Blogging Roller

AtomPub test post

Dave Johnson — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000

This is a test post created via the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023) to verify the tools/publish CLI end-to-end. It is a draft.

A bit of inline code and a fenced block to confirm code rendering works with the blog's SyntaxHighlighter theme:

public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello from AtomPub");
    }
}

And some JavaScript:

const greet = (name) => `Hello, ${name}!`;
console.log(greet("AtomPub"));

That's it — if you can read this as a draft in the Roller editor with the code blocks rendered cleanly, the round trip works.

The four device classes - QuirksBlog

Dave Johnson — Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:43:36 +0000

Worth a read:

The four device classes - QuirksBlog:

OCLC doing interesting things with OpenSocial

Dave Johnson — Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:47:24 +0000

And yes that's OCLC, not OSLC.

Rogue Gadgets: Ian Boston: OCLC recently launched WorldShare, an OpenSocial based platform that uses Apache Shindig to render Gadgets and provide access for those gadgets to a wealth of additional information feeds. It does not provide the container in which to mount the Gadgets but it provides a trusted and respected source of rendered Gadgets. This turns the OpenSocial model on its head. A not for profit organisation delivering access to vast stores of information via OpenSocial and the Gadget feeds. Suddenly the gadget rendered feed is the only thing that matters. The container could be provided by OCLC, but equally by members. OCLC has wisely decided to certify any gadget that it is prepared to serve.

Latest Links - August 12, 2011

Dave Johnson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:32:55 +0000

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave Shared: South Korea to abandon “real name” internet policy http://bit.ly/ofZ4c9 #fb 09:21:01 AM 12 Aug 2011

snoopdave Shared: Google Retires Android App Inventor, Open-Sources the Code http://bit.ly/o91WZa #fb 08:10:01 AM 10 Aug 2011

snoopdave will TaskTop Sync will beat OSLC link? http://bit.ly/q3g68x 07:09:00 AM 10 Aug 2011

snoopdave JIRA Mobile Connect looks pretty dang useful http://bit.ly/nlxwNS 06:32:01 AM 10 Aug 2011

Latest Links - August 1, 2011

Dave Johnson — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:00:01 +0000

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave RT @mraible: Happy 9th Blogiversary to http://raibledesigns.com: 3045 entries, 13,269 comments. Thanks for keeping all my memories Apach ... 12:35:12 PM 01 Aug 2011

mgile First day at the new, new office. Obligatory empty startup office pic: http://t.co/7oVDQjk 10:29:17 AM 01 Aug 2011

snoopdave Shared: Million Persona March on Google, Labor Day? http://bit.ly/qmAR5y #fb 09:40:01 AM 01 Aug 2011

Latest Links - July 30, 2011

Dave Johnson — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:00:01 +0000

Latest links, favorites and photos shared elsewhere:

snoopdave Shared: Flederhaus - An entire building of hammocks! http://bit.ly/oeEkp9 #fb 03:31:03 PM 29 Jul 2011

jukkaz So much for Java 7 then: http://t.co/7dMuDyV 05:06:33 AM 29 Jul 2011

ryanirelan New Ways of Designing the Modern Workspace http://j.mp/ob3Btu The comments are the best part. Read all of them. 11:37:39 PM 28 Jul 2011

Chris Hostetter: Don’t Use Java 7, For Anything shared 06:21:12 PM 28 Jul 2011

Latest Links - Sunday Feb. 6, 2011

Dave Johnson — Sun, 6 Feb 2011 09:02:58 +0000

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

snoopdave: beautiful photo: "24-hour view of the sky" http://bit.ly/hakUpS - 2011-02-01 07:50:01.0

snoopdave: lesson from "failures" of OpenID, XML and AtomPub: don't listen to bloggershttp://bit.ly/ig39yt - 2011-02-01 08:07:02.0

snoopdave: 2011 predictions on Agile, ALM and dev tools - latest in excellent series of posts by Tasktop's Mik Kersten #fb http://bit.ly/g89DIF - 2011-02-02 08:07:02.0

snoopdave: Oracle says the Hudson community needs to be "more open and equal" http://bit.ly/eLVTOJ - 2011-01-25 07:12:01.0

snoopdave: RT @rgardler: Hudson community votes 214 to 14 to drop TM & become independent. Community backed forking is good http://wmk.me/ii3rpY (v ... - 2011-01-31 07:29:11.0

snoopdave: RT @PaulSandoz: JAX-RS 2.0 approved http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5140 - 2011-01-25 07:08:53.0

snoopdave: Want to checkout Maven projects from SCM in Eclipse? Fix it yourself. http://bit.ly/eJk7Fw - 2011-01-28 09:02:02.0

snoopdave: RT @JazzDotNet: New jazz.net blog post: "Social Connector for Rational Team Concert at Lotusphere 2011" #ls11 http://bit.ly/fwviNX #fb - 2011-01-28 16:53:53.0

snoopdave: Changing my password on SourceForge and several other sites. If have an account there you should do the same. See also http://bit.ly/g1n2OJ - 2011-01-30 10:07:59.0

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

Shared: iPhone User? 90% Chance You?re On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance - Mon Jan 17 22:00:13 EST 2011

snoopdave: RT @BrianR: Colbert drops The Word on Wake County Schools, DISINTEGRATION [video] http://t.co/6mjZn4e” #fb - 2011-01-19 08:46:08.0

snoopdave: I checked in at The Rockford (320 Glenwood Ave) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/g7c6wL - 2011-01-19 18:30:13.0

snoopdave: SonaType survey says "lack of integration" is the biggest complaint about software dev infrastructure #oslc http://bit.ly/dHgyPP - 2011-01-20 08:30:02.0

snoopdave: Just blogged my experiences making Roller 5 work on JBoss 6 http://bit.ly/hSxH7q #fb - 2011-01-20 18:01:27.0

snoopdave: Jarvis says FB and Google war is about mobile, not social http://bit.ly/gwIdqn - 2011-01-21 08:36:01.0

snoopdave: Amazingly detailed map of the world built from Facebook relationship lines #fb http://bit.ly/f1iqfm - 2011-01-21 09:08:05.0

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Latest articles shared via Google Reader:

Shared: Roller 5 on multiple Java EE AppServers - Mon Jan 10 01:21:36 EST 2011

Shared: Why we shouldn't freak out about NSTIC. - Mon Jan 10 14:23:38 EST 2011

Shared: The Film Babble Blog Top 10 Movies Of 2010 - Tue Jan 11 17:01:53 EST 2011

Shared: MLK Day Special: Race. A Mistaken Belief? - Mon Jan 17 18:31:52 EST 2011

Shared: How I do a smart phone on the cheap - Thu Jan 13 17:58:27 EST 2011

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

snoopdave: starting to write up my Java EE 6 experiences w/Roller 5 http://bit.ly/fnHBVu - 2011-01-05 15:26:03.0

Shared: Open Source Is The New Shareware - Thu Jan 06 07:00:14 EST 2011

snoopdave posted a photo:

Works very nicely, at least for the short tests I have tried.
2011-01-07 13:30:48.0

Shared: Roller 5 on multiple Java EE AppServers - Fri Jan 07 17:02:13 EST 2011

snoopdave: Interesting comments on "Is JCR Dead?" http://t.co/c8bhmuX via @cmswire - 2011-01-08 12:57:43.0

snoopdave: off to see True Grit... hope we'll like it as much as my bro did http://bit.ly/fNUeic #fb - 2011-01-08 13:32:48.0

snoopdave: Finally, a Rubik's cube that I can solve! http://bit.ly/dJWCQw - 2011-01-08 16:44:56.0

snoopdave: Just ordered a Nexus S to replace my old, slow, call-dropping iPhone 3G http://www.google.com/nexus #fb - 2011-01-09 09:33:08.0

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:20:13 +0000

Latest links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr accounts.

