Blogging Roller

I don't see the notice on Josh's site, so I'll post it here: Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, July 19) for the fortnightly Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup.

What: An open meeting to talk about blogging, podcasting & whatever's on your mind
When: Tues @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cafe Cyclo, in Cameron Village

2020 Cameron St
Raleigh, NC 27605 (map)
(919) 829-3773

Who: Bloggers & people who want to blog (Podcasters welcome!)

Hope to see you there!

Last week

• Roller 2.0 progress! I focused on Roller 2.0 group blogging work last week (to the exclusion of pretty much everything else) and made very good progress. After making the giant number of changes required to create a many-to-many relationship between users and websites, I put everything back together again; first the unit tests, then the Roller UI. I'm well into the group blogging UI development now and will have something to show next week.
• Roller@Apache progress. We submitted Roller's first quarterly status report to the Apache incubator last week. You can read the whole report, but in a nutshell: Roller is in Apache's Subversion repository now, we're using the Apache mailing lists and we're trying to figure out how to deal with the contentious issue of Roller's LGPL dependencies.

This week

• Roller 2.0 work. I'm going to focus on Roller 2.0 again this week and not much else.
• RSS and Atom in Action. We're still putting the book through producution and preparing for Manning's early access program. At the same time, I'm updating the newsfeed format, parsing and serving chapters to cover Atom Format 1.0. Unfortunately, we can't complete chapter 8 until the Atom Protocol 1.0 is complete.
• Vacation. I'm leaving Wednesday afternoon for a trip the the NC mountains, probably my last vacation of the summer.