: an open source Java EE blogging platform (PDF)
  Presented at ApacheCon US 2006, Austin, TX

Publications

• OSLC Core Specification
  Finalized May 2011
• OSLC Tutorial
  Published May 2011
• RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks
  Published by Manning, 2006
• Pro JSP 2.0
  Originally published by WROX, 2003
• Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger
  Originally pushed on the O'Reilly OnJava site

People are starting to download the Roller 0.9.0 release.  Looks like some of them are downloading source and trying to build it too.  That's great.  I hope they will complain bitterly (i.e. report bugs) when things don't work or work in a stupid way.

Using David Berry's tutorial on Using FrontPage with Radio Weblogs I was able to create pages here for the Roller User and Installation guides (even though I am not using FrontPage).  This is not exacly an intuitive process.  The pages look good, but I'm not sure hosting them here is any easier than using scp to copy them to SourceForge.

Hopefully, my article on Roller - also known as Weblogging with Open Source J2EE - will be published next Wednesday (April 17). I will keep you posted.

FIRST POST!!!

Roller is a Weblogger that was written as the example application for an article on Open Source Java / J2EE development tools (coming soon). Roller illustrates the use of the Struts Servlet framework, the Castor JDO persistence engine, the XDoclet code generator and the Velocity template processor.

Currently, Roller lives at SourceForge and the Roller downloads, bug-lists, etc. will continue to live at SourceForge.  But, the Roller weblog will be hosted here on Weblog.COM - for now.  Why not host the weblog on Roller you wonder? There are several reasons for that: 1) Roller is not quite ready for "production use," 2) I have yet to find an inexpensive ISP that supports the Servlet 2.3 API and 3) I want to learn about Radio.