Blogging Roller

Worth a read:

The four device classes - QuirksBlog:

And yes that's OCLC, not OSLC.

Rogue Gadgets: Ian Boston: OCLC recently launched WorldShare, an OpenSocial based platform that uses Apache Shindig to render Gadgets and provide access for those gadgets to a wealth of additional information feeds. It does not provide the container in which to mount the Gadgets but it provides a trusted and respected source of rendered Gadgets. This turns the OpenSocial model on its head. A not for profit organisation delivering access to vast stores of information via OpenSocial and the Gadget feeds. Suddenly the gadget rendered feed is the only thing that matters. The container could be provided by OCLC, but equally by members. OCLC has wisely decided to certify any gadget that it is prepared to serve.

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave Shared: South Korea to abandon “real name” internet policy http://bit.ly/ofZ4c9 #fb 09:21:01 AM 12 Aug 2011

snoopdave Shared: Google Retires Android App Inventor, Open-Sources the Code http://bit.ly/o91WZa #fb 08:10:01 AM 10 Aug 2011

snoopdave will TaskTop Sync will beat OSLC link? http://bit.ly/q3g68x 07:09:00 AM 10 Aug 2011

snoopdave JIRA Mobile Connect looks pretty dang useful http://bit.ly/nlxwNS 06:32:01 AM 10 Aug 2011

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave RT @mraible: Happy 9th Blogiversary to http://raibledesigns.com: 3045 entries, 13,269 comments. Thanks for keeping all my memories Apach ... 12:35:12 PM 01 Aug 2011

mgile First day at the new, new office. Obligatory empty startup office pic: http://t.co/7oVDQjk 10:29:17 AM 01 Aug 2011

snoopdave Shared: Million Persona March on Google, Labor Day? http://bit.ly/qmAR5y #fb 09:40:01 AM 01 Aug 2011

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave Shared: Flederhaus - An entire building of hammocks! http://bit.ly/oeEkp9 #fb 03:31:03 PM 29 Jul 2011

jukkaz So much for Java 7 then: http://t.co/7dMuDyV 05:06:33 AM 29 Jul 2011

ryanirelan New Ways of Designing the Modern Workspace http://j.mp/ob3Btu The comments are the best part. Read all of them. 11:37:39 PM 28 Jul 2011

Chris Hostetter: Don’t Use Java 7, For Anything shared 06:21:12 PM 28 Jul 2011

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

Shared: iPhone User? 90% Chance You?re On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance - Mon Jan 17 22:00:13 EST 2011

snoopdave: RT @BrianR: Colbert drops The Word on Wake County Schools, DISINTEGRATION [video] http://t.co/6mjZn4e” #fb - 2011-01-19 08:46:08.0

snoopdave: I checked in at The Rockford (320 Glenwood Ave) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/g7c6wL - 2011-01-19 18:30:13.0

snoopdave: SonaType survey says "lack of integration" is the biggest complaint about software dev infrastructure #oslc http://bit.ly/dHgyPP - 2011-01-20 08:30:02.0

snoopdave: Just blogged my experiences making Roller 5 work on JBoss 6 http://bit.ly/hSxH7q #fb - 2011-01-20 18:01:27.0

snoopdave: Jarvis says FB and Google war is about mobile, not social http://bit.ly/gwIdqn - 2011-01-21 08:36:01.0

snoopdave: Amazingly detailed map of the world built from Facebook relationship lines #fb http://bit.ly/f1iqfm - 2011-01-21 09:08:05.0

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snoopdave: starting to write up my Java EE 6 experiences w/Roller 5 http://bit.ly/fnHBVu - 2011-01-05 15:26:03.0

Shared: Open Source Is The New Shareware - Thu Jan 06 07:00:14 EST 2011

snoopdave posted a photo:

Works very nicely, at least for the short tests I have tried.
2011-01-07 13:30:48.0

Shared: Roller 5 on multiple Java EE AppServers - Fri Jan 07 17:02:13 EST 2011

snoopdave: Interesting comments on "Is JCR Dead?" http://t.co/c8bhmuX via @cmswire - 2011-01-08 12:57:43.0

snoopdave: off to see True Grit... hope we'll like it as much as my bro did http://bit.ly/fNUeic #fb - 2011-01-08 13:32:48.0

snoopdave: Finally, a Rubik's cube that I can solve! http://bit.ly/dJWCQw - 2011-01-08 16:44:56.0

snoopdave: Just ordered a Nexus S to replace my old, slow, call-dropping iPhone 3G http://www.google.com/nexus #fb - 2011-01-09 09:33:08.0

