Blogging Roller

I've been so busy with other projects, my day job, vacation, and being a Dad that I haven't been able to do much Roller development at all. That's a shame, because we are so close to a Roller 1.0 release. We also need a bug fix release from the Roller 0.9.8 branch, but that is probably not going to happen until things slow down a bit. My development efforts have been at a near standstill, but I've been keeping an eye on Roller. Here's a round-up of recent Roller developments.

John Hoffman of Sun has been giving some thought to the Roller main page and has introduced an interesting sortable interface for blogs.sun.com. John laments the fact that Roller supports only MySQL. With a couple of code changes, Roller 0.9.8 can be made to support PostgreSQL. Roller 1.0 will support PostgreSQL right out of the box.

Lance has been working on improving Roller's search interface and making numerous other fixes.

One blogger tried to install Roller on JBoss and didn't get very far, but I'm not sure why because he does not provide any specifics. Andy Depue is also working on getting Roller to run on JBoss, and trying to get some help on the mailing lists.

I'm not sure why Roller on JBoss is such a pain, but blogger Jeff Sheets observes that Roller on Tomcat just got a whole lot easier thanks to the Roller Demo bundle. I called it the Roller Demo bundle because I'm concerned about supporting HSQLDB for "production" blogging. Should I be?

A couple of JRoller users have complained about the Roller editors recently, so when I heard about the FCK editor I took note. I'm playing with it now in my Roller sandbox, but I'm a little discouraged that it does not support Safari.

It's kinda cool to see a Business Week about a Roller blog entry, even if it doesn't actually mention Roller.