Shared: Glacier, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons Again (2010) - Sun Jan 02 18:19:43 EST 2011

snoopdave: "Nobody wants an app for each content source" http://bit.ly/ijgACO - 2011-01-02 12:10:00.0

snoopdave: RT @sspeiche: Contributed #oslc service provider JUnit-based test suite http://tinyurl.com/2bdasvg more updates coming in the new year - 2011-01-04 08:20:34.0

snoopdave: No coffee and email is down - not a great way to start the work-year http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-18/ - 2011-01-04 08:29:39.0

snoopdave: RT @apache_roller: Apache Roller 5.0 RC3 files are available for testing http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/apache_roller_5_0_rc3 - 2011-01-04 08:33:41.0

USDA Enterprise IT Solutions: Blogging

Dave Johnson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:14:57 +0000

While reading the feeds the other day, I was delighted to see that the USDA IT department offers support for Apache Roller within the agency, below are the options. Wordpress MU is also supported.

Enterprise Solutions (NITC): Software As A Service

NITC offers a full service Blogging software service that can provide enhanced internal and external communication among management, operational and business staff, and the public. When this service is integrated into a web application, posted information is shared in a chronological fashion that delivers a high level of feedback and end-user interaction.

What's Included

Apache Roller Weblog™ or Wordpress MU™ software

Apache Roller Weblog
- Multi-node, highly available architecture
- Production and non-Production environment
- USDA eAuthentication protection available
- Customizable “theme” packs, including standard USDA templates
- User Accounts for site administration / content authoring

Wordpress MU™
- Multi-node highly available solution
- Production and non-Production environment
- Optional “add-ons” to add additional functionality to blogs
- Customizable CSS-based themes
- RSS Feeds

Link

James Snell on RESTful RPC

Dave Johnson — Mon, 3 May 2010 07:46:04 +0000

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.

Cloud 2-the mobile Internet (2010+)

Dave Johnson — Mon, 3 May 2010 07:30:00 +0000

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.

Latest links - Nov. 11, 2009

Dave Johnson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Mine, all mine (& theirs too) [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
"Sun has created a licensing option for every employee that simply shares ownership of everything that's posted equally between Sun and the blogger"
82 Social Media Policies
from the book Social Media Governance by Chris Boudreaux
OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government
Participating companies include Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems
Facebook eats away at Email usage
One of the motivations behind Google Wave?
Cubicle Muses - Wave's Web of Protocols
Nice illustration of Wave protocols by J Aaron Farr
A new architectural style called CREST
Congrats to Justin Erenkrantz, PhD
iPhone gets .Net app development
not a .Net VM on iphone; it uses a cross-compiler
Jazz Community Site - Jazz Team Blog - OSLC and Rational Team Concert
"let's look at what we would leverage from OSLC-CM in RTC to implement a mobile web application which allows us to search for change requests."
Jonathan Nolen: Shindig source repository visible in Fisheye
Nice way to view the Shindig SVN repo. Thanks to Atlassian

Latest Links: August 11, 2009

Dave Johnson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:12:00 +0000

Your blog still loves you
"it's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet."
ZDNet Asia: 'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun
"47,000 enterprise customers and a ferociously loyal customer base"
The Connections Blog: Full house! Lotus Connections 2.5 video demos
screen-casts for 8 of the Lotus Connections components
Chromium Blog: Google Chrome Developer Tools for Eclipse Users
"Set breakpoints, inspect variables and evaluate expressions from within Eclipse"
First impressions of Google Wave | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
"won't be ejecting existing enterprise collab tools from the workplace any time soon"
Shindig-based OpenSocial Container from Lockheed Martin
"written in Java and is based on open source projects such as GWT, Hibernate..."

Latest Links: OpenSocial and OSLC

Dave Johnson — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Stutzman on WUNC's the State of Things
Stutzman and others on the etiquette, the addiction and the future of Facebook
Is Twitter Really That Big?
40% of Twitter users haven't tweeted since 1st day, 25% not following anybody
YouTube - Towards Privacy-aware OpenSocial Applications
Talk by Kun Liu of IBM Research on privacy scoring and applications

Google I/O video - Atlassian and OpenSocial
using OpenSocial to connect enterprise apps and power developer dashboards.
Atlassian - OpenSocial Videos
Atlassian has gone ga ga for Gadgets

YouTube - What is New in Rational Team Concert 2.0 Web UI
from Dejan Glozic, Team Concert Web UI and Dashboards Lead
Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz
connects Rational Team Concert to your corporate collaboration infrastructure.

The Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative
creating open interfaces for software development services: requirements, change requests, user stores, test cases and more.
dW podcasts: Abrams, Zetie and Kerston on OSLC
Interview with some of the folks behind OSLC.

Latest Links - Roller, SocialSite, etc.

Dave Johnson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:04 +0000

How I ended up with Apache Roller
"I definitely recommend Roller for everyone that wants to have a powerful, stable and fast blog server."
Sitemaps XML template for Roller 4.x
"Roller makes it very easy by using the Velocity templating engine and exposing a lot of data via model objects
Apache Roller 4.0 theme upgrade from 3.1
"One of the reasons to select Apache Roller as my preferred blogging software was the excellent and free selection of themes from rollerthemes.com"

The Aquarium: SocialSite and Apache
"I'm finally catching up with Dave's post from last Friday... My very best wishes to SocialSite. "
Ya todo est inventado: Socialsite, an opensource social network.
"I am doing implementations of SS for the first time. This software is new, I've been working with this since very early releases."
Collaborative Thinking: Musings on Oracle/Sun re: social networking
On SocialSite "Oracle would clearly benefit by leveraging a distributed model for enabling other web systems with social widgets."

HTTP/1.1 status code activity diagram
An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes, given various headers
SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility
"the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation."
Business Tech - CNET News: Google uncloaks once-secret server
"Google has an obsessive focus on energy efficiency and now is sharing more of its experience with the world."

Latest Links: Sun and clouds

Dave Johnson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:00:04 +0000

Forbes.com: A Rorschach Test for IBM and Sun
"Even as Sun has stiffened into a slow-moving, self-entangled behemoth over the past decade, IBM has gradually shifted into the nimble mode of a start-up."

