Blogging Roller

Noted Java expert, author, and stand-up comedian David Geary uses his new JRoller blog to answer Matt's Raible's complaints about JSF in point-by-point fashion. See also, the Server Side flame-a-thread on Matt's post. Nice to see some spirited discussion of JSF. BTW, I just bought Geary's new JSF book: Core Java Server Faces.

Some interesting blog apps that I noticed this week:

• mOlympics: Russell Beattie introduced mOlympics, a blog aggregator that combines Olympics related news stories into a mobile-friendly news portal. Russell's aggregator allows him to set up an "aggregated mobile news site for any topic." Each story is avaliable in regular Web flavor and WML via Googles WML proxy service. Russell wonders about the legality of aggregator content created by others without their permission, and so do I.


• Simon Brown released an early verison of his Pebble-specific Deskblog product. The screenshots look very nice.


• Erik Hatcher reviews Mike Clark's new book Pragmatic Automation and mentions that the book includes a blog app that enables Cruise Control to RSS. On first glance, it appears that the blog app is simply a Log4J appender that writes to RSS format.

The storm that devastated Florida and that appeared to be making a run at Raleigh fizzled out, fell apart, and passed right by. We got quite a lot of rain over the last couple of days due to the twin storms and we had to keep an eye on the new last night due to the tornado warnings, but that is the extent of the damage in Raleighwood. We lucked out on this one and so did Jamaica.

Richard Osbaldeston has been doing some Roller macro hacking. His most recent post on the topic explains how to set the title of your Roller weblog to be the same as the title of your most recent weblog entry. We'll have to work on that because it really shouldn't be that hard to do.