Raible Designs

Make Roller Better

Like Dave said:

There are lots of little problems with Roller's UI, lots of room for improvements, and lots of missing weblogging features. Make sure the issues that are bugging you get into Roller's JIRA issue tracker. Look at the list of issues that are not yet assigned to a release and vote on the ones that are most important to you. You can also view the currently most popular issues.

So help us improve Roller and the world will be a better place - or at least our part of the world will be...

I'm loving the comments feature.

I really like the comments feature because it's as if I have hidden treasures waiting for me on my site. Like the demanding, never-satisfied client, I now ask - can we add the last 20 comments feature like MiniBlog has?

Struts now produces XHTML?!

I logged this bug many moons ago (December 19, 2001) - and tonight it appears to have been fixed!! This is sweeter than all getout in my opinion. This means that adding <html:html xhtml="true"> to the top of your JSP when using Struts will render XHTML-compliant markup. I haven't tested it yet - thanks David Graham!

OS X 10.2.2 Update

Found at Mac Rumors:

The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20. [ learn more... ]

Veterans Day

My cousin Paul and I are the first men on both sides of my family that haven't been members of the Armed Forces. My father had to serve as he was drafted in his early twenties. His parents (Margaret and Joseph Raible) were career officers and served in WWII. My mother's father (Oliver Hill) was in the Amphibious Corps, which predated the Navy Seals. I thank all these men in my family and all other veterans for giving me the freedom I have. Thanks for making this country safe for my family and for my children.

Broncos vs. Raiders on Monday Night Football

Sweet! There's a great game on the tube tonight. Broncos vs. Raiders (a HUGE rivalry in these parts) in the 500th Monday Night Football game. Go Broncos!

Click on the cute little Broncos Cheerleader (Abbie) for some pictures from this weekend.

Macromedia's Contribute

Macromedia has released a trial version and QuickTime videos of it's newest app, cleverly named Contribute. It looks pretty cool, though I don't know many business types who want to edit/update their own website. They usually prefer to just have someone do the updates for them. I think it'll flop unless it's super cheap - like $50 or something.

Update: I found a good review here.

Update 2: Zeldman says $99 bucks.

Comments by Lance

Lance did some nice work on Roller this weekend and implemented the much-desired Comments feature. Nice job Lance!

It also seems that Eclipse 2.0.2 was quietly released on Friday (it says Thursday on the downloads page, Friday on the dev mailing list). This update does not appear to be available from Help > Software > Update Manager. Hopefully it will be soon. Does IDEA have an upgrade within the IDE feature?

Good Stuff @ Rebelutionary

Mike seems to have reduced his blogging frequency as of late, but when he does write, it's good stuff.

OpenSymphony has a new Wiki online, powered by SnipSnap. It should be useful for on-the-fly documentation writing and tip sharing. Already the WebWork Cookbook has moved there and got some extra contributions!

... and ...

For those of you not using IDEA, can your IDE do all this?

IDEA has always looked good to me and I agree that it's a great IDE. But I can't argue with Eclipse's price! And Eclipse seems to be getting a lot more users of late - I'll bet it ends up with more users simply on price. I tried talking with the IDEA folks a while back about discounted pricing for a one-man show. They said it sounded good, but no thanks. At least they responded. And I found myself only starting IDEA when I really needed it. I find myself starting Eclipse every time I edit a .java file. I also found this review of IDEA 3.0 on JDJ's site, and learned that IDEA 3.0 will be available for download tomorrow.

Add a Google Search to your Site

I got the idea from Dave and now I've implemented it on this site. To add one to your site, copy and paste the following code and adjust the site URL accordingly. NOTE: This is the XHTML Strict version, if you want a Transitional version, view source on Dave's site.

<form id="searchForm" method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"
 style="margin: 0; padding: 0" onsubmit="search()">  
   <input type="text" name="q" size="20" maxlength="255" 
       value="search this site" style="font-size: 11px"
       onfocus="this.value=''"  /> 
   <input type="submit" name="sa" value="go" 
       style="font-size: 11px; padding: 2px; line-height: 1" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function search() {
    form = document.getElementById('searchForm');
    form.q.value = form.q.value + " site:www.raibledesigns.com";
    form.submit();
}
//-->
</script>