IBM's bid to acquire Sun might cost jobs - The Denver Post
"Sun is known for having a lot of cool technology but not much recognition in the market for it."

ZDNet.com - IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense
"One problem: There's a lot of software overlap here. In databases, IBM has DB2 and Sun has MySQL"

Javalobby - IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?
(in the comments) "Sun's energy would have been much better spent investing in writing proper Eclipse plugins for things such as Python/Groovy/Matisse/JavaFX/etc. instead of pushing their own IDE"

SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility
"the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation"

Atlassian Developer Blog - Customizing your cloud
"we've released support for running builds in the cloud with the Elastic Bamboo feature"

Tim Bray The Sun Cloud
"We're going to be rolling out a Sun Cloud offering later this year"

Latest Links #42

Dave Johnson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:00:02 +0000

Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch - Boing Boing
"The day we have national health care is the day that we unleash a wave of entrepreneurship the likes of which we've never seen before."

Ben Hyde - The Misery of Opportunity: Barry Schwartz on Paradox of Choice
"those who maximize a job choice did in fact capture significantly more income, but at a cost."

Jon Stewart creams Jim Cramer on the Daily Show
"I wonder if Rick Santelli will show his face on Stewart's set? Highly unlikely"

Unit Structures: NY Times Botches SNS Privacy
"The conclusion that Stross draws - that adults are now going to massively change their disclosure behavior because of young people - is as flawed as his 'privacy as anachronism' point."

Rich Bowen: More twitter blah blah blah
"To tell me that I need to define a goal for Twitter is somewhat like telling someone: you need to define a goal for conversation, and then every conversation you have needs to be working towards that goal."

Geir's Blog - Dalibor's "Nanny State" Argument?
"I hope I'm just misunderstanding what Dalibor is trying to say"

PC Pro blog: I'm sorry but Dreamweaver is dying
"Web 2.0 isn't an empty slogan, it marks a fundamental break with the past and Dreamweaver lies on the wrong side of it."

Latest Links: Sunday Feb. 22, 2009

Dave Johnson — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Charlie Rose - A conversation with Marc Andreessen
Great interview covering social networking and internet tech in general

Fred Stutzman: How Facebook Should Address User Rights
"If Facebook were a country, it would more accurately resemble North Korea or China than the United States."

The Angry Drunk: Scoble Just Doesn't Get It
"Social Networking is not Marketing; but the inability to grasp that fact is the defining characteristic of the New Media Douchebag"

Eclipse Plugin Central: plugins resource center and marketplace
"OSDE is the Eclipse Plug-in for developing OpenSocial applications"

Engadget: Texas Instruments and Wind River do up Android right
"what basically amounts to the ultimate Android device"

InfoWorld: Mozilla backs move to decriminalize iPhone jailbreaking
"Consumers should be entitled to use any software program they choose"

Engadget: Android Market allows returns, but not sexy stuff
"Google maintains the right to forcefully remove an app from your device whenever it feels like it"

Latest Links - Roller

Dave Johnson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:07 +0000

First Blog (Apache Roller) : Gerry's View
"I would like to complement Apache Roller on its ease of use, excellent documentation and low set up time."
Groovy Grails and Webby Things : Apache Roller 4.0 supports Groovy
Groovy folks finally discover support in Roller
Sun on list of 15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging
"That's 110,000 posts of promotional gold for Sun and they know it"
August 2008 Board Report - Apache Roller
Covers community health, status of our most recent release, work that has been done in the trunk and plans for new work
Introduction to Apache Roller
Presentation by Matt Raible on Slideshare
number 9: see me rollin, they hatin
Guidelines for running Roller 4 in a cluster
Using DTrace to Troubleshoot Roller (Japanese) - Jim Grisanzio
Wish I could read Japanese
GitHub repository search
Happy to find a couple of Roller plugin projects on Github

Latest Links - Open Source

Dave Johnson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Placating people with options [dive into mark]
"Google Project Hosting is and has always been a tool to fight license proliferation. It is only incidentally useful"
tecosystems - Google Code vs License Proliferation
"There is room in my philosophy for file based reciprocal licenses such as the CDDL, EPL, and MPL. While they may create islands of code, some of those islands are very large indeed"
Launchpad, by Canonical
Speaking of FOSS project hosting, LaunchPad looks very cool. Take the tour.
JavaFX, are we there yet? [kirk.blog-city.com]
"With this in mind, I'm pretty optimistic that JavaFX, being free and open, will become the preferred choice for building rich clients if..."
OpenJFX: Open Source sidebar
"Sun is committed to delivering enhancements to the JavaFX platform and to this end will continue internal development -- hmm... I don't understand the logic here
Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar
"almost all of the software stacks running on cloud computing platforms are open source, for the simple reason that proprietary software licenses have no provisions for cloud deployment"
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): The Death of Google's Patents?
"The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents"

Roller Mobile with iUI

Dave Johnson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:59:33 +0000

Roller Mobile
Originally uploaded by snoopdave

After spending a couple of hours with iUI this week, I've put together the beginnings of an iPhone style interface to Roller. So far, I've been able to do everything I need to do by making a couple of changes in Roller's struts.xml and adding two new JSP pages -- no Java code required (yet). This screenshot shows two of the three screens I have created so far.

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:00:05 +0000

InfoWorld 2008-07-07 Lab test: Climb aboard Ruby on Rails
Interesting that the best rated Ruby-on-Rails IDE is the one that is free & opensource. Go Netbeans!
ongoin Â· Atomic Monday
"Herewith some evidence, for the general tech public, that Atompub is a big deal"
InfoQ: AtomServer â€“ The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
"a distributed, publish-subscribe service is a great way to address resiliency and loose coupling of subsystems"
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: reddit goes open source
"Until now, the only portion of reddit that wasn't freely available is reddit itself"
OAuth for Google Data APIs
"we're proud to announce that all of the Google Data APIs support OAuth"
Google Code Blog: Protocol Buffers released as Open Source
"think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler"

Daily Kos: Cars After The Age of Oil
"We can switch to a new tech that is older and simpler than the Internal Combustion Engine - the electric horseless carriage was first created in 1830"
Wired.com: Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW
"VW has approved a plan to build a limited number of One-Liters in 2010"
SAS Solar Farm | New Raleigh, NC
"Our local 500 pound software gorilla is building a five acre, one megawatt photovoltaic solar farm"

Links - AFK edition

Dave Johnson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:47:11 +0000

Here's another link blog post. In this one I'll explain why my del.icio.us feed is full of guitar tabs. I've been spending some time Away From Keyboard and near to fretboard. Since my 11 year old son Alex is learning guitar I've been doing the same and making some good progress. I've noodled around on bass for years, but never spent much time with guitar. I've always known the basic chords, but that's about it. Now I've finally learned how to string and "sing" at the same time and so I've been looking for good, fun and easy songs to play. Here are the ones I've found so far, straight from my bookmarks feed:

Animals â€“ (House of the Rising Sun tab)
Connells â€“ 74-75 tab
Connells â€“ Fun & Games tab
Costello, Elvis â€“ (What's So Funny tab)
Creedence Clearwater Revival â€“ (Who'll Stop the Rain tab)
Creedence Clearwater Revival â€“ (Lodi tab)
Creedence Clearwater Revival â€“ (Have You Ever Seen the Rain tab)
Cure â€“ (Love Song tab)
Diamond, Neil â€“ (Solitary Man tab)
<a href= "http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/grateful_dead/friend_of_the_devil_ver2_tab.htm"> Grateful Dead - (Friend Of The Devil tab)
Grateful Dead - (Ripple tab)
REM â€“ (Driver 8 tab)

You can probably guess my age now

Here are a couple more kinda sorta related links from the feed.

