Saturday August 31, 2002

Skinny Skinny Skin Skin
I'm no graphic artist, and I seriously doubt I could come up with a compelling "skin" or template or whatever. I encourage all three of you reading this to submit your skin/template/whatever to Roller! Then submit somebody elses (hey, I can see it, it must be public domain, right?). ( Aug 31 2002, 11:56:30 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

Roller 0.9.5 Released
Okay, it looks like I'm the last member of the team to post this news (so that makes it not news?). One thing I've been meaning to do is write an "alternative install guide", focusing on HSQLDB and Resin, since that is what I'm using. Maybe when I'm not feeling so damned lazy... ( Aug 31 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday August 29, 2002

Unemployment sucks the life right out of ya. This is my first real stretch of unemployment (I've done it before, but fresh out of college). I wake up every morning completely demotivated, tired, and just generally depressed. And boy is my wife getting sick of it. And I'm just finishing my 3rd week.

If anyone knows of a good Java opportunity in the St Paul MN area, please let me know (lance at brainopolis.com). ( Aug 29 2002, 08:51:52 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Roller features I forget who's blog I read it in, but he was discussing bloggers having a history feature: edits to a blog entry are saved, so they can be rolled back or readers can see what changes have been made. The most straight-forward approach would be to save the whole previous version of the entry into a seperate blog_history table, but this could get space intensive. Perhaps a "diff" version could be done?

Also, there has been a request on the dev list for a Roller search engine. My co-worker worked with Lucene quite a bit in this last year, perhaps he'd be willing to help implement a search engine. ( Aug 29 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

Yeah Twins! Last night I went to the Twins game with my brother and my 2 step-brothers (visiting from out of town). Had a good time, and the Twins beat the Mariners 2-1. This was only the second Twins game I'd been to in my life. Don't know why everyone complains about the Metrodome, seems like a good place to see a game to me. ( Aug 29 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Entertainment Permalink [Trackback]

Wednesday August 28, 2002

Omnicient Debugging link courtesy of the rebelutionary. ( Aug 28 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Monday August 26, 2002

More Vanity OOOO, another chance to show my vanity. Matt suggested a way I can get dear old Mom her private weblog. Perhaps I'll try it out. ( Aug 26 2002, 04:32:04 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Sunday August 25, 2002

More Roller stuff
Wonder how much work it would take to add a Public/Private flag to the website, and/or to individual blogentries. My Mom would like to have a "journal" but she's concerned about privacy. So far I don't have any good options for her.

Something I've done before is actually set up a 3-way option:
Public: anyone can view it
Protected: visitor must enter a password to view protected entries (it remembers it for the whole visit)
Private: only the creator can view it. ( Aug 25 2002, 04:48:55 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

For further reading on today's posts:

Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps : Private Weblogs in Roller Category: Roller I've used a "quick and dirty" technique for making a private roller weblog for family members only. Maybe Lance can use this to create a private weblog for his mom ;-)