Blogging Roller: Another prediction.

Another prediction.

I'm going to go out on a limb and make another prediction: Roller 0.9.9 will ship with a kick-ass (forgive me, I'm from North Carolina) Atom implementation that is not named after a washed-up SNL cast-off. Zing!

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 03:58PM Mar 01, 2004

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Comments:

Man, I'd hate to make your 0-for-2 today, guess I'd better get back to work!

Posted by Lance on March 02, 2004 at 01:35 AM EST #

you know I normally take a <rodney-king>cant we all get along</rodney-king> approach to things, so I wont Zing ;) But this is why more than one thing is good, each project has it's own needs and some toolkits suit some projects better than others.

Posted by Mark Lussier on March 02, 2004 at 01:21 PM EST #

Mark, I was just being silly. I'm a devoted fan of SNL (especially when it sucks), I like Adam Sandler, and I like Atom Sandler as well. I'd be happy to see the projects merge, but that decision belongs to you and Lance and you are right - having multiple choices is a good thing.

Posted by Dave Johnson on March 02, 2004 at 02:24 PM EST #

I'll let you guys in on a little secret: one of my goals is to "extend" the Atom API for Roller (such as using the old Template part for updating Roller Pages, or adding a WebsiteData management API).

When I get to it, I'm going to try first with Atom4J, then with Sandler. Whichever one extends the smoothest (easy, few headaches, completely arbitrary) wins, in my eyes.

First I'll have to write a client for this though (ugh).

Posted by Lance on March 02, 2004 at 03:06 PM EST #

In the nicest possible way: could any point me to a few sources on the Purpose that Atom fulfills? Why do we need it next to RSS? Why is it such a big deal for Roller to have Atom support?

Thanks, Jaap

Posted by Jaap on March 05, 2004 at 12:01 PM EST #

I think the motivation page from the Atom wiki sums it up pretty nicely.

Posted by Dave Johnson on March 05, 2004 at 07:27 PM EST #