Interactive Guitar chord explorer
Very nice Flash interface for viewing chords, playing them, etc.
Live review: R.E.M. drives the past into the present
REM "has come full circle, treating the old and new with the same vigor and precision"
YouTube - Connells @ Borders: 74-75
2000 or 2001, in Chapel Hill, NC

I bookmarked that REM review because we attended that show last week. We took a bunch of kids and had a blast. REM played a bunch of their very early songs like 7 Chinese Brothers and Pretty Persuasion. The kids (from 5 to 11 years old) danced like fools on pogo-sticks the whole time.

And finally, here's something here's something not in my bookmarks feed; the Epiphone G-310 I bought for about $230 last weekend.

Latest Links - misc

Dave Johnson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:00:30 +0000

It's time to catch up on blogging and I'm going to start by going through my backlog of links and adding some commentary, but not in this post; these are miscellaneous links that don't fit nicely into my other posts.

Slashdot | Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org
"If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs" -- and pump some money into OOo development
Headius: The Power of the JVM
"And while JRuby and Groovy will probably spend the next few months one-upping each other, we've both proven something far more important: the JVM is an *excellent* platform for dynamic languages. Don't let anyone tell you it's not."
SpringSource Blog - Open Source, Open Strategy
My 141 char summary: open source good, but we need money. we won't relicense existing parts, but we'll GPL the full-stack so we alone can ride it to the bank
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: GlassFish v3 just got embeddable
"GlassFish glassfish = new GlassFish(); glassfish.minimallyConfigure(8080);"
Derby: Using the bulk import and export procedures
closest thing to mysqldump in Derby land
Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
"it is time to include a simple, reliable basic replication feature in the core system"
Distributed Caching with Memcached
Nice how-it-works article on memcached.

Latest Links: Roller, REST and more

Dave Johnson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:07 +0000

Skrocki's Blog: WOOHOO Sun Blogs sees its 100,000th blog post!!!
Pat Chanezon made the first post, not sure who made the 100,000th
Mark Fortner: how to publish to Roller via Google Docs
"Google Docs 'publish' feature allows you to publish a doc as a blog entry."
Chandra Chan: Using wbloggar 4 with JRoller version 3
"using the new version of w.bloggar version 4.03"

Jean-Francois Arcand: Jersey 0.7 released...with a tiny taste of Grizzly Comet Support
"gives us a couple weeks and we gonna have something really amazing"
Earthly Powers: Jersey 0.7 released
"many additions and clarifications to the API" plus Comet support
NetBeans 6.1 RC2: Let the IDE Do The Web Services Plumbing For You
"brings support for web services from Google, Amazon, Facebook and others"

ZDNet: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013
"smaller businesses arenâ€™t even considering, while the giants are diving in head first"
Move Over Lotus Notes, SharePoint is Filling Yer Shoes
"What Microsoft makes look easy â€” can quickly become a nightmare in the making"
Joshua Marinacci: know of any good forum software?
Comments suggest JForum, LifeRay message board and other Java options

colmmacc: AWS, AppEngine and the future of data
coping with the "fallout of using a planet instead of a hard-disk"
Search Guy: Minion open source search engine from Sun Labs
search "engine that ships with the Portal Server and Web Server"
Unit Structures: Introducing Freedom
"I find myself desperately searching out places where I can be network-free"

Latest Links: open source, social networking and etc.

Dave Johnson — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:00:05 +0000

cgwalters - A software tsunami
"OpenJDK is finally changing that. Now, you can write a library using Java, it can be sensibly integrated with Free operating systems"
Countdown for IBM Project Zero | Reg Developer
"bringing the feedback typical of an open source project without any of the obligations to give the resulting technology back to the community."
Soviet-era JCP needs change, concedes top commissar | Reg Developer
Patrick Curran has reached a firm conclusion on his organization: "We have to change," he said. "No more smoke-filled rooms."
Glynn Foster: Why Our Governance Doesnâ€™t Work
"Thereâ€™s no substitute to JFDI - or improving our governance model so that it doesnâ€™t get in the way of suitably motivated people who want to contribute."

Skype Journal: Skype and the Social Network Stack
"We need a new stack to sort out social media's plumbing"
An Open Letter to American Express ~ Chris Pirillo
"You know, for all the buzz that FaceBook getsâ€¦ I get far more value out of Twitter."
buddypress - Google Code
"suite of plugins that will completely transform a vanilla installation of Wordpress MU into a fully functional social network platform"

App Platform Strategies Blog: Looking for SOA success stories
"SOA is not working in most organizations"
OLPC News: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days
"the end of a dream".
Atlassian Dev Blog - Maven in our development process. Part 4.
"Maven users need training."

Latest Links: Twitter and JavaFX

Dave Johnson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:00:05 +0000

As you can tell from the links below, I've been goofing around with the Twitter API and JavaFX. The Twitter API looks pretty nice and very easy to use. JavaFX looks cool to this old Swing geek, but I'm a little surprised at the state of the docs and the absence of apps. I expected more after the hyped-up launch last year. Oh, well. The Netbeans plugin is pretty nice. I'll stick with it and maybe I'll be able to squeeze a Twitter Client or at least a Java.net or O'Reilly article out of my late night JavaFX noodlings.

Twitter API docs
Documentation for the Twitter API
org.json Java API docs
Easy to use JSON library for Java
Sven Drieling, "JavaFX -- Beispiele"
Nice set of JavaFX examples, even if you don't know German
Introduction to JavaFX Script
Nice introduction to JavaFX in the German version of O'Reilly
openjfx: downloads
JavaFX documentation, tutorials downloads, demos, Netbeans plugins, etc.
Jim Weaver's JavaFX blog
Jim Weaver is the author of the Apress JavaFX book
JavaFX Script Language Reference
Reference for the scripting language, seems kinda spotty, w/lots of TODOs
F3 Classes
JavaFX class docs, out of date but I've found them useful

Daffodils

Dave Johnson — Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:39:39 +0000

Daffodils
Originally uploaded by snoopdave

It's still a little chilly around here, but the flowers and trees are starting to bloom.

