Blogging Roller

I just committed the code for Trackback to Roller. Roller now acts as a Trackback server, accepting Trackback pings, and Roller can also act as a Trackback client. The Roller Editor UI now includes a Trackback page that allows you to send Trackback pings for each of your weblog entries and that allows you to view the response from the target Trackback server.

Trackbacks are displayed along with other referers (which are harvested using a Java version of Mark Pilgrim's Linkback technique) via the new #showDayReferers() macro.

I will now test Trackback by sending a ping to the Movable Type Trackback test server. It worked! Please send me a Trackback so that I can test my ability to accept pings, the Trackback URL for this entry is:

http://www.rollerweblogger.org/trackback/roller?trackback_support_in_roller

Now that Mr. Blojsom has blogged it, I guess the cat is out of the bag. After a short break from blogging, a world tour, and suspected SARS, the original Java blogger Mike Cannon-Brookes is back with a cool new site design. Welcome back Mike!

Jason Broome, the author of nntp//rss, saw my MetaWeblog API post the other day. He made a small modification to his code and now Roller and nntp//rss work perfectly even in MetaWeblog API mode. Maybe those XML-RPC based weblog APIs ain't so bad after all. If you want to use Roller (0.9.7 or later) with nntp//rss, you'll need to replace your existing nntprss.jar with the following download from Jason's site:

http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/patch/0.3-metaweblog/nntprss.jar