Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaJavaOne 2007 call for papers closes today- December 15, 2006 There's still time to get those proposals in. I ended up submitting three proposals for technical sessions related to RSSAtom and one for a Roller birds-of-a-feather (BOF) session. Here's the link to submit proposals: http:www.cplan.comsunjavaone07cfp.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/javaone_2007_call_for_papers1 Join the blogs.sun.com team- December 13, 2006 If you dig blogs, wikis, feeds, Java and Solaris then you might be interested in the fact that we're hiring. Linda Skrocki's got the scoop on the job opening in Sun's Community Software Engineering team.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/join_the_blogs_sun_com JavaOne 2007 call for papers ends Friday- December 13, 2006 The 2007 JavaOne Conference is May 8th-May 11th and this is the perfect forum to share your technology expertise at Sun's Worldwide Developer Conference. This year, the conference is being expanded so that while Java is at the core, with a significant emphasis on Java ME, SE and EE, there will be ample opportunity to present your technology or ideas in such areas as open source & community development (which includes Java, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice and others), next generation web or...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/javaone_2007_call_for_papers Java SE 6 too- December 12, 2006 In the rather unlikely case that you read my blog and don't know it yet, Java SE 6 was released today. The Sun bloggers are blogging it up and Danny Coward has posted a very nice top ten new features list with links to related blog posts and articles and such. Maybe someday I'll be able to upgrade.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/java_se_6_too ROME 0.9 (beta) is available- December 11, 2006 A new release of the RSS and Atom Utilities (ROME) project ROME 0.9 (beta) is now available on the project's Java.net website. This new release includes fixes to Atom relative URI resolution, easier parsing for RSS feeds that use <content:encoded>, better support for mapping of RSS to and from Atom and numerous small fixes.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rome_0_9_beta_is Apache Abdera 0.2.0 (incubating) released- December 7, 2006 Abdera is an open source Atom parser, generator, client and server tool-kit for Java. James Snell announced a new version of Apache Abdera (incubating) the other day and the feature list is impressive, especially for a "0.2.0" release. Here's an excerpt: The goal of the Apache Abdera project is to build a functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (in-progress) specifications. ... incubator blah...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/apache_abdera_0_2_0 Visual Web Pack is NOT for you if...- December 6, 2006 Roumen: Visual tools for web development are a double-edged sword. They have their advantages and disadvantages. Some users love Visual Web Pack for what it provides but some of them go crazy because by using visual tools they lose a bit of control or they don't fit their development environment. So I'd like to discuss this topic, so that you can decide whether Visual Web Pack is for you or it is not.A very thoughtful and balanced post from Netbeans evangelist Roumen Strobl that examines some...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/visual_web_pack_is_not |