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Tuesday April 29, 2003

Braindump: Roller, Hosting and Wrox

I have a lot of things I want to mention, so let's just get right to it.

Roller should bundle Moblogger
It'd be cool if Roller bundled Russ's Moblogger as part of the application. It'd be pretty easy, all we'd need to do is slap a UI on it's config file - possibly put the config into a database, and maybe even use Roller's "page" feature for the e-mail templates. Then we'd have to figure out a way to start Moblogger's thread in the background and possibly do one thread for each user.

Roller Plugins
Should Roller add a Plugins feature like Blojsom has? Why should we? If we should, maybe we should just re-use an existing plug-in API - i.e. Struts' or Blojsom's. What would make a good plugin? Is this just a fancy name for a feature that can be turned on/off (i.e. comments).

Struts Menu for the Editor
I hope to add the ability to choose different menu types in Roller's Editor UI. First, I'll have to integrate Roller's tabbed menu as a displayer for struts-menu [demo]. The CoolMenu's displayer will work great (and require less mouse clicks). I mention this in hopes of making Lance and Dave aware of any schema changes that need to be made to support a user-selectable menu type. I'll also need to add the ability to specify struts-forwards in the menu-config.xml (not implemented yet in struts-menu).

This site and my provider
This site was down a lot today - probably because of all the hits from javablogs.com (just put Hibernate in your title). I noticed that Simon and Sam's sites were down as well. This leads me to believe that my kgbinternet.com is not up to snuff. Dave and Lance seem to never have issues with Roller crashing - so why am I? Please recommend any hosting providers that offer private Tomcat instances (preferrably with lots of RAM and disk space).

What's up with Wrox and Professional JSP 2.0
Who knows... I haven't heard a thing, from anyone. Think I'd get anyone's attention if I slapped both of my chapters on this site - free of charge? I doubt it. I might just do that if I don't get any feedback in the next week or so. Are they gonna sue me for the pocket change they paid me to write the chapters?

Now I'm going to assign this to my Java category and see if all you java.bloggers can crash this site again. ;-)

Posted in Java at Apr 29 2003, 11:20:43 PM MDT 8 Comments
Comments:

Matt, I seem to doing Ok with Rosehosting.com . Disk Space: 4 GB (This includes the 450 MB taken by the operating system) Transfer Per Month: 40 GB Your current cumulative bandwidth usage is in /var/log/bandwidth Operating System: Linux RedHat 7.3 For $59.95 US per month Not sure about the memory but I am using 256 m for my JVM and no one is sending me nasty emails ;-) And Russell recently switched to rackshack.net they have some deals on big packages in the $100 US range. Brian

Posted by Brian Blakeley on April 30, 2003 at 05:54 AM MDT #

Matt, I use SuppleHost (http://www.supplehost.com) to host my blog. I'm on the platinum plan (http://www.supplehost.com/plan_suppleplatinum.jsp). $18/mo, private JVM (Java 1.4.1), Tomcat 4.1.24, etc... David

Posted by David Czarnecki on April 30, 2003 at 07:07 AM MDT #

Moblogger: Yep, we should look into this.

Roller plugins: I'd need to look at what Blojsom et al call Plugins, not really sure myself. My pal Kevin Duffey has become the (self-styled) "plugin hotshot" of late.

Struts menu: We'd probably need a field akin to the "which editor do you want to use". Not a big deal. The implementation of the menu itself is likely to be more of an issue.

Hosting: I'm self-hosted, so no help here.

Wrox: You got paid? I haven't seen a cent yet for my work.

Posted by Lance on April 30, 2003 at 07:30 AM MDT #

I host with Johncompanies.com that I'm using, since you are part of an opensource project you can get an account for $45 dollars. This includes more than I've ever used. It is a virtual server. I know that Russ had some problems with memory usage with JVM stuff. I think in particular it was with JDBC, so this might not work out for you.

Posted by Jeff Duska on April 30, 2003 at 07:46 AM MDT #

Lance - my post is wrong - I've haven't been paid by them at all. I was referring to the dollar amount we agreed they <em>said they would pay me</em>.

Posted by Matt Raible on April 30, 2003 at 08:31 AM MDT #

I communicated with John at JohnCompanies and he was only willing to allocate 64mb per virtual server. That isn't sufficient to host a big db-driven app like Roller (but is perfect for blojsom I understand).

Posted by Lance on April 30, 2003 at 10:13 AM MDT #

[Trackback] Wiley has purchased 35 or so of the WROX titles and APress has purchased the rest. So there is still some small hope that Apress will help Professional JSP 2.0 to see the light of day ( so don't post those chapters just yet M... [General, 384 chara...

Posted by Blogging Roller on May 01, 2003 at 07:42 AM MDT #

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Posted by JSharp on April 29, 2005 at 10:17 AM MDT #

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