The most annoying thing about my Mac (G4 Titanium Powerbook) is that it only has 1-button on it's built-in mouse. This is especially annoying because I can plug in a two-button mouse and it is recognized and usable by OS X. Why didn't they include a 2-button mouse by default? My wife (a very savvy Windows user) hates it so much she refuses to use my laptop.
This morning, I found an article (via MyAppleMenu) about Apple's history with the one button mouse and the possible move to a 2-button mouse.
So while Appleâs decision to go with a single button was one of the many choices that made the original Mac such a groundbreaking machine, itâs time for Apple to reconsider.
Longtime Mac devotees may disagree, but an official Apple two-button, scroll wheel-equipped mouse has, in fact, no apparent drawbacks. [1 Button, 2 Or 3?]
I upgraded this site to use the latest Roller version and everything appears to be humming along rather nicely. I did run across one issue in that I had to re-number all my Blogrolling bookmarks. It appears the priority now has the opposite effect it did in the last release. I also somehow (I don't remember updating it) managed to set my homepage to the Contact page when testing everything, so I don't know if that's an upgrade glitch or human error. Probably the latter, updating it via the Editor UI fixed the problem (after I downgraded and the problem was still there!). Update: it appears there is a bug in this release, where only pages that don't have an underscore (_) show up in the drop-down of available homepages. This bug has been documented in JIRA.
BTW, the blogs are rated by update frequency, and I have some new ones to add soon. Since I'd like to keep this list at a reasonable size, the once-a-week updaters will be gone. I've been using NetNewsWire lately to read blogs - so I'll still be reading, just not referring.
I especially like the new referers feature, (Dave Rules!) which can be called using macros.showReferers(), macros.showReferers(max) or macros.showReferers(max, maxWidth). To get rid of the dot to the left of each link, simply add the following to your site's stylesheet:
ul.rReferersList {
list-style: none
margin-left: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Enjoy!
I'm conducting an evaluation of wiki's to use on this site. I'm taking a look at Gareth Cronin's Very Quick Wiki, Russell Beattie's SimpleWeb, and Ghoot Emaho's Chiki. My only criteria is that it must be an Open Source Java-based implementation. If you know of any others, let me know.
Update 1: I got a note from Ugo Cei of Be Blogging to check out Open Wiki. Unfortunately, it's an ASP implementation, so it doesn't satisfy my only criteria. It really looks very slick, and I especially like the attempt to follow web-standards (indicated by the w3c icons on the bottom right).
Update 2: Brad Smith (no blog in e-mail) sent me a head-up about JSPWiki this evening. This one looks pretty cool - it's got a RSS feed and statistics. Just to be fair, SimpleWeb has an RSS feed as well.
I've begun my first phase of the evaluation and will update notes in this post accordingly - after I'm done, I'll add to to my Articles list. Keep the suggestions coming - I'll eval as many as I have time for and hopefully keep the list growing.
Update 3:
Here is a rough list of features I put together last night (Saturday, 10-26-02) about features I read from each wiki's documentation. I jotted down some quick thoughts and I will evolve them over the next few days. This is only a 15 minute analysis, more to come soon.
Very Quick Wiki:
- Email notification
- Virtual wikis
- MySQL support
- Custom file system directory
- File uploads
- Wiki markup vs HTML
- Admin console
- The search engine
- Diff
- Username cookies
- Versioning
- Locking
Plus: version 2.0, Easy install
Minus: Doesn't Validate (no character encoding)
Development: Somewhat Active
SimpleWeb
Plus: Nice Interface, E-Mail Signup, Russel wrote it (a.k.a. you'll probably
get good support), RSS Feed
Minus: Doesn't Validate (no character encoding), No documentation, No Web UI
To Configure (had to search and find .jspf files under WEB-INF), No binary distribution,
have to download and compile, Version 0.1
Development: Not Active
Chiki
- Simple Content Creation and Editing: edit existing pages or create new pages
by using any web browser - no need to upload pages via ftp or http
- Edit Content: simply click on the Edit option and make your changes
- Create Content: simply type in the name of the new page you want
- Automatic links: pages are linked automatically. You do not need to learn
Html commands to link pages.
- Text formatting: simple, powerful and easy to learn text formatting rules.
If you can use email, you can use Chiki !
- Nodes: pages are grouped into Chiki Nodes. This allows simple organisation
of content and collaboration areas
- Content Search: full text search
- Content Links: simply click on the links option to see what other content
pages link to this one
- Access Control: you must be registered and logged in to edit and create
content, otherwise you have read access only
- Recent Activity: shows the most recent edit/create operations performed
Plus: Uses Struts and Castor, User Login to Edit, Homepage is powered by Chiki
Minus: Doesn't validate (no character encoding), Version 0.27
Development: Stagnant - was active when first released, but seems to have lost
momentum
JSPWiki
- RSS Feed
- XML-RPC interface
- Skins (2.0)
- Authentication and Access Control (2.0)
- Search
- File Upload
- User Preferences (username)
- Recent Changes
- Diff
Plus: Homepage is powered by JSPWiki, Future plans documented on website, version
1.97
Minus: Doesn't validate (but does include DOCENGINE), plain and boring interface,
No Admin UI
Development: Seems to be Active - lots of discussions on homepage
I wonder what kind of digital camera James Duncan Davidson has? He's posted some really nice pictures of his hike up Yosemite falls on Monday.
I went searching on the Struts User List this afternoon and found a couple treats. The first is that you can make $135 for each Struts bug you fix. The second is StrutsCX (Struts with Castor XML and XSLT - but without JSP.). Sounds cool, downloading now.
Update: I installed StrutsCX on this server so you can try it out. Pretty cool stuff. I wonder how difficult it would be to switch from Castor XML to Castor JDO, and then generate the whole thing using XDoclet. BTW, did you know you can install WAR files in Tomcat by 1) ftp-ing the file to your server, and 2) using a url in your browser? Pretty cool - here's the one I used to install simpleweb today:
http://raibledesigns.com/manager/install?path=/simpleweb&war=jar:file:/home/raible/webapps/simpleweb.war!/
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