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

Shared: Glacier, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons Again (2010) - Sun Jan 02 18:19:43 EST 2011

snoopdave: "Nobody wants an app for each content source" http://bit.ly/ijgACO - 2011-01-02 12:10:00.0

snoopdave: RT @sspeiche: Contributed #oslc service provider JUnit-based test suite http://tinyurl.com/2bdasvg more updates coming in the new year - 2011-01-04 08:20:34.0

snoopdave: No coffee and email is down - not a great way to start the work-year http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-18/ - 2011-01-04 08:29:39.0

snoopdave: RT @apache_roller: Apache Roller 5.0 RC3 files are available for testing http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/apache_roller_5_0_rc3 - 2011-01-04 08:33:41.0

While reading the feeds the other day, I was delighted to see that the USDA IT department offers support for Apache Roller within the agency, below are the options. Wordpress MU is also supported.

Enterprise Solutions (NITC): Software As A Service

NITC offers a full service Blogging software service that can provide enhanced internal and external communication among management, operational and business staff, and the public. When this service is integrated into a web application, posted information is shared in a chronological fashion that delivers a high level of feedback and end-user interaction.

  What's Included

• Apache Roller Weblog™ or Wordpress MU™ software
• Apache Roller Weblog
  - Multi-node, highly available architecture
  - Production and non-Production environment
  - USDA eAuthentication protection available
  - Customizable “theme” packs, including standard USDA templates
  - User Accounts for site administration / content authoring
• Wordpress MU™
  - Multi-node highly available solution
  - Production and non-Production environment
  - Optional “add-ons” to add additional functionality to blogs
  - Customizable CSS-based themes
  - RSS Feeds

I like the approach and wonder why XML RPC and JSON RPC don't work this way.

James Snell: Step one is to realize that HTTP is the envelope. You don’t need a special new XML data format, you don’t need new security token formats in custom must-understand headers, you don’t need special endpoint description languages that describe exactly how to tell your software development code to automatically generated client code for you. You just need a URI, HTTP, a request message and a response message.

Interesting essay by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on the huge shift we're experiencing in the computing/tech industry with wide spread adoption of mobile tech, social web and cloud computing.

Marc Benioff: Facebook’s success, as well as the rise of other new technologies like YouTube, devices like the iPhone and the iPad and models like Cloud Computing are evidence of a huge shift happening in computing — and it’s bigger than anything we have seen before. And although Microsoft is a casualty, it certainly is not the cause. This is the fundamental nature of our industry in which every 10 years or so a radical new paradigm of computing emerges. From mainframes (70s) to minicomputers (80s) to PCs and LANs (90s) to Cloud 1-the desktop Internet (2000s) to Cloud 2-the mobile Internet (2010+), we can safely say that the only constant in the last 50 years of computing is change. And no company or individual can escape the velocity of change of our industry.

• Mine, all mine (& theirs too) [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
  "Sun has created a licensing option for every employee that simply shares ownership of everything that's posted equally between Sun and the blogger"
• 82 Social Media Policies
  from the book Social Media Governance by Chris Boudreaux
• OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government
  Participating companies include Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems
• Facebook eats away at Email usage
  One of the motivations behind Google Wave?
• Cubicle Muses - Wave's Web of Protocols
  Nice illustration of Wave protocols by J Aaron Farr
• A new architectural style called CREST
  Congrats to Justin Erenkrantz, PhD
• iPhone gets .Net app development
  not a .Net VM on iphone; it uses a cross-compiler
• Jazz Community Site - Jazz Team Blog - OSLC and Rational Team Concert
  "let's look at what we would leverage from OSLC-CM in RTC to implement a mobile web application which allows us to search for change requests."
• Jonathan Nolen: Shindig source repository visible in Fisheye
  Nice way to view the Shindig SVN repo. Thanks to Atlassian

• Your blog still loves you
  "it's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet."
• ZDNet Asia: 'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun
  "47,000 enterprise customers and a ferociously loyal customer base"
• The Connections Blog: Full house! Lotus Connections 2.5 video demos
  screen-casts for 8 of the Lotus Connections components
• Chromium Blog: Google Chrome Developer Tools for Eclipse Users
  "Set breakpoints, inspect variables and evaluate expressions from within Eclipse"
• First impressions of Google Wave | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
  "won't be ejecting existing enterprise collab tools from the workplace any time soon"
• Shindig-based OpenSocial Container from Lockheed Martin
  "written in Java and is based on open source projects such as GWT, Hibernate..."

