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I agree with Dave that Roller should allow users to specify a template for comments. Hopefully this template could allow all kinds of crazy stuff - like the current pop-up, the one on Sam Ruby's site and (my favorite) the one on Joe Hewitt's site.
Dave has done it again. This time, he's added automatic linkbacks to Roller - must be time to upgrade. It'll be interesting to see if a link to this post shows up on his site.
In other news, I've been struck by another annoying problem in OS X. Ever since I installed QuickTime 6.1, most of my apps crash when I try to open them. Safari and Finder are the ones giving me big problems the most. So, to recount, I'll probably be re-installing OS X for the 4th time this year. I haven't re-installed Windows this year, and I've only upgraded Linux. Keep in mind I only spend about 10% of my time in OS X. Maybe we just don't get along.
Well, it appears that moving this site to a new server was successful. If you're reading this through a browser on my site, it definitely worked. Cool - gotta love smooth transitions. I updated java.blogs tonight so they would start picking up my RSS again - delete, re-add seemed to be the only solution that worked. I only added my Java category, so if you want any other good stuff, you'll have to use other means.
My ISP, KGB Internet Solutions sent me a bill today - it's usually pretty cheap at $12 US per month. However, this month, they charged me an additional $28 for 3 gigs of extra bandwidth - Yikes! I'd better quit posting things for downloads eh? Should I make attempts to reduce my traffic. Nahh, I'll pass - I'll just buy more bandwidth! Keep the hits coming - I feel the love! I think I'll upgrade to their Silver package ($20 US) which has 5 GB of monthly transfer. It looks like it comes with a 100MB connection, which I thought I already had - but maybe not. I hope not, it'd be sweet to upgrade to a better package and get faster speeds too.
I also found this Servlet ISP list at servlets.com. Looks like KGB Internet got a 4.9 out of 5, and Dave's ISP (Kattare) got a 4.8 - obviously both great choices.
Getting this bill was quite humorous since Dave send me an e-mail this morning. In his e-mail, he suggested that I add a donate (via PayPal) button to my site. Good idea, but I don't think anyone would use it, and I hate to put off my readers. I'm thinking of donating to Dave for his great product, and also to FreeRoller for its great content.
Dave explains the history of Roller and how he started it all. Man - Dave had a a busy year eh? He brought new things into the world at an alarming rate - weblogging, Roller and Leo! ;-)
So, working in a vacuum without knowledge of weblogging, I invented weblogging. You know what I mean: I invented weblogging like Columbus discovered America. If you ignore the fact that indians, native americans, aztecs, etc. had been living in the Americans for thousands of years and had in fact built entire civilizations there, the statement 'Columbus discovered America' is a true one. So, I invented weblogging and now I'm in the process of pushing the aboriginal webloggers west and eventually into little reservations where they will no longer bother me with talk of <cite> tags, RSS 2.0, trackback, and other stuff that I will soon invent. This is totally fair of course, because I discovered weblogging.
I don't really know Jon, only that he sent me an e-mail about Hibernate's Reverse Engineering Tool. Anyway, he's now blogging and better yet - he's using Roller! Don't forget - I'm biased b/c I think Roller is the best thing to come along since sliced bread. Speaking of the RET, from the documentation, it doesn't even look like it exists - there's no instructions on how to run it??
Man, I wish someone would alter Middlegen to generate Hibernate-tagged classes. Erik Hatcher's been bugging me to do it - any volunteers?
I just downloaded the 3.0 version of w.bloggar - and it's got title support now! Very cool, maybe I can start posting to this site again without every looking at it. Let's hope this works!
After posting and adding title - I guess that doesn't work as nicely as I'd hoped. There is a title box and even a category drop-down, but I guess they don't work with Roller. Not yet anyway ;-)
I received the e-mail below from Andy Katz (no need to broadcast his e-mail) this afternoon. Messages like this make blogging worthwhile and the world a better place in general.
Date: Tue Dec 17, 2002 12:10:11 PM America/Denver Subject: thanks for the great site ... hello matt, i just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how much valuable and interesting information i find on your website every day! thanks so much for taking the time to put it all together. as you know, it's often difficult trying to stay on top of all the latest software and tools. you make it that much easier as well as providing unbaised feedback and commentary on all of the above. i look forward to visiting your site every morning.
AWESOME! I'm glad I could help and I'm even more pumped that you took the time to send me this e-mail. Thanks Andy, much appreciated. I feel the same way about reading Dave and Russell's sites - good stuff.
Lance jumps into the application configuration debate:
To comment on Jeff's continuing configuration quest, I would add my vote to trying out Betwixt/Digester as the engine. I used this to build the RollerConfig object (for Roller, duh) and it was stupid-simple. I spent a couple hours futzing around trying to get it "perfect" (Betwixt has some inclusion/exclusion rules that I was unable to get to do what I want) but it was unnecessary work. So Jeff, if you want an example, check out the Roller cvs for RollerConfig. The roller-config.xml is here if you want an example of that as well.
I thought Roller used the Castor-way I suggested, but nope, it uses Betwixt. Betwixt is a commons project, so it's got to be good, eh? I especially like the ease of reading, writing the XML files. From RollerConfig.java:
/**
* Read the RollerConfig from a file,
* as specified by an InputStream.
*/
public static RollerConfig readConfig(InputStream in)
{
try
{
BeanReader reader = new BeanReader();
reader.registerBeanClass( RollerConfig.class );
Object obj = reader.parse( in );
if (obj instanceof RollerConfig)
{
RollerConfig alpha = (RollerConfig) obj;
//System.out.println("RollerConfig readConfig:"alpha);
return alpha;
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Exception reading RollerConfig:" + e.getMessage());
}
return new RollerConfig();
}
/**
* Write RollerConfig to file,
* as specified by a String path.
*/
public void writeConfig(String path) throws Exception
{
FileOutputStream out = null;
try
{
out = new FileOutputStream(path);
this.writeConfig( out );
}
finally
{
try {
if (out != null) out.close();
} catch (java.io.IOException ioe) {
System.err.println("RollerConfig.writeConfig() unable to close OutputStream");
}
}
}
/**
* Write RollerConfig to file,
* as specified by an OutputStream.
*/
public void writeConfig(OutputStream out) throws Exception
{
BeanWriter writer = new BeanWriter(out);
writer.enablePrettyPrint();
writer.setIndent(" ");
writer.setWriteIDs(false);
writer.write(this);
}
One thing I noticed in this class is the long and painful-looking toString() method. How about a little reflection to improve that sucker:
public String toString() {
StringBuffer results = new StringBuffer();
Class clazz = getClass();
results.append(getClass().getName() + "\n");
Field[] fields = clazz.getDeclaredFields();
try {
AccessibleObject.setAccessible(fields, true);
for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
results.append(
"\t"
+ fields[i].getName()
+ "="
+ fields[i].get(this)
+ "\n");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// ignored!
}
return results.toString();
}
It'd be cool to have a feature where you could find/replace a string in all your weblog entries. This would be especially nice if you changed domains or found invalid links from months ago. Is this possible with SQL?