Blogging Roller

The FreeRoller performance and stability problems seem to be behind us, so I'll be making a the Roller 0.9.8 release this weekend. A number of people have asked how we achieved the dramatic performance increase on FreeRoller, so I'll try to summarize the performance fixes that were made between 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 in a later post.

The lights have been flickering and the cable modem has been dropping in and out, but I continue to work and the kids continue to enjoy the first of two days off. The wind and rain are supposed to be the heaviest from 3PM to 6PM here in Raleigh. From where I sit, I can see a big stand of tall oak and pine trees whipping around in the wind. I'm hoping that things don't get any more exciting than this.

is the word of the day in more ways than one. Confluence is a new web-based knowledge management and group collaboration application apparently built upon concepts from on content management, weblogging systems, and wikis. Developed by Atlassian, the company that developed the popular Java-based JIRA bug tracker and java.blogs, Confluence is currently in alpha testing.