Blogging Roller

Russell has put a weblog front end on this SimpleWeb Wiki software. SimpleWeb is the software that runs Russell's SimpleFace user interface design and usability website. I think every Wiki should have a weblog like front-end, it draws you in and helps to build the community spirit of the site. But, should every weblog have an integrated Wiki? That is a different question. I did a little googling and found that people have been discussing the weblog-wiki intersection for some time now.

• John Udell writes "the model according to which Wikis federate is something that the blogging community could profitably study. Peter Thoeny explained it all to me once. Now I want to look into all that again."
• Bill Seitz writes "another approach would be to make a separate Wiki node for each nugget, and the WebLog would really be the RecentChanges page..." and he indicates that he has been disucssing wikis and weblogs since September 1999.
• The Wiki Weblogs page on Abbe Normal's site has a collection of Wiki Weblog links, I just added SimpleWeb.
• 0xDECAFBAD discusses "an interesting melding of weblog and wiki over at www.tesugen.com.
• Mockerybird writes "the marriage of <a href="http://mockerybird.com/index.cgi?node=wiki&ref=wiki-weblog&t=hl" class="nodelink">wiki and <a href="http://mockerybird.com/index.cgi?node=weblog&ref=wiki-weblog&t=hl" class="nodelink">weblog. In my opinion, the next logical step in weblog evolution. It allows the weblog to become even more interconnected and relevant over time."
  

I don't agree with Russell's point that blog enties just disappear when they roll off the page. The couple blog entries in the list above are proof that entries live a long life. Google, good site search, and full-screen calendars keep those old posts alive.

Seems to me that integrating a Wiki into Roller would be pretty easy.  All Roller would need are some nice macros for displaying and linking to the Wiki pages. Am I missing something here?  Is there more to it than that?  More importantly, would it be feature bloat or useful stuff?

I forgot to remove the newuser.jsp page from my Roller installation here at rollerweblogger.org and several people helped themselves to Roller accounts. Sorry guys, I removed your blogs. They were empty anyway.

Cafe au Lait is reporting that Tomcat 4.1 has been <a href= "http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.1.10/"> released and has provided a nice summary of the new features (see below).

• JMX based administration
• JSP and Struts based administration web application
• New Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector
• New Coyote JK2 AJP 1.3 connector
• Rewritten Jasper JSP page compiler
• Performance and memory efficiency improvements
• Enhanced manager application support for integration with
development tools
• Custom Ant tasks to interact with the manager application directly from the build.xml scripts

Time to do some Roller benchmarking again.