Blogging Roller

Ben Simpson: As for javablog.com, I see a minimalist approach forming.  The minimalist approach rules out hungry Struts or greedy EJBs floating around in my 32mb of ram container. I was thinking of running the whole thing from a cached set of small html pages.

Erik Hatcher is not the only one with a Java port of the minimalist Perl-based Blosxom blogger software; Robert Rasmussen has one too. He says he will be moving over to it, and posting the code, soon.

Bob Lee: Roller has a class org.roller.business.castor.Import that can import Roller and Radio exports. The Roller build.xml "import" target demonstrates its usage. Wish I'd found this yesterday. Oh well.

There are a number of little undocumented nuggets like that in Roller. Want to contribute some docs?

By the way Bob, your site looks very cool but it looks less cool when linked to via permalink as I did in the block-quote above. Could some Roller template magic fix that or is a due to a limitation of Roller that you have discovered?

Elliotte Rusty Harold: JavaWorld has announced that they're going to start charging $49.99 for access to back issues, which they define as anything more than a week old.