Blogging Roller: 5th anniversary of Blogging Roller

5th anniversary of Blogging Roller

Today is the fifth anniversary of this blog, which I started on April 11, 2002 to promote the Roller blog software that I had just finished writing.

Roller wasn't really ready for deployment at the time, so I started blogging using Userland Radio radio.weblogs.com. You can find my first post on Radio here FIRST POST!!! You can also find the original Roller 0.90 user guide on the old site, complete with screen-shots. A couple of weeks later, my article on Roller was published at OnJava.com and folks started to take notice of Roller.

Now, five years later, Roller has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become Apache Roller, blog-tech is my full-time job at Sun and I'm still Blogging Roller. Thanks to Roller users and contributors everywhere for helping to make this possible.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 05:40AM Apr 11, 2007

Tags: blogging java roller

Comments:

W00t! Where are the tee shirts?! Congrats, Dave. :-D

Posted by Skrocki on April 11, 2007 at 02:34 PM EDT #

I agree - where are the t-shirts?! I'll pitch in for some to hand out at ApacheCon.

Posted by Matt Raible on April 11, 2007 at 02:42 PM EDT #

Congrats! Dave your article inspired to follow the Roller project as an example of how to build a good Java web application. While I don't do java full time, only occasionally, I still follow the Roller project and you and Matt Raible's blogs are great sources of information. My first open source project contribution was the javascript buttons for the basic roller text editor. :)

Posted by Kurt Wiersma on April 11, 2007 at 05:00 PM EDT #

Dave, Thanks from me too for getting me involved. You continue to be an inspiration.

Posted by Anil Gangolli on April 13, 2007 at 02:02 PM EDT #

My first open source project contribution was the javascript buttons for the basic roller text editor. :)

Posted by è¦º on June 14, 2008 at 04:05 AM EDT #