Blogging Roller

It's been a while since the BETA (over 6 months) but we now have a release candidate for Apache Roller 5.0 available for testing. This site is running Apache Roller 5.0 RC1 right now, as you can see in the itty bitty screenshot below:

Here's a What's New in Roller 5.0 page that summarizes what has changed since 4.0. One thing I forgot to mention on that page was that Roller now uses ROME Propono 1.0 for AtomPub and Roller 5.0's AtomPub support has been successfully tested with MarsEdit and Windows Live Writer.

I like the approach and wonder why XML RPC and JSON RPC don't work this way.

James Snell: Step one is to realize that HTTP is the envelope. You don’t need a special new XML data format, you don’t need new security token formats in custom must-understand headers, you don’t need special endpoint description languages that describe exactly how to tell your software development code to automatically generated client code for you. You just need a URI, HTTP, a request message and a response message.

Interesting essay by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on the huge shift we're experiencing in the computing/tech industry with wide spread adoption of mobile tech, social web and cloud computing.

Marc Benioff: Facebook’s success, as well as the rise of other new technologies like YouTube, devices like the iPhone and the iPad and models like Cloud Computing are evidence of a huge shift happening in computing — and it’s bigger than anything we have seen before. And although Microsoft is a casualty, it certainly is not the cause. This is the fundamental nature of our industry in which every 10 years or so a radical new paradigm of computing emerges. From mainframes (70s) to minicomputers (80s) to PCs and LANs (90s) to Cloud 1-the desktop Internet (2000s) to Cloud 2-the mobile Internet (2010+), we can safely say that the only constant in the last 50 years of computing is change. And no company or individual can escape the velocity of change of our industry.