Monday August 11, 2003

Re: java.blogs best practices

Oops, I just broke one of them. Since I am just a nobody, no one with the status of Norman Richards (there's another rule broken), I doubt anyone cares, but I prefer the use of "Re:" since it alerts readers to the fact that I am commenting on something they may have seen elsewhere. But now I'm talking about blogging in general aren't I?

Norman, are you chewing gum, or is that your tongue in your cheek?
( Aug 11 2003, 03:14:18 PM ) Entertainment Permalink Comments [4]
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Wednesday August 06, 2003

Re: showRecentEntries()

I finally followed up on myself: I used Terminus' showRecentEntries(), but eased the implementation somewhat. I added the following to the top of my _Weblog page:

#macro( showRecentEntries $maxEntries )
  #set( $map = $vHelper.getRecentWeblogEntries( $maxEntries ) )
  #foreach( $day in $map.keySet() )
    #set( $entries = $map.get($day) )
    #foreach ($var in $entries)
    <a href="$baseURL/page/$userName/#formatDate($plainFormat $var.PubTime )#$var.Anchor">
    - $var.title</a><br/>
    #end
  #end
#end

and then in my navbar I added
<p>Recent Entries<br>
#showRecentEntries ( 5 )</p>

If you compare my version to Terminus's, you'll see I've eliminated the need for a separate page (just put the display into the macro). Someday I'll get around to adding this macro to Roller's stock macros.

Aug 11th: The above should work in Roller 0.9.7 (what is currently running on FreeRoller). I've committed a new macro for 0.9.8 into Roller's cvs (it won't work properly on 0.9.7). Werner, thanks for the kick-in-the-pants!
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For further reading on today's posts:

RollerWiki : ShowRecentEntries : For a version that doesn't require creating a new template page, see my entry -Lance Werner Ramaekers Weblog : After seeing that i added to the Roller Wiki how one can add showRecentEntries to a Roller based weblog Lance has taken it a bit further as you can see on his weblog . And after a small friendly push from me he has also added ot to the Roller CVS tree as you can tell from his mail :

Monday August 04, 2003

Oooh, civil disobedience, courtesy of Russell Beattie. Thanks for pointing out this site. ( Aug 04 2003, 08:12:29 PM ) News Permalink
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Re: showRecentEntries() macros for Roller

Most excellent, someone has documented how to display a "Recent Entries" list on their Roller blog. I think some improvements could be made to this (besides incorporating it into Roller), but it'll have to wait until I have some freetime. ( Aug 04 2003, 11:04:47 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [2]
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Saturday July 26, 2003

Help Name My Son

All votes are non-binding, and of course can be vetoed by Jen or myself.
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For further reading on today's posts:

Erik's Weblog : Napster Part Deux : [@083] Deploy a Web Application with OC4J . OC4J is an Oracle 9i AS component that gives you a stand-alone test environment for developing EJBs, servlets, and JSPs. Stay Flexible with Logic Scripts . Take the logic scripting approach to reduce the complexity of changes and accelerate releases. Matt — Monday Morning Mayhem . Werner — No Fluff just Stuf : should there be an opensource java developers symposium in Europe? Andrej — OptimalJ — part...

Friday July 25, 2003

Re: CVS Hosting

JClark wonders about hosted CVS (ala Sourceforge). In the comments a representative of SourceHosting.Net suggests his service. It does look like a nice solution, but I'm wondering if $75/month is a little steep? I'm sure there are bandwidth issues to consider; anyone have any guesses as to the bandwidth used by your "average" SourceForge project? Not counting the SF.net website, of course.
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Wednesday July 23, 2003

Re: The recalcitrant engineer

I just found the recalcitrant engineer in my referer log - thanks for the link; I don't make many blogrolls outside of the Roller crowd. And I love the name and definition, as I hadn't realized I'm a bit recalcitrant myself.
( Jul 23 2003, 08:13:07 AM ) Personal Permalink
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Monday July 21, 2003

Re: OPL

I know what OPML is, but what is OPL? OPM is Other Peoples Money, and OPT is Other Peoples Time. So is OPL Other Peoples Laundry? Would seem to fit with the title OPL Over the Air: airing other people's laundry. No?
( Jul 21 2003, 08:26:24 AM ) Humor? Permalink
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