Blogging Roller

• snellspace.com: Rollin' on with Roller
  More good news for Roller. We seem to be picking up some momentum
• jMaki framework, Phobos and jRuby on Rails on Java EE...
  Ludovic announces jMaki 1.0 beta and new Phobos plugins for Netbeans
• Phobos module for Netbeans
  Embedded Grizzly enables easy server-side JavaScript debugging in Netbeans
• Jezzly or Gretty? Running Jetty on top of Grizzly
  Grizzly-Jetty integration cound bring Grizzly to JBoss, Jonas, Geronimo, etc.
• Understanding Grizzly part I: Embedding Grizzly HTTP Web Server in 5 lines
  Light weight alternative to Jetty

• People Over Process: IBM SWG: Lotus "Ventura"
  "the most exciting thing I've seen at the event is IBM's 'Ventura' project"
• Elias Torres: A New Ventura
  "The experience of taking something built by the community and making it a product has been incredibly rewarding"
• snellspace.com: chmod 777 ventura
  "Sprinkled throughout the entire suite is support for Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol"
• The lost outpost: Ventura is revealed
  "I've been a user of IBM's internal blogging platform - known as BlogCentral, and based off of Roller - for well over a year now."
• Mixing Dojo and Roller
  "category chooser that uses Dojo (a powerful JavaScript library) to create a Fisheye effect"

Hmmm... That link to Cote's People Over Process blog is now a 404. I'll let Cote explain that if he wants to. You can find details similar to those that Cote posted in Luis Suarez's blog post titled IBM Lotus Ventura: IBM's Take of Social Software within the Enterprise. Here's an excerpt: 

Lotus Ventura is supposed to be IBM’s adventure (Pun intended ) into the social computing world for the enterprise. Yes, once again, that IBM 2.0 thing. And as you may have been able to read already over at Cote’s weblog post Ventura would be an application that will integrate a number of different social software tools that, as James mentioned, some of us, inside of IBM, have been using for years now!:

1. IBM’s BluePages (a.k.a. IBM’s employee directory): So that expertise location within the enterprise can be easier than ever having access not only to knowledge workers but also to the information behind those same knowledge workers. That is, their information.
2. Dogear: IBM’s social bookmarking application: and which I have talked about over here a few times already.
3. Activities: Of which you would be able to read some more about on the presentation I shared yesterday over here from Mike Roche (Slides 6, 23, 46 and 49) and of which I will talk about some time later on.
4. Communities: Given my role as a community builder and knowledge manager, this is actually one of the components that I will be really looking forward to and that, as time goes by, I will be able to share some further details on it.
5. Roller: Or, as we all know, weblogging; yes, that is right. Ventura will have a component that would connect knowledge workers with the world of weblogs using the Roller weblogging engine, which is basically what we have been using as well inside IBM with Blog Central. I have been keeping my Intranet weblog over there for nearly three years and it would be an incredible experience to be able to see it integrate nicely into Ventura’s other components. Nifty!
6. Integration with other components: Like search or Lotus Sametime 7.5, amongst others. Actually with the inclusion of that integration with Sametime 7.5 we would be getting the best out of both worlds, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. And all that available from a single point of entry. Can it get better than this ? Hummm. I don’t think so.

• JBoss's Fleury on the GPL and IBM's reaction
  Mark Fleury: "Sun calls their bluff and goes GPL, they're not happy"
• Netbeans + Ruby = true
  Syntax high-lighting and code completion for Ruby, in Netbeans
• Blogtronix built white label "Channel 9" for enterprises
  Blogtronix sells blog/wiki applicance, now with Channel 9 like video blogging features
• GNU Classpath, Sun, Java, GPL, Reflections & The Future
  Harmony between OpenJDK and GNU Classpath projects

• Sam Ruby: Atom AutoDiscovery
  Comments seem to indicate we may see a shared RSS and Atom spec, which would be good
  
• Atom Autodiscovery spec
  M. Pilgrim and J.Snell, Ed.
• RSS Autodiscovery spec 1.0
  Rogers Cadenhead, James Holderness and Randy Charles Morin
• The Cafes: RELAX Wins
  "Among the XML cognoscenti, the debate is effectively over"
• Time for ROME 0.9?
  New release coming soon with fixes to content/summary handing, relative URI resolving and date parsing

