Triangle Bloggers Bash, Tuesday 7-9PM

Triangle area bloggers don't miss the Triangle Bloggers Bash, tomorrow night from 7-9PM in downtown Durham, NC.

Start at new WUNC studios for tour, talk about podcasting and reception with catered food. Short welcome messages from Joan Siefert Rose and Keith Westin of WUNC, Michael Goodmon of ATHD, Stephen Fraser of Lulu. Then move next door to Tyler’s Speakeasy for drinks and socializing. Short welcome messages from John Conway of WRAL.com and Henry Copeland of blogads.

Today's links [November 13, 2005]

Runnin' time

It's Old Reliable Run time. I ran the course last week and I'm still alive. I'm hoping to repeat that result today, so wish me luck. Check out the route. It passes every important downtown Raleigh landmark including the capitol square, Krispy Kreme, the mold-infested governor's mansion, Sadlacks and the fabulous NCSU bell tower.

Update: Results are in. I did better than I'd expected.

Place Bib  Name           S City     St Chiptim Guntime Pace  
===== ==== ============== = ======== == ======= ======= ===== 
  601  395 DAVID JOHNSON  M Raleigh  NC   55:36   56:01  9:01 

Today's links [November 12, 2005]


Roller-based geo-aggregator under development

Migs Paraz has got some interesting ideas about building a geo-aware blog community aggegator, based in part on the Recovery 2.0 call to convene post and thread at Jeff Jarvis's site. And what's more, he's started a proof-of-concept site, based on Roller's built-in planet aggregator, Google Maps API and the GeoInfo RSS module. It didn't work in all my browsers, so here's a screen-shot:

Roller with geo-aggregation via Google maps integration


Thanks Max

Max Rudman just submitted a patch for Oracle support in Roller. It looked very safe, so we added it into the Roller 2.0 code base. I don't believe any of the Roller developers run Oracle at this time. That means we really can't support it very well unless Max is about, but the code is there, so there's hope for those who wish to run Roller with Oracle. Thanks Max!

Top'o'the line Java tools free (as in beer)

Both Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise are now free to Sun Developer Network members, which is also free. Judging from the wording on the page, this looks like a limited time offer. Check out the flash-demo of Studio Enterpise on the SDN free Java tools page, the UML tool looks very cool.


Today's links [November 08, 2005]


Atom protocol draft 06 for Roller, Atom format 1.0 for ROME

It took most of the weekend, but I implemented both an Atom protocol draft 06 client and a server. I committed the client to the Blogapps project and the server to Roller trunk (in the sandbox of course). Along the way, I updated my Atom 1.0 patch for ROME to support relative URI parsing and multiple authors per feed and entry. I sent that to the ROME dev list.

I hope to put together a Blogapps release this week containing both client and server. Anybody up for Atom protocol interop testing?


Old Reliable Run a week away

Old Reliable Run logo

I'm signed up for the 10K and I'm a little behind in my training, but I'm up to 5.8 miles now so I'm starting to believe that I'll be able to run it without stopping.

Yep. Low expectations... the key to success ;-)


del.icio.us links [November 03, 2005]


Scripting Roller with Groovy

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Raleigh/Cary blog meetup tonight

It's that time again folks. Time to come on down to Cafe Cyclo in Cameron Village, enjoy your favorite beverage (and they've got 'em all) and meet your fellow Raleigh bloggers. YO! News and Observer bloggers, come on down. Ryan and Rafe and Raleighing? SAS, IBM and VSNC bloggers join us!

As usual, Josh has the details.

Cool JDIC embedded native browser screenshot

Geertjan's got a very cool screenshot of (what looks like) Mozilla embedded in Netbeans via the JDIC project's Embedded Browser Component.


Atom Publishing Protocol - Draft 06

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that I've been writing a book RSS and Atom in Action on developing applications with RSS, Atom and other blog technologies. I finished writing a couple of months ago except for one chapter, the one that covers the Atom protocol. I can't finish that chapter until the Atom protocol is stable. With Draft 06, which was posted today, I think I might just have the stability I need.

Tonight I'll start working on updating my Atom client (that's the Chapter 8 example in my Blogapps project) and my Atom server (in the Roller sandbox). Once I'm done, I'll make a Blogapps examples and demo server release so that folks can try my client and server with other developing Atom protocol implementations.

blogapps.dev.java.net approved

It took a bit longer than I expected, but my Blogapps project was just approved on Java.Net. I didn't realize that I had to upload some content for review by the community masters. As soon as I uploaded my code an put up a front page, the project was reviewed and approved.

At the moment, you can only get the Blogapps Java code and you can only get it via CVS. There are Ant built scripts and README files that tell you how to build and run the examples. Next up: some reasonable docs, the C# examples, and a real release. I'll release a build of the examples and the Blogapps demo server (the standalone Roller, JSPWiki Tomcat, and HSQLDB bundle). Here's the project summary:

Blogapps - Useful RSS/Atom examples and utilities

This project hosts the examples and utilities from the Manning Publications book RSS and Atom In Action. These examples and utilities are designed to be useful even if you haven't read the book. They're available under the Apache License 2.0 so you can use the code in your applications and you can modify and redistribute them as you wish (as long as you adhere to the Apache license). We're hosting them here to make it easy to support, maintain and improve them in response to user and reader feedback.

Here's a summary of the current examples and utilities

  • ch02 - BlogPoster: Simple XML-RPC example
  • ch05 - AnyFeedParser: Newsfeed parsing examples and the AnyFeedParser
  • ch06 - FileDepot: Newsfeed generation examples
  • ch07 - BlogClient: Blog client library and MetaWeblog API implementation
  • ch08 - BlogClient2: Atom examples and blog client library implementation
  • ch09 - PlanetRoller: Planet Roller aggregator
  • ch10 - Tapi2opml: OPML Technorati client and OPML example
  • ch11 - Cross poster: posts all items from list of newsfeeds to a blog
  • ch12 - Mail blogger: posts items that arrive in an email inbox
  • ch13 - Blog mailer: emails digest of recent blog posts every 3 days
  • ch14 - Ant blogger: Ant tasks for posting and uploading files to a blog
  • ch15 - Blogbot: IRC chat robot that blogs on command
  • ch16 - FileCaster: simple podcast server with file-upload
  • ex01 - FeedPoster: posts digest of recent blog posts
  • Blogapps Demo Server: Demo blog/wiki server based on Roller/JSPWiki

del.icio.us links [October 28, 2005]


Roller 2.0 goes live on blogs.sun.com

Linda Skrocki: Dave and Allen just promoted Roller 2.0 to blogs.sun.com. A couple of the hot new features are group blogging (one weblog - multiple authors) and lots of user interface enhancements that Josef (UI/UE guru) helped the team iterate.

Kudos to Dave, Allen, Josef & the rest of the Roller development team!
And there was much rejoicing! You'll hear more about Roller 2.0 as we try to coax a release out of the Apache Incubator.

del.icio.us links [October 27, 2005]


State of spam prevention in Roller

I've started a proposal for improving spam prevention measures in Roller. I posted the first part of the proposal on the Roller wiki, which covers the state of spam prevention in Roller (as of Roller 2.0, which is just about ready for release). Later this week, I'll propose specific features and bug fixes to address Roller's limitations in this area.

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