Blogging Roller

I'm happy to announce that my Roller talk was accepted for ApacheCon EU (June 2006). I'm slated for 10:30AM on day one (here's the full schedule). I'm giving basically the same talk as I gave at ApacheCon US, but I'll have to make some significant updates because Allen's been busy refactoring the Roller backend and the proposed Roller roadmap has changed pretty drastically since then (more about that  later). Here's the abstract:

Roller is the open source Java blog server that drives the popular Sun's employee blogs at blogs.sun.com, IBM developerWorks blogs, JRoller.com and numerous other blog sites. Currently making its way through the Apache incubation process, Roller is built on a host of Apache technologies including Struts, Velocity, Lucene, Jakarta Commons, XML-RPC and more. This overview, a primer for Roller users and contributors, covers the Roller feature set, architecture, lessons learned, project status and future plans.

Andi is already looking into travel arrangements. I think the stars might be aligned just right for a vacation in Ireland. The week after the conference is the Sun summer shutdown and the in-laws have bravely volunteered to watch the boys.