Latest Links: Friday March 7, 2008

Dave Johnson — Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:00:05 +0000

snellspace.com: Contact!
"So Google announced it?s Contacts API? based on Atompub of course"
netzooid: Writing Your First AtomPub Service with Abdera
"This shows the much simplified server code base in action, so beware - this requires the latest trunk/ code. 0.4.0 should be out soon though"
Astoria: AtomPub support in the ADO.NET
"We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project Astoria"
Marc Hadley's Blog: Authentication in Jersey
"Actions on some resources require authentication and I need access to the name of the authenticated user in the resource method"
The Aquarium: Jersey 0.6 released
"the Jersey client API, enhanced JSON suport, and better integration of Jersey with IoC containers"
Carrot2 - Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine
"Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categorie"
MySQL Forums: Partitioning
The official discussion forum for those interested in or experimenting with MySQL Partitioning technology
Partha's Blog: MySQL Table Partitioning
Nice series of posts on table partitioning in MySQL 5.1
Simon Phipps: The Adoption-Led Market
"emerging approach which is rapidly spreading for smaller software projects and in my view is the future of all software acquisition"
Will Acquia ruin Drupal? | Open Source | ZDNet.com
"Acquia, a commercial version with all the bells and whistles, including venture capital partners, whoâ€™ve put in $7 million."
JPost.com | BlogCentral
Jerusalem Post is blogging with Roller!
triangletweetup wiki
Triangle Tweetup Attendance & information

Latest Links: March 2, 2008

Dave Johnson — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:41:03 +0000

Shindig Architecture: Java Gadget Classes
"an environment for serving gadgets, a run-time environment for the gadgets to operate in, and a gadget container (as well as OpenSocial support)."
Ming the Mechanic: Open social networks
"Social networks *should* be independent of any particular central website"
blogs.sun.com heap and cache sizes
"We can run BSC fine on a single machine (SunFire T2000) even when restarting everything from scratch, but we have a 3.6G jvm heap and 6G of additional memory allocated to memcached for caching"
blogs.sun.com traffic
"blogs.sun.com has over 1.6 million hits a day and runs on just 2 T2000 servers"
Newsweek: Why Spore Is Taking So Long to Get Right, pt.1
Can't wait to see this game
[ogb-discuss] Roy Fielding resigns from OpenSolaris Gov. Board
"Sun should move on, dissolve the charter that it currently ignores, and adopt the governing style of MySQL. That company doesn't pretend to let their community participate in decisions"
ThoughtPark: when open source goes closed
"what happens if more companies take their open-source product and develop them into closed-source offerings?"

Latest Links: JSF vs. REST

Dave Johnson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:27:08 +0000

I've been very happy with the choice of Struts 2 for Roller, but I still follow JSF because it's the Java standard. A couple of articles by Ryan Lubke about what's coming in JSF 2.0 got me thinking about JSF again.

Ryan Lubke's Blog: JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series, pt. 2.1: Resources
"Previous versions of JSF had no facility for serving resources"
Ryan Lubke's Blog: JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview, pt. 1: ProjectStage
"the JSF 2.0 EG has given a nod to Ruby on Rails' RAILS_ENV functionality"

One of my problems with JSF is REST. REST fans say JSF is inherently RESTless because every JSF request is a POST. JSF advocates say JSF can do GET and bookmarkable URLs if necessary and that's good enough.

Bill de hora on JSF and REST
"JSF is clearly not focused on or suitable for working in the REST style to the extent REST principles seem to be actively excluded from the design."
Gavin King on JSF and REST
"On these community sites that claim you can't build restful application with JSF. I mean it is total nonsense. It is not even remotely true."
Gavin's JSF bookmarkable URL example
In the comments thread of an anti-JSF story at The Server Side.

Fortunately, the plans for JSF 2.0 indicate that REST improvements are coming:

Java.Net TWik: JSF 2.0 Requirements Scratchpad
Mentions REST API (JSR-311) and navigation without using POST
JSR-314: JavaServer Faces 2.0
"Allow JSF application resources to be accessed via REST" and "Add support for REST (JSR 311)"

Unfortunately, it sounds like all they're planning to do is make it easier to create bookmarkable URLs and add some support for the JSF-311 REST API. Why can't the goal be to make JSF applications RESTful by default? Why can't JSF ensure that POST is only used when required by the application (not the framework) and JSF URLs are simple, clean and always bookmarkable.

Latest Links: Feb. 16, 2008

Dave Johnson — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:48:07 +0000

More on MySpaceâ€™s Open Development Platform - GigaOM
"made up of three APIs â€” primarily Open Social and extensions weâ€™ve added"
ZDNet.com: Progress report on the OpenSocial Web
Summary of latest OpenSocial news and hackathons from Dan Farber
Facebook to Punish Stupid Applications, Reward Good Ones - ReadWriteWeb
"Metered messaging based on user engagement could save the Facebook Platform from a growing sense of app fatigue"
Roumen's Weblog: Android plug-in for NetBeans
"the screenshots look promising"
Rob Williams' Blog: finally ditched LifeRay
"we have finally ditched Liferay in favor of JBoss Portal. So far so good. It is much more stable. The code base is not a rat's nest of untested Struts goop."
Indoor WiFi Signal Booster by Meraki
"Meraki Mini is a small, easy-to-use wireless mesh repeater."

Lots of latest links: social networking APIs and more

Dave Johnson — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:00:07 +0000

First, some links from open source projects I'm trying to follow. Check out the JMaki Webtop widget, it looks pretty useful. Now that I've got JMaki support in Roller, this could be the basis for some cool drag-and-drop blog layout. Wish I had time for that; I'm still trying to carve out some time to dig into the Abdera server framework.

jMaki Webtop
Cool iGoogle style portal interface via JMaki
JSPWiki: JSP Wiki 3 Design
JCR back-end, wiki spaces and more...
Abdera Server Implementation Guide
"The Abdera Server module provides a framework for constructing Atom Publishing Protocol server implementations."

I'm also following OpenSocial and Shindig (the reference implementation of OpenSocial) pretty closely, but thus far have not had time to dive into the code. There's lots of activity on the Shindig list, but thus far there's no server-side and security is still up in the air -- both are pending change to the spec itself. Marc Cantor has an interesting perspective on the OpenSocial.

ShindigStarted - hyves_api - Trac
"a small guide on how to get started on Shindig."
CNET Mark Cantor: Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop
"We all hope that MySpace, Bebo, and others will open up and go beyond the original scope of OpenSocial to lay the groundwork for a truly open world of social networking."
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/kickapps-publishes-api-kit-adopts-facebook-and-opensocial-platform- standards/">KickApps Publishes API, Adopts Facebook and OpenSocial standards
"KickApps has adopted Googleâ€™s OpenSocial developer platform standards and is working with Facebook to adopt that companyâ€™s standards as well."

I'm also following Facebook. While Google and friends scramble to catch up, Facebook Apps are getting easier to write, thanks to a new JavaScript API, and easier to deploy thanks to Amazon Web Services.

