Blogging Roller

I spent most of the weekend proofreading part II of RSS and Atom in Action, but I also spent some time  testing a new build of the Blogapps server and examples. It had been a while since I tested the blog apps with other blog servers, so I decided to install the latest versions of Movable Type (3.2), WordPress (2.0.1) and Das Blog (1.8.too.many.numbers). Movable Type took about 15 minutes to setup and Das Blog the same, but WordPress was the killer. It took me about three hours to figure out why it wasn't working and to upgrade Debian, Apache, PHP4 common and PHP4-MySQL to make it happy. So much for the famous 5 minute install.

Tim O'Reilly: I was just browsing the buzz game, and discovered something that surprised me. While the futures market still has its money on Eclipse, in the past year Netbeans has passed Eclipse in actual Yahoo! search volume.