• David Van Couvering: Zimbra uses Derby for offline storage!
  "inspired by the demonstration Francois did of offline Derby at ApacheCon"
• David Van Couvering: Why Use Java DB For Web Client Storage?
  Why use Derby vs. Firefox WHATWG or dojo.storage
• How to deploy a JRuby on Rails app to Glassfish
  Small code-change, couple config tweaks and bam... ROR on JEE
• Pete Lacey: The S stands for Simple
  "Dev: (Reads WSDL spec). I trust that the guys who wrote this have been shot"
• Sam Ruby: The H stands for Hyper
  "Everybody seems to be linking to Pete Lacey‚ The S stands for Simple"
• Clarification: Java ME and GPL and no linking exception
  "Sun chose GPLv2 without classpath exception for Java ME because..."
• Phobos Meets Atom, REST
  Atom protocol impl. in Phobos via server-side JavaScript REST library
• Overview of Project Phobos
  "a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment running on the Java platform"
• Phobos Tutorial
  "short tutorial uses a simple calculator example"

• OpenSolaris distributions show promise | eWeek
  "these distributions point to intriguing new directions for Solaris"
• New file system boosts the already excellent Solaris 10 | eWeek
  "One of the most impressive things about ZFS is how easy it is to use"
• Sun narrows loss significantly | InfoWorld
  "Stronger sales of its Solaris 10 operating system helped..."
  
  
• blojsom/Google Maps template mashup
  "You're looking at blog entries 'rendered' on a map of the earth"
  
  
• Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 1: Overview
  Overview of plans to transition Sun's portal server to an open source project at Java.Net
• Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 2: Portlet Repository
  Overview of Open Source Portlet Repo, which includes RSS feed viewing and blog editing portlets
  
  
• The dictator's free cookie day?
  Opening Move podcast with Simon Phipps, David Van Couvering and yours truly
  
  
• Wiley::Professional Apache Geronimo
  by Bruce "this one time, at band camp" Snyder, Jeff Gerender and Sing Li
• RSS and Atom in Action: Newsfeed Formats
  Excerpts from Chapter 4 of RSS and Atom in Action, at WebReference.com

Lots of reading material on rules or lack of rules for blogging today.

First, some posts about Tim Bray's use of the F-word in a blog about Sun's new Project Blackbox. My take on the F-word? It's good and I use it, but I haven't had the guts or the reason to use it on my blog (although I have posted quotes that include the word). I'm with Scoble on this one: when somebody like Tim says something is F-ing cool, then I sit up and take notice.

• Can a corporate blogger use the "F-word?"
  Scoble: "I paid attention to that new product launch BECAUSE of Tim's language"
• Tim's Bomb
  Douglas: "If you believe [free speech laws] carry over to your corporate blog, then we disagree."
• The F-bomb: never cool
  Robertson: "when you use coarse language, there's no upside. That's right - none."
• Oh My Goodness Gracious
  Bray: "I'm sincerely sorry. But that's really what I'm like."

Sun VP Dave Douglas' point about corporate vs. personal blogs seems valid, but as Douglas points out, it's not clear whether Tim's blog personal or corporate. Tim's posts are included on the front page of blogs.sun.com through the magic of aggregation (actually, only the first sentence or two). Do we need to add a bad language filter to the aggregator? Should Tim and other externally hosted Sun bloggers provide a safe-for-Sun feed for our aggregator that includes only polished professional posts?

And second, some links from Raleigh News and Observer's Sunday feature on blogging, which included articles by Triangle blogging mavens Ruby Sinreich and Anton Zuiker:

• Raleigh News and Observer: Rules to blog by
  Sunday feature on blogging, rules, ethics and journalism
• When blogging, face the conversation
  by local blogger Anton Zuiker, published in the Raleigh News and Observer
• Moving past the "blogs versus journalism" debate
  by local blogger Ruby Sinreich, published in the Raleigh News and Observer

Today, I've got some Blackbox links,

• 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

some Roller links

• 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?"

and RSS and Atom in Action links.

• 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.

Andi and I had some good luck on Friday the 13th. Old 97's just happened to be playing a couple of blocks away from the ApacheCon hotel.

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?