Blogging Roller

To design a website you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs.

To design a web application you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs.

To design a web service you need to know about XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-Eventing, WS-Reliability, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Notification, WS-BaseNotification, WS-Topics, WS-Transfer...

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Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby are writing a book on REST Web Services and they're going to develop it in the open on their blogs. If you care about web services of any kind, you're going to want to follow along.

It's fairly easy to navigate to your old blog entries on a Roller system, but we don't provide an archive page like some blog servers do. Today on JRoller.com, Alex Ruiz explains how to add a nicely styled archives page to your blog using Roller's "big calendar" macro.

By default Roller 3.0 provides provides Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 format feeds for each blog, but you can easily add other formats. In his latest blogs.sun.com post, Henry Story explains how to add an RSS 1.0 feed to your Roller blog using the new Roller 3.0 macros. 

We've got a new meeting place, Helios Coffee in the Glenwood South area of Raleigh. Please join us to talk blogging, podcasting, politics, tech or whatever else is on your mind.

Time: Tuesday Nov. 7, 2006 - 6:30PM
Place: Helios Coffee, 413 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC (map)

We deployed the Roller 3.1 codebase to blogs.sun.com yesterday so Sun bloggers have got Web 2.0 taggy goodness now. The rest of the Roller-using world will have to wait for Roller 3.1 to make its way through the Apache Incubator release process. Want to know more about 3.1, here's the Roller 3.1 What's New page.

But be warned. If you stand outside the Apache software factory waiting for Roller 3.1 to emerge onto the loading dock, you'll be somewhat disappointed. The next release due out is Roller 3.0 (here's the Roller 3.0 What's New page) -- we just got the votes to make the release so you can expect it in the next couple of days.

Pebble 2.0 is available. Pebble "is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool designed for individuals and small groups" developed by Simon Brown. No database required.

One of my rules for blogging is this. Don't blog that you are going to do X, Y and Z unless you are damn sure you are really truly going to do X, Y, and Z. Otherwise you come off as a quitter, a person who can't follow through on commitments. By the way, I'm going to run 5.8 miles today.