Blogging Roller

At this moment, a dog named Isa appears to be more popular than Jonathan Schwartz, at least according to my... uh... I mean the Roller Hot Blogs hit counters.

I'm pleased to be the first to publicly welcome our newest contributor and committer Anil Gangolli to the Roller team. As I mentioned before, Anil has been doing great work helping Roller users, filing bugs, digging into the code, and offering excellent fixes. Welcome Anil and thanks again for your contributions.

This morning Andi and I attended the holiday program at the elementary school that my older boys Alex(8) and Linus(6) attend. We were quite proud parents as Alex got a "Going the Extra Mile" award for academic achievement. Nice to get out of the office/house. I need a break, but I'm not going to get it just yet. The week between XMAS and New Years is going to be devoted to writing.

I spent the rest of the morning responding to emails about the Roller 1.0 roll-out at blogs.sun.com. There were a number of glitches and some have been filed as bugs to be fixed for Roller 1.0. Some were caused by browser caching issues as we saw on JRoller earlier this year. There are lots of questions about themes and page templates. A number of folks are inspired by new release and are working up cool new themes. I'll have to point some of those out in later post. In the next couple of weeks, I hope to whip up some new themes myself and write a short tutorial for folks just getting started.

Since I had to delete an irritating comment today, I'll fill you in on my comment policy. If your comment irritates or offends me in any way whatsoever, I will take great joy in deleting it.