Facebook Extends Platform to the Web - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
"This is a huge step in Facebook extending their platform beyond the Facebook.com domain and letting people leverage the power of the social graph"
JavaScript Client Library - Facebook Developers Wiki
"Applications that use this client library should be configured to load in an iframe, not be rendered with FBML"
Facebook JavaScript Client Library
"This JavaScript client library allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site and makes it easy to create Ajax Facebook applications"
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS For Facebook Applications
"we've teamed with Facebook to collect all of the resources that you need to be the next big success story in one convenient location."

Personally, I really like the idea of the web itself as the social network and your blog as the home for your personal profile. So, I think the new Social Graph API is a step in the right direction, as is the blog-based Distributed Social Networking (DiSo) project.

BuzzMachine:The internet is the social network
"The internet doesnâ€™t need more social networks. The internet is the social network."
Social Graph API - Google Code
Project homepage
Google Social Graph API Released on Dion Almaer's Blog
"Would you like to be able to make a quick call to get a JSON response that ties together a social graph made up of resources available on the Web?";
diso - Google Code
"DiSo (dee â€¢ zoh) is an umbrella project [for] as Chris puts it: 'to build a social network with its skin inside out'"
The Existential DiSo Interview on Vimeo
Factory Joe interviews himself re: Distributed Social Networking

And, I'm happy to see support for Twitter-like microblogging in Wordpress and Facebook like activity streams from Movable Type.

Introducing Prologue: WordPress.com
"Weâ€™re fans of Twitter around here, [but] while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more"
Building Action Streams - MovableType.org
"framework for collecting your actions from services around the web into one place for you to share back out as you see fit."
Action Streams | Plugin Directory | movabletype.org
"aggregate, control, and share your actions around the web "

And to wrap up: maybe I don't need to worry about the intersection of Blogging and Social Networking at all. Maybe there's no need to following all these APIs. Maybe the hype has peaked and Facebook and friends are about to go the way of the CB radio. Apparently, folks aren't spending quite as much time Facebooking as they used to:

ZDNet.com: Ohmigod! Social networkers just canâ€™t take it any more!
"it is entirely possible that people are beginning to question just how much time they spend socially networking, rather than socially living."

Latest Links: social networking platforms and more...

Dave Johnson — Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:39:06 +0000

First, some social software links.

BuddyPress â€” Creating a Social Network based on Wordpress MU
"There is talk of BuddyPress and DiSo essentially being the same thing. DiSo, from what Iâ€™ve read so far, is all about distributing your user-generated content first using Wordpress as the central tool. BuddyPress is more about turning Wordpress (MU in fact) itself into its own niche social network."
Elgg: the open source social networking platform
"Elgg is an open-source social networking platform. It offers blogging, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well"
Cisco's Social Networking Strategy Comes Into Focus - ReadWriteWeb
CISCO's Entertainment Operating System (EOS) is a "platform that will be used to deliver video and other multimedia content to online community properties" with "social networking and content recommendation"
BadMagicNumber: Shipping software
"Custom vertical social network, with feed integration" - based on Java, ROME and PostgreSQL
The Blog Squad: your music. your friends. your life.
"Social music network" with blogs powered by Roller
IBM demos â€˜On Demand Workplaceâ€™
"Employees have their own profiles based on content and function. Personalization is also allowed via imported Google Gadgets and RSS feeds" with screen shots
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
"The most-hyped site right now, Facebook, is the 'Iron Chef' of the Internet."
Micro Persuasion: Reader Integrates Google's Stealth Social Net: The Address Book
"Google Reader became the latest Google service to leverage the Gmail contact database and become more social."

And second, some feel-good PHP, Rails and Linux links.

Michael Kimsal: Continued sad state of PHP development
"with every release also comes fears of tiny, sometimes undocumented, changes that break existing code, and often for no solid reason"
ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)
"If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average."
Linux defector says RHEL zero, Sun Solaris hero
"Solaris ultimately has a lower acquisition cost because it includes features that users are likely to purchase separately in a Linux environment."

Latest Links

Dave Johnson — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:00:07 +0000

Today, I've got a couple of additions to my powered-by-Roller list:

GMJ Designs : Apache Roller 4.0 Released
"I love the interface and it works great."
Toast Technology Blogs : Weblog
SOA and business portal consultancy blogging with Roller
Limlom.com company blog
Business solutions and J2EE consultancy blogging with Roller
Biblical Recorder journals
Blogs and Baptist Planet all powered by Roller

More about the opening of the Social Networking platforms of the world:

Dare Obasanjo: Thoughts on the Opening of the Facebook Platform
"looks like Facebook plans to assert their Intellectual Property rights on anyone who clones their platform"
OpenSocial API Blog: Let's get this Shindig started
"We're thrilled to tell you the initial commit to the Shindig repository is in"
Ruminating on DiSo and the public domain
"Iâ€™m hopeful about projects like Shindig that call themselves â€œopen sourceâ€ and are able to be sponsored by stringent organizations like the Apache foundation. But..."

And some more about the intersection of corporate interests and community open source:

InfoWorld: Open source and the corporate elephant (FOSS.IN coverage)
Danese Cooper: "Having a well-read blog is the best defense you can have against any problems you may encounter"
eWeek: Sun Open-Source Support Questioned
"The only reason anyone should be surprised by anything Sun does with [the open-source projects] it controls is because that person has fundamentally created an expectation that access to source code meant more than just thatâ€”and that is a flawed assumption."
Reg Developer: Bruce Perens on the OpenDS spat
"In general open source is only going to work if you let it be a community led project. Sun has had a hard time learning this, and some of their open source projects have had a hard time getting outside contributors, because Sun has insisted on owning the [project]"

Latest Links: Feedsync, AtomPub for SOA, OpenSocial and more

Dave Johnson — Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:00:10 +0000

snellspace.com: Sync!
"Within the course of implementing several Atompub servers, the issue of â€œfeed synchronizationâ€ has come up repeatedly"
Paul Fremantle's Blog: A new kind of (SOA) Registry
"as we looked at the REST space, we kept noticing how close the [AtomPub] is to our needs"

OpenSocial - Berlin Web 2.0 Expo
Google API evangelist Pat Chanezon's OpenSocial presentation
opensocket - Run OpenSocial Gadgets in Facebook
An OpenSocial container written as a Facebook application.
Ruby on Rails: OpenSocial container plugin 0.0.1
"This is a very early version, but it is under very active development "

IBM's Carol Jones on Web 2.0 Research and Collaborative Software
Redmonk video discussion of Lotus Connections, Dogear, internal/private vs. external bookmarking
Wayne Horkan's weblog eclectic: Weblog language translator
With Roller specific functionality. Based on JavaScript and Google translation API
ZDNet.com: Social nets and identity fragmentation
FaberNovel Consulting has mapped out some trends in social networking and digital identity"
Postgres at Hi5: June 2007 user group preso
How unique features of PostgreSQL helped Hi5 scale (PDF presentation)
Scaling Java and PostgreSQL with Hyperic
Another perspective on PostgreSQL scalability at Hi5 (PDF presentation)
Skrentablog: Scaling Facebook, Hi5 with memcached
"discussion of high volume [sites] using memcached as a critical scaling tool"

Latest Links: Android, OpenSolaris and misc.

