Blogging Roller

I'm heading down to the D.H. Hill Library at North Carolina State University (go Wolfpack, my alma mater by the way) today help the folks there get started with Roller.

State chose Roller for campus-wide student blogs (> 30,000 students!) and the first order of business is to figure out how to hook Roller into State's WRAP authentication single sign-on system. The answer may be to develop a WRAP plugin for Acegi (the framework Roller uses for authentication), but I hope to also understand how OpenSSO technologies might fit into the picture.

Joe Gregorio: APP, OpenSearch and Microformats. Get used to seeing them; those small pieces loosely joined are the future of web services.

Joe's talking about the new Lucene Web Services API, which is based on Atom protocol (APP), OpenSearch and Microformats. It's very cool to see the APP already applied outside of the realm of blogs.

Ross Rader: Perhaps ATOM is the better way to proceed after all - at least those documents are developed according to a consistent, reliable and predictable process that I can count on from a business perspective.

As another Dave might say: bingo!