Advanced Roller at ApacheCon EU, April 2008
One of my five ApacheCon EU 2008 proposals was accepted. I submitted a couple of proposals for customizing Roller, one for advanced Roller and one on RSS/Atom. The advanced Roller talk was accepted....
View ArticleRC10 is 4.0
We've got the votes to release our tenth release candidate as Apache Roller 4.0. I'll make formal announcements after I've put files in place and updated the various release and docs pages.
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Roller 4.0 released
Finally! Apache Roller 4.0 has been released and is now available for download.This is a major new Roller release which includes easier blog theme customization, a much more simple...
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How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 1
This is part one of a two part series: How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 1: directory structure and required files How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 2: the theme.xml file The Roller 4.0...
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How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 2
This is part two of a two part series: How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 1: directory structure and required files How to create a Roller 4.0 theme, part 2: the theme.xml file In part one I...
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Roller Strong #12
I have just one item for Roller Strong today: the post below from James Snell of IBM, which lists some pretty impressive stats for IBM's internal blogging system. James doesn't mention it in the post,...
View ArticleThe "all Dave" feed
Another thing I worked on over the winter break was an all-Dave feed, a single page and feed that combines all of the various things that I post to the web: blog entries, Flickr photos, del.icio.us...
View Articlewwwin-blogs.cisco.com
Apparently, CISCO has a pretty active internal blog server and it's running Roller. I can tell from my referrer logs. If any CISCO folks are reading this, drop me a line. I'd love to know how Roller...
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blogcentral.jpost.com
The Jerusalem Post is blogging with Apache Roller. (Belated) Congratulations to developer Odelya Glick and the rest of the JPost web team on the site launch. [link]
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HOWTO: Configure Roller to use Memcached
In my last post, I explained the details of Roller cache configuration and I mentioned that Roller's caching system is pluggable but I didn't explain what that really buys you. Basically, what it means...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code ideas for Roller
I asked for Google Summer of Code (GSOC) ideas for Roller a couple of days ago. Below are links to the proposals I thought were good enough to volunteer as possible mentor for and to submit. The...
View ArticleHappy 4th birthday to blogs.sun.com
I remember how freaked-out I was to see the referrer hits start rolling in (pun fully intended) from http://blogs.sun.com/roller. I can't believe it's been four years already. Thanks to Linda for the...
View ArticleTest post from iPhone
Via Roller web UI. It's not the most pleasant experience, pinching and scrolling around to move from title to content and then down the page to find the post button, but you can post to Roller from an...
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Roller status
If you want the lowdown on what's going on with Roller community health, ongoing work and upcoming releases then check out the Apache Roller August 2008 Board Report.
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Roller and SocialSite at Open Source Days 2008
I'm happy to report that I'll be traveling to Copenhagen, Denmark to talk about Roller and Project SocialSite at the Open Source Days 2008 conference on Oct. 3-4 this year. I'm going to tell the story...
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OpenID support in Roller
Thanks to one hard working student and the Google Summer of Code, we now have a patch for OpenID support in Roller and its ready to commit to trunk. Here's a teaser screenshot:If you want to know more,...
View ArticleGentle reminder about Roller support
If you need help with Roller, please do not write to me directly. Please write to the Roller user mailing list instead so that everybody has a chance to answer and benefit from the answer to your...
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What's up with Roller?
I've been neglecting my Blogging Roller duties, no doubt, but Roller work continues albeit at a slower pace. If you want the official word on Apache Roller status and progress then check the project's...
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Details of Roller setup at blogs.sun.com
Meena Vyas, Murthy Chintalapati and Allen Gilliland just published an article on BigAdmin that describes the architecture of blogs.sun.com, a Roller, Sun Web Server, Memcached and MySQL based site that...
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Fauxcoly and XHTML
Believe it or not, I've never created an XHTML theme for Roller and I didn't even notice the XHTML declaration when I put my new theme (which I'm calling Fauxcoly) together. I did notice when I got...
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