Dave Johnson — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:00:03 +0000

Roy Fielding [ogb-discuss]: please dissolve the Desktop Community
"there is absolutely no reason for this organization to exist if all decisions are going to be made by Sun."
Ian Murdock [ogb-discuss]: re: please dissolve the Desktop Community
"You have to be joking? I don't even know where to begin.. This is like Robert's Rules of Order run amok"
Jim Grisanzio: Two Great Linus Quotes
"(1) one person or company shouldn't control the entire community, and (2) the real value of community development comes over the long term and results from many small contributions, not one big one."

Ed Burnette: Sun/Google Android â€œfightâ€ overblown
"Iâ€™m here to tell you, itâ€™s all bunk"..."However Google did make one big mistake with Android"
Slashdot: Google, Sun Headed for Showdown Over Android
Pure FUDtastic speculation based on Stefano's blog post
robilad: QOTD: Google's license for the Android SDK
"you may not extract the source code or create a derivative work of the SDK"
Javalobby: Is Google the New Microsoft?
Dalibor's comment: "Google will keep Android as proprietary as they can for as long as they can, while letting people believe something else"

David Heffelfinger: Eclipse Veteran Switches To NetBeans
"NetBeans has now surpassed Eclipse in usability. Count me in as a new convert."
Stuck in the middle : Weblog
Rickard Oberg is blogging at JRoller.com again
Alan Burlison's Blog: How to leave Facebook
"try mailing them, quoting the clear precedent they have set by closing my account"
Symphonious Â» Why Support OpenSocial?
"However, if OpenSocial gets support outside social networks it has the possibility of attracting developers who actually care about their users, not just their advertising profits and install count"
ZDNet: Firefox 3 Beta 1 has landed
"Improved performance with more than 300 memory leak fixes."

Fall morning

Dave Johnson — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:37:16 +0000

thanksgiving-2007
Originally uploaded by snoopdave

Happy Thanksgiving, turkeys.

Latest links Nov. 12, 2007: Glassfish, OpenSocial and more

Dave Johnson — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:23:08 +0000

Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media
Best podcast ever

The Aquarium: GlassFish Interim Governance Board - Now Complete
"The complete roster is Tony, Greg Luck (Wotif.com) and Pierre Delisle (Google), and Simon and myself (Sun)"
Bistro!: GlassFish/SJS AS in production - which bundle, which profile, ...?
Explains differences between developer, cluster and enterprise profiles
GlassFish Podcast: The GlassFish Podcast
Finally, a Glassfish podcast! Props to Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine
Apple - Downloads - UNIX & Open Source - GlassFish
Download Glassfish V2 directly from Apple
Red Hat and Sun Collaborate to Advance Open Source Java Technology
"Red Hat has signed Sun's broad contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-led open source projects."

Megginson: First looks at OpenSocial: part 1 (URLs)
Lists the URIs for the AtomPub collections available in OpenSocial
Megginson: First looks at OpenSocial: part 2 (members and friends)
How OpenSocial members and friends are represented in Atom format
Megginson: First looks at OpenSocial: part 3 (activities)
How OpenSocial activities are represented in Atom format and manipulated via AtomPub protocol
Megginson: First looks at OpenSocial: part 4 (persistence data)
How OpenSocial persistence is implemented via AtomPub protocol
Google: OpenSocial Container Sample
Shows "basic demonstration-level OpenSocial container can be implemented"
Dare Obasanjo: OpenSocial Tech. Overview and Critique
"Despite these misgivings, I think this is a step in the right direction. Web widget and social graph APIs need to be standardized across the Web."

snellspace.com: Notes, Part 2
"lots and lots of things that can be modeled as collections of web resources"
netzooid: Building Services with AtomPub
"While APP is not the one true protocol, I think I?m hooked"

Latest Links Oct. 31, 2007 - OpenSocial edition

Dave Johnson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:00:09 +0000

Another batch of social software related links today, but today it's all about Google's new OpenSocial APIs (link to go live tomorrow). I waded through 20 or so posts today and the links below are my favorites. Gotta say, I'm really looking forward to getting the details tomorrow, understanding how Roller can play and seeing how AtomPub fits into the picture -- and I'm assuming it does since GData has been mentioned (see the Brady Forrest link below). After reading Marc Andreessen's post, which is the first link below, I think it's possible that Roller could act as both a Container and as a provider of Apps for other Containers. I wonder, could OpenSocial provide the UI widget API that Roller needs? And, will Roller's rather limited user profile data be enough to allow Roller to act as a Container? If so, I might be doing some late night hacking this weekend.

Marc Andreessen: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
"An open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: Containers -- social networking systems and... Apps -- applications that want to be embedded within containers"
Brady Forrest: Google Announces the OpenSocial API
"The open API will have three parts People, Storage [and] Activity stream. All of these calls will have a GData counterparts"
Fred Stutzman: On OpenSocial
"It's unfortunate that Google, rather than a standards body, is at the center, but perhaps this will outline a standard way forward"
Danny Ayers: Google's OpenSocial coming tomorrow
"Will this stuff be truly open, usable as linked data (with appropriate authentication) or will it still be hogtied within those partners' environments?"
Valley Wag: What OpenSocial will look like on LinkedIn
"Here are screen shots detailing how one such partner, LinkedIn, plans to incorporate apps"

Latest links - Oct. 30, 2007

Dave Johnson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:37:00 +0000

Some reading on Facebook and enterprise social software from my del.icio.us bookmarks collection:

Tim Bray: The Intimate Internet
Bray on Facebook: "Twitter hits that 80/20 point, bringing me that news without all the Facebook bullshit and lame groups and dorky apps and stupid ads and data lock-in. "
Fred Stutzman: The Directionality of Social Network Platforms
Stutzman on Facebook: "the ecosystem needs more than fluff, especially if we're going to start talking about the "social operating system."
Phil Windley: What's wrong with Facebook
Windley on Facebook: "social Webs will require similar attention to the structure that emerges from social activity, not nagging people about it";
Doc Searls: Too much face(book) time
Searls on Facebook: "If you're waiting for me to respond to a poke or an invitation, or a burp or any of that other stuff, don't hold your breath."
Read/Write Web: Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy
"The [products] remain complex and broad in scope - which in many respects goes against the grain of simple and easy-to-use web 2.0 products."
Personal InfoCloud: The State of Enterprise Social Software
"Nearly all of the enterprise software product companies are claiming understanding of Web 2.0, but none execute well on it"

Susan Constant

Dave Johnson — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:10:42 +0000

A replica of the largest of the three ships that brought English settlers to Jamestown in 1607.

Susan Constant
Originally uploaded by snoopdave

Latest Links and commentary

Dave Johnson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:45:08 +0000

I haven't been bookmarking things in del.icio.us quite as often as I used to, for a variety of reasons, but I still do about 2-3 links per day. So I setup my FeedPoster to post my latest links to my blog each day as a draft post, which I can edit and post later if I want. So here are my edited links from the past week with some added commentary to make them a little more interesting (hat tip to Rafe Colburn).