• Stutzman on WUNC's the State of Things
  Stutzman and others on the etiquette, the addiction and the future of Facebook
• Is Twitter Really That Big?
  40% of Twitter users haven't tweeted since 1st day, 25% not following anybody
• YouTube - Towards Privacy-aware OpenSocial Applications
  Talk by Kun Liu of IBM Research on privacy scoring and applications

• Google I/O video - Atlassian and OpenSocial
  using OpenSocial to connect enterprise apps and power developer dashboards.
• Atlassian - OpenSocial Videos
  Atlassian has gone ga ga for Gadgets

• YouTube - What is New in Rational Team Concert 2.0 Web UI
  from Dejan Glozic, Team Concert Web UI and Dashboards Lead
• Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz
  connects Rational Team Concert to your corporate collaboration infrastructure.

• The Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative
  creating open interfaces for software development services: requirements, change requests, user stores, test cases and more.
• dW podcasts: Abrams, Zetie and Kerston on OSLC
  Interview with some of the folks behind OSLC.

• How I ended up with Apache Roller
  "I definitely recommend Roller for everyone that wants to have a powerful, stable and fast blog server."
• Sitemaps XML template for Roller 4.x
  "Roller makes it very easy by using the Velocity templating engine and exposing a lot of data via model objects
• Apache Roller 4.0 theme upgrade from 3.1
  "One of the reasons to select Apache Roller as my preferred blogging software was the excellent and free selection of themes from rollerthemes.com"

• The Aquarium: SocialSite and Apache
  "I'm finally catching up with Dave's post from last Friday... My very best wishes to SocialSite. "
• Ya todo est inventado: Socialsite, an opensource social network.
  "I am doing implementations of SS for the first time. This software is new, I've been working with this since very early releases."
• Collaborative Thinking: Musings on Oracle/Sun re: social networking
  On SocialSite "Oracle would clearly benefit by leveraging a distributed model for enabling other web systems with social widgets."

• HTTP/1.1 status code activity diagram
  An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes, given various headers
• SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility
  "the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation."
• Business Tech - CNET News: Google uncloaks once-secret server
  "Google has an obsessive focus on energy efficiency and now is sharing more of its experience with the world."

• Forbes.com: A Rorschach Test for IBM and Sun
  "Even as Sun has stiffened into a slow-moving, self-entangled behemoth over the past decade, IBM has gradually shifted into the nimble mode of a start-up."


• IBM's bid to acquire Sun might cost jobs - The Denver Post
  "Sun is known for having a lot of cool technology but not much recognition in the market for it."


• ZDNet.com - IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense
  "One problem: There's a lot of software overlap here. In databases, IBM has DB2 and Sun has MySQL"


• Javalobby - IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?
  (in the comments) "Sun's energy would have been much better spent investing in writing proper Eclipse plugins for things such as Python/Groovy/Matisse/JavaFX/etc. instead of pushing their own IDE"


• SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility
  "the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation"


• Atlassian Developer Blog - Customizing your cloud
  "we've released support for running builds in the cloud with the Elastic Bamboo feature"


• Tim Bray The Sun Cloud
  "We're going to be rolling out a Sun Cloud offering later this year"

• Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch - Boing Boing
  "The day we have national health care is the day that we unleash a wave of entrepreneurship the likes of which we've never seen before."


• Ben Hyde - The Misery of Opportunity: Barry Schwartz on Paradox of Choice
  "those who maximize a job choice did in fact capture significantly more income, but at a cost."


• Jon Stewart creams Jim Cramer on the Daily Show
  "I wonder if Rick Santelli will show his face on Stewart's set? Highly unlikely"


• Unit Structures: NY Times Botches SNS Privacy
  "The conclusion that Stross draws - that adults are now going to massively change their disclosure behavior because of young people - is as flawed as his 'privacy as anachronism' point."


• Rich Bowen: More twitter blah blah blah
  "To tell me that I need to define a goal for Twitter is somewhat like telling someone: you need to define a goal for conversation, and then every conversation you have needs to be working towards that goal."


• Geir's Blog - Dalibor's "Nanny State" Argument?
  "I hope I'm just misunderstanding what Dalibor is trying to say"


• PC Pro blog: I'm sorry but Dreamweaver is dying
  "Web 2.0 isn't an empty slogan, it marks a fundamental break with the past and Dreamweaver lies on the wrong side of it."