Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaThe best social software lets you be you- March 25, 2008 Fred Stutzman: Most of us are not internet celebrities, but the social software we use assumes we are (or want to be). It's time to rethink this, to build closets and spaces for whispering into social software. As usual, great insights from Fred. Read the whole thing.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/the_best_social_software_lets Latest Links: open source, social networking and etc.- March 23, 2008 cgwalters - A software tsunami"OpenJDK is finally changing that. Now, you can write a library using Java, it can be sensibly integrated with Free operating systems" Countdown for IBM Project Zero Reg Developer"bringing the feedback typical of an open source project without any of the obligations to give the resulting technology back to the community." Soviet-era JCP needs change, concedes top commissar Reg Developer Patrick Curran has reached a firm conclusion on his organization: "We...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links38 We want you to blog about Netbeans 6.1 beta- March 19, 2008 It's not a new runtime or a component model or some bastardized chunk of code yanked from the guts of the wombeast, it's just Netbeans 6.1 beta, the latest revision of a good solid and Jolt award winning IDE. So I'm here telling you to download it, install it, try it out and blog about it because the Netbeans team really wants and, in fact, needs your feedback. Plus, you could even win some money. I can't win since I'm a Sun employee, but I downloaded 6.1-beta today and started using it for.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/we_want_you_to_blog Google Summer of Code ideas for Roller- March 16, 2008 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 deadline is tomorrow, so you've still got time to suggest additions to the list. Roller OpenID: Open ID support for Roller blog server, for user accounts and comments Roller Mobile: Mobile interface for Roller blog server Roller Activities: Simple Social Networking for Roller blog server,...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/google_summer_of_code_ideas Fluffy little lambs vs. goats in training- March 11, 2008 Henry Yandel: I continue to grapple with the concept of how to treat users of Open Source projects. Should you be cruel, or kind It sounds like a dumb question - rude hackers who rip users apart for daring to ask a question in a not perfect way are just arseholes who need to get off their high horse. Right Im not convinced. And Im someone who usually over worries about being polite. Mostly because the voice inside my head is, I suspect, the kind of stormtrooper who after the Death Star blows.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/fluffy_little_lambs_vs_goats Latest Links: Twitter and JavaFX- March 10, 2008 As you can tell from the links below, I've been goofing around with the Twitter API and JavaFX. The Twitter API looks pretty nice and very easy to use. JavaFX looks cool to this old Swing geek, but I'm a little surprised at the state of the docs and the absence of apps. I expected more after the hyped-up launch last year. Oh, well. The Netbeans plugin is pretty nice. I'll stick with it and maybe I'll be able to squeeze a Twitter Client or at least a Java.net or O'Reilly article out of my late...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links36 Daffodils- March 10, 2008 Daffodils Originally uploaded by snoopdave It's still a little chilly around here, but the flowers and trees are starting to bloom.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/daffodils Six- March 8, 2008 By my count that's how many Apache members work at Sun. I thought I had a complete count, but Nick Kew's recent post revealed a sixth (see the comments). Here's the list: Craig McClanahan Craig Russell Dave Johnson Jim Winstead Nick Kew Ted Leung Know of any other Sun employees that are Apache membershttp://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/six Latest Links: Friday March 7, 2008- March 7, 2008 snellspace.com: Contact!"So Google announced its Contacts API based on Atompub of course" netzooid: Writing Your First AtomPub Service with Abdera"This shows the much simplified server code base in action, so beware - this requires the latest trunk code. 0.4.0 should be out soon though" Astoria: AtomPub support in the ADO.NET"We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project Astoria" Marc Hadley's Blog: Authentication in Jersey"Actions on some.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links30 HOWTO: Configure Roller to use Memcached- March 6, 2008 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 is that you can replace Roller's in-memory LRU caching mechanism with something else. In this blog entry, I'll explain how to do that.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/howto_memcached_with_roller |