Raible Designs

Roller 0.9.6?

I guess this means I should update my local CVS version of Roller and attempt to migrate this site. Maybe later - I've already worked 5 hours today - on a Sunday! It's disgusting - time to go watch the Broncos...

Dave's a workin'.

If you're subscribed to the roller-cvs mailing list - you can see that Dave is checking in stuff like a madman tonight! I think that's how most open source projects are successful - one guy writes it, works his butt off and everyone else tags along for the ride. Am I wrong? Let me know - but that seems to be how Struts got started by Craig. Notice that I said started - it's not how it is today.

XDoclet 1.2 Beta 1 Released.

I saw this a couple of days ago when I did a cvs checkout of xdoclet, but never mentioned it. Found via the rebelutionary:

Kevin beat me to the news that xDoclet 1.2.0 (beta 1) has hit the street. And yes, they're using JIRA now! *cheer* [kev's catalogue of this and that.]

We'd love to use XDoclet 1.2 in Roller, but I'm stumped on this issue. Any hints or tips are much appreciated.

Upgrading to Tomcat 4.1.12.

I attempted to upgrade this site to use Tomcat 4.1.12 a couple hours ago, but had to back it out when I found that it doesn't follow symlinks by default. I've been trying to figure out a way to turn it on, but I haven't figured it out yet. I did find this e-mail, which made me think I could just add allowLinking="true" to my roller context. I was about to jump in and try it out, and then I thought - maybe I should see if anyone is on the site. I found 400+ active sessions! Yikes... I doubt that many folks have visited today - have they? I just restarted Tomcat a couple of hours ago. Here's what I saw in the manager application.

Sometimes it's the little things.

I just checked out the latest version of Roller from CVS and found some very cool stuff. I especially like the [Edit] link at the end of each entry. I also dig the Ekit editor much more than I thought I would. The good news - I'm running it on Tomcat 4.1.12 (WinXP, JDK 1.4.1) - with no issues. Must be a good great web app to make such a smooth transition. Dare we say standards-compliant?! 564 out of 646.

Weblogging Standard?

You know what we need in Roller, MoveableType, Radio, Blogger, etc. is a "standard" for our data stores. How sweet would it be to be able to move your site from Roller to Radio without writing an import/export tool. The quick and dirty solution is to write a bunch of import tools for Roller, but the best idea is to unite the weblogging community into creating a common database schema, or whatever it may be.

Weblog publishing software.

When I read Matt's post earlier today, I assumed that TopStyle is an HTML editor that now has weblog publishing features. On closer inspection, it appears that is not the case? #

As Dave realized, TopStyle is an HTML editor - although it was born into existence as a kick-ass CSS editor. Personally, I'd rather use a good HTML editor such as Dreamweaver or TopStyle over w:bloggar to create/edit my posts. Of course, it'd be much easier for the average internet user to use one client to do everything, but I prefer Edit -> make XHTML compliant (the good editors help me with this) -> copy/paste into the Roller Editor UI -> click "Post to Weblog". As with w:bloggar, it saves me from browser crashes. Then again, I've typed this whole entry into the <textarea> in the editor ui...

Cool Roller Theme.

I spotted a new Roller theme this morning at PSQuad's Corner. I found this via Dave's post, whic mentions that some people are not happy with Roller. For not liking Roller, it seems that Pat has put some time into customizing it - or is this a theme that freeroller.net provides? The CSS even validates! Too bad the html doesn't.

XML-Based WYSIWYG Editors.

Maybe we should use the Xopus WYSIWYG XML editor for Roller instead of Ekit? It's pretty cool - at least the demo (might be IE/Windows only) I tried. The demo allowed me to type directly on the page and to change formatting of text simply by right-clicking. This screenshot seems to indicate a different editing mode than the one I saw. Best of all it appears to work in Mozilla and is open source. Release date? Currently we are working hard to release the final version before the OSCOM conference end of September.

Bitflux Editor also appears to be very cool - same type of concept with editing of an HTML page like you would in Dreamweaver. See the demo here. The good news? It is another open source project. The bad news? It only works in Mozilla. Nothing like shutting out 90% of Internet users.

All this good stuff found originally at Gerhard Froehlich's blog, who appears to have found it from Slashdot.

Ekit Certificate?

In response to Dave's question - How much is it?