Blogging Roller

I got to meet Will Glass-Husain today who, I was happy to learn, works on the Apache Velocity project. In case you don't know, Velocity is the template engine that Roller uses to generate blogs and feeds -- so it's near and dear to my heart, dispite it's many little deficiencies. I was a worried that Velocity was stagnating but Will told me the Velocity 1.5 is coming out soon with a load of good bug fixes and a promise of 100% backwards compatibility. We'll have to see about that. Velocity 1.5beta1 has been out for almost a month now.

I didn't bring my normal assortment of carry-on sauces, lotions, juices and pastes today so air travel was no problem at all. I made it to Austin and ApacheCon around two, checked in and made myself comfortable in the hackathon. Within minutes I was talking tech; bitching about my recent JSF experience with one of the MyFaces developers and discussing the upcoming Velocity release with members of the Velocity team. And hey look, there's the afternoon beer delivery. This is gonna be fun.