Blogging Roller

Rama and the rest of the crew at Sun.com have been working long and hard to bring you the coolest of the cool. Podcasting, or MediaCasting as the cool kids call it, has gone live at Sun (actually it's beta).  Stay tuned to Rama's blog because the best is yet to come.

I'm proud to say that I'm part of the Sun.com crew. My little part in this endeavor was to add MediaCast support to the Roller instance we have running on blogs.sun.com. I did it by implementing part of the Weblog Entry Plugin architecture, which is on the table for Roller 1.1 release.

I find it somewhat ironic that, because I'm working on a book about blog technologies and working full time on developing blog software, I have almost no time to blog. That's why you've seen so few personal blog entries recently. Matt's right, the mix of personal entries are what really make a blog for me. I hope that will change soon. Now that Roller 1.0 is really, truly out of the way (fingers crossed) and the really fun part of the book is starting up, I hope that will change (but I'm not making any promises).

Roller Weblogger: Roller 1.0.1 is a bug fix release that also adds support for Google's new rel="nofollow" flag. You can get the release on Roller's Java.Net download space. You can read the change list on Roller's JIRA issue tracking system. And, you can find install instructions and instructions for upgrading your existing Roller 1.0 install to 1.0.1 on the Roller wiki. Happy rolling!