Atom protocol "features" extension

I try to follow the Atom community pretty closely, but sometimes I fall out of the loop. For example, I missed the discussion on James "Mr. Atom" Snell's important new extension proposal for Atom protocol features, which will enable blog servers to declare what features they support. For example, Roller could inform blog clients that you can enable/disable comments for each post, limit comments to N days on, "pin" a blog entry to to site's main page (if you are an admin) and more. Hopefully, we can get blog server developers to agree on a common set of features and blog client developers to support that set.

Publishing critical info with Atom

And I had to bookmark James Snell's excellent and important article Publish critical public warnings on the Web, with the sub-title "Atom publishing can provide a powerful and flexible way to distribute critical, life-saving information."

Sun Portal's blog porlet, powered by Atom protocol

This next Atom link comes from docs.sun.com. It's some documentation for the Sun Portal Server 7.1 - Blog Portlet. I did not realize that the Sun Portal blog portlet uses Atom protocol to enable publishing to Roller. It was developed and tested against Roller 3.1, so it probably does not conform to the final Atom protocol.

What to call Atom protocol?

And finally, folks are wondering what to call Atom Publishing Protocol. Is it APP or Atompub or Atom protocol? Ian Bicking says Iâ€™ve decided to make a conscious effort to call it Atompub from now on." I don't have a strong opinion, but I do think APP is to vague to be useful.

Lightweight image editors for Mac

I've got a copy of Photoshop Elements for the Mac, but I really hate to have to start it up when I want to crop or resize an image. So I twittered about it. Ryan Irelan pointed out ImageWell "the Free and Lean Image Editor". Rich Sharples recommended Skitch, a Web 2.0-ish desktop app that makes it easy to snap, draw and share images from your desktop. I'm on the waiting list for an invite. On my own, I found Seashore, which is a Gimp based open source image editor Mac, one that does not need X11, and it's pretty light-weight. I'm not ashamed to admit, I love the Gimp.

Whew! I've got a couple more links but my lunch break is over so there you go.

Latest links, Aug. 13, 2007

Dave Johnson — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:20:55 +0000

Dare Obasanjo: A Proposal for Social Network Interop. via OpenID
"This is where OpenID Attribute Exchange can be put to use" and "Why This Will Never Happen"
The Open Road: Free versus paid support in open source
Matt Asay: "you're better off paying a little money for professional support"
The Unix Guardian--Q and A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy
"mass customization of operating systems is going to be possible for those operating systems that are open source and repository driven"
Miles to go: First JRuby on Rails App in GlassFish V3
"the exact steps to deploy your first JRuby application in GlassFish V3"
SourceKibitzer - Interview w/Lars Trieloff of Mindquarry
e.g. "Who are the main competitors of Mindquarry and why are you different?"
Jonathan Schwartz: The Internet vs. Stone Tablets
"I'd love it if we one day eliminated the term "blogging" from the web lexicon"
Sam Ruby: WordPress, AtomPub, and PHP5
Sam says he'll help Wordpress implement APP, but only for PHP5
Atomojo: complete Atom Publishing Protocol stack
APP server based on Restlet API and APP client for Firefox
snellspace.com: URI Template Update
Looking pretty dang useful, w/Java implementation too
Progress on Redhat's IcedTea OpenJDK project
"I hit a major milestone today as Swing & Java2D work!"
The limitations of JSON
Interetsing JSON vs. XML vs. RDF post with plenty of comments
MPX: The Multi-Pointer X Server w/multi-touch
"Now I've gone one step further and added support for multi-touch displays"
Google Pack Adds StarOffice
"The software normally costs $70, but it's available for free in Google Pack"

Latest Links - July 14, 2007

Dave Johnson — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:00:01 +0000

Upgrading Jamaica's Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at 40
"There's never really been any stigma associated with sharing or using the works of others [...] If anything, to most it's regarded as a compliment."
The GPL and Software as a Service
Closing the SaaS loophole "would have been a death blow for GPLv3, making it impossible to adopt"
Since when the the 'P' in POJO come to stand for "Pretend"
Interesting article, but in my opinion POJO is a loose colloquial term
Diary of a CrazyFrench: CUPS sell out
"I'd recommend starting to mirror everything just in case Apple pull the plugs"
Pete Rowley: Free IPA
"an effort to shore up the existing identity infrastructure such as kerberos, LDAP, Samba and RADIUS"
Tom Daly: Sun pushes price/perf boundaries w/SPECjAppServer2004
"The price/performance of this result using open source is compelling"
Scott Oaks: Glassfish V2 posts new SPECjAppServer 2004
"We used to be content with having a good result in terms of price/performance... Now, we're the raw performance leader."
Asus Eee PC First Thoughts
$250 laptop with Linux, OpenOffice, 16GB flash HDD and 10 second startup

Roller Strong #5

Dave Johnson — Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:51:51 +0000

This week in Roller Strong, I've got some status on the 4.0 and 3.1 code bases and note about Roller Weblogger vs. Roller Planet.

Development continues on the Roller 4.0 code base, but we're essentially feature complete and focusing on minor improvements and bug fixes. Allen worked to clear bugs and improve bootstrapping. I worked to update Roller's Atom protocol (APP) implementation to use the final APP namespace URI and to pass Tim Bray's latest Ape tests. I wrote up my <a href= "http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/atom_protocol_exerciser_ape_setup">experience with Ape here on my blog.

At Sun, we've been testing the new Roller 4.0 "EZ install" work and doing some additional work to make 4.0 even easier to install in Glassfish. Manveen Kaur created a Glassfish Update Center Module for Roller that automatically downloads and installs Roller with almost no user-interaction. She wrote up instructions to help others <a href= "http://weblogs.java.net/blog/manveen/archive/2007/06/creating_a_glas_1.html">create and <a href= "http://weblogs.java.net/blog/manveen/archive/2007/06/testing_your_up_1.html">test Glassfish Update Center Modules.

We're also preparing some 3.1 fixes. All of the <a href= "http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/200706.mbox/%3c8fb9ac720706302051n59e525d0ua850e48ba5b2a62a@mail.gmail.com%3e">issues reported against Roller 3.1 have been fixed and we're just about ready to make a fix release, which we'll call 3.1.1.

And finally, a note about the project. Since 3.0, we've reorganized the Roller code base to reflect the fact that Roller is not just a blog server. Roller is a project that produces both a blog server called Roller Weblogger and a planet server called Roller Planet. For example, the Roller interface is gone and replaced with Weblogger for the blog server and Planet.

Using the word "Weblogger" reminds me of an unfortunate incident that occurred back in 2002. Not all of my Roller memories are pleasant ;-)

Roller Strong Disclaimer: this is a personal blog and I do not speak on behalf of Sun Microsystems or the Apache Software Foundation.

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Dave Johnson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:36:59 +0000

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Ross Mayfield: Lurching Legacy into 2.0
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Identity Management Buzz: Web 2.0 Meets Directory
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REST, Atom, APP, Web3S, and An Open Invitation To Prove MSFT Wrong
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