Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaPhotophys.com updates- February 28, 2007 Dad has posted Chapter 8: How To Make Lenses That Are Good Enough for Photography on his blog. At his request, I added an about page for him with a mug-shot and links to his other books.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/photophys_com_updates Raleigh Bloggers meetup Wednesday (change of time & venue)- February 28, 2007 We've decided to change the time and place of our Raleigh Bloggers meet-up. Too many folks complained about Tuesday night, so we've moved to the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. Now we'll find out if "Tuesday's not good for me" was just an excuse to avoid hanging with the techgeek patrol. And we've moved from crowded and loud Helios Coffee to the quiet Raleigh Times Bar (yeah, right). I mean, if nobody's gonna show up we might as well drink, no When: Second and Fourth...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/raleigh_bloggers_meetup_tomorrow_change Other blogging- February 23, 2007 I've been slacking off with the blogging this week, but there's some other Johnson blogging going on. Dad's enjoying his Photophys blog and getting good feedback on the draft chapters of his book. He's posted the first seven chapters now. By the way, my multi-domain hack seems to be working pretty well -- photophys.com is hosted on the same Roller instance as this site rollerweblogger.org.And brother Dan is keeping the blogging going at Film Babble blog. Check out his Oscar predictions. He's...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/other_blogging Photography: Appreciation through Understanding- February 14, 2007 I mentioned before that I convinced my Dad to start a blog. Well, now after a week or so of back-and-forth with Kattare.com getting the domain handling setup properly and modifying Roller to support multiple domains, his blog is live running on the same Roller instance that I use for this blog (but with the domain photophys.com). Dad's blog is titled Photography: Appreciation through Understanding. He's publishing draft chapters from his new book there, hoping to get feedback and attract some..http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/photography_appreciation_through_understanding Atom protocol powered Blogging Portlet- February 13, 2007 Jeffrey Blattman has put together a new Portlet that makes it possible to blog via Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) from a portal page. He's added it to the Open Source Portlet Repository on Java.net so you can try it out against your favorite APP server.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/atom_protocol_powered_blogging_portlet |