Blogging Roller

• Upgrading Jamaica's Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at 40
  "There's never really been any stigma associated with sharing or using the works of others [...] If anything, to most it's regarded as a compliment."
• The GPL and Software as a Service
  Closing the SaaS loophole "would have been a death blow for GPLv3, making it impossible to adopt"
• Since when the the 'P' in POJO come to stand for "Pretend"
  Interesting article, but in my opinion POJO is a loose colloquial term
• Diary of a CrazyFrench: CUPS sell out
  "I'd recommend starting to mirror everything just in case Apple pull the plugs"
• Pete Rowley: Free IPA
  "an effort to shore up the existing identity infrastructure such as kerberos, LDAP, Samba and RADIUS"
• Tom Daly: Sun pushes price/perf boundaries w/SPECjAppServer2004
  "The price/performance of this result using open source is compelling"
• Scott Oaks: Glassfish V2 posts new SPECjAppServer 2004
  "We used to be content with having a good result in terms of price/performance... Now, we're the raw performance leader."
• Asus Eee PC First Thoughts
  $250 laptop with Linux, OpenOffice, 16GB flash HDD and 10 second startup

I don't know why it took me so long to pick up on it, but Nicolas Chase has been publishing a very nice series of Atom protocol articles over at IBM developerWorks. Some of them make use of the Blogapps server from RSS and Atom in Action:

• Create a sidebar using an Atom service document: An Atom service document is for more than just telling readers where to find a site's feeds. This article shows you how to use this introspection document to create a sidebar that provides a window into everything your server has to offer. This article uses the Blogapps server, which supports draft 10 of the Atom Publishing Protocol 1.0 specification, but will be applicable to any APP 1.0 compliant server. To use the actual code, you should also be familiar with Java programming but you can apply the Atom concepts to any programming language.
• Manage a media collection with Atom: You might know the Atom syndication format as a way to provide blog entry information. But, did you know that in conjunction with the Atom Publishing Protocol, you can use it to manage media files? This article shows you how to create a Web-based media repository with Atom.
• How to use Atom's slug header when you publish content: One advantage of the Atom Publishing Protocol is the ability to not only retrieve information, but also to add or edit information. In this tip, learn to use Atom's Slug header to influence the final URL for this information. This tip uses the Blogapps server, which supports draft 10 of the Atom Publishing Protocol 1.0 specification, but is applicable to any APP 1.0 compliant server.

And by the way, I'm working on updating Roller, Blogapps and Propono to support the latest Atom protocol draft (#16). More about that later.