Wednesday May 07, 2003

Re: It's a boy

Okay, BlogTree is fun. Amusingly, I now have a Child which is also a Sibling. Dave, have you spawned some sort of incestuous family?
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Blog Portability

Of course, as soon as I opened my mouth I remembered Dave Winer's Formats for Blog Browsers. It has already been suggested that this would make a good format for porting blogs (it's really just RSS 2.0). So the next step would be to write an export/import utility for Roller & RSS2, then anyone could import there 'old' feed into their new Roller account.

The one part not readily portable is the user account: outside of username/password and maybe email, what could we standardize across blog servers?

Later: If we use RSSlibJ we could parse any RSS/RDF feeds - populating Roller with whatever info we can attain.
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For further reading on today's posts:

pippa said: finds yet another blog circle-jerk : Courtesy of Lance ... Blogtree .

Tuesday May 06, 2003

Re: Roller suggestions - Take II

Arjun has several suggestions, but the one about the permalink icon catches my attention. Even though his suggestion is for #showEntryPermalink($entry, $image) I'm guessing he means the *day* permalink - since currently entry permalinks don't use icons but rather just text ("#"). Still, this would be a useful feature for both

In Roller 0.9.7 and above we've moved to using real Velocimacros, so you'll be able to override the #show[Day|Entry]Permalink([$day|$entry]) macros with your own implementation. But having a standard macro for this could be useful as well.
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Monday May 05, 2003

Re: a review of blogging APIs

Note to self: stay on top of this discussion and this "tutorial".
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Sunday May 04, 2003

The Undocumented Castor

Since I've never heard of one hosted elsewhere, I've started a wiki for Castor. I'm calling it The Undocumented Castor. For now I've only got it installed and the main page slightly altered. Anyone who would like to help out is welcome. Thanks.
( May 04 2003, 11:08:54 AM ) Technology Permalink
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For further reading on today's posts:

Erik's Weblog : May Day : [@094] Matt — iPod Goodies and Running a process from a servlet . Apple offers free WWDC Early Bird Workshops . Dell to Change Name . Dell Computer , Inc. Jason — Bad coding day . Kev — Maven's best/worst features . XML Benchmark 1.1.1 , a C/C++/Java XML parsers benchmarking tool set. Diego — blogging APIs: a mini how-to . [@009] Borland Heats Up New, Upgraded Java Tools . JBuilder 9, and Janeva. Russ — Blogg...

Saturday May 03, 2003

For future reference

From Abort, Fail, Retry's blog, a link to MovableType's XML-RPC API. There are some very good things here.
( May 03 2003, 08:31:53 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Friday May 02, 2003

Re: The Ultimate Weblogging System

Matthew has taken the time to respond to comments and everyone's comparison of their blogging system against his requirements. Thank you Matthew. But you still haven't explained the Creative Commons requirement. Is all you are looking for is the ability for the user to select a License and have the appropriate logo displayed?
( May 02 2003, 10:41:48 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [1]
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On a lighter note

Found via Code Intensity.
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working on the future of solidarity : A list of must haves for weblogging systems has been developed. From Lance's review of the criteria it looks as if Roller is doing quite well.