Vanity Foul

Vanity Foul
Dedicated to the wanderings of an egotistical mind.

Monday September 02, 2002

Kill the Zealots!

I don't know exactly when it happened, but at some point I became an extreme anti-extremist. [Jon Udell]

For years now I've been saying "I hate zealots, kill them all!", but I don't know that anybody listened. Nice to meet someone with a similar attitude. Sadly, the older I get the less anti-zealous I get. I'm working on it. ( Sep 02 2002, 10:39:06 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Sunday September 01, 2002

Roller features, redux
Jeff Duska suggests that Roller allow user to change password, and wants a way to upload templates. Good ideas, but can you elaborate on "a way to upload templates"? You can now upload files, so perhaps we need a way to specify one of these files as the template? ( Sep 01 2002, 10:13:14 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

The Vision Thing
Dave comments on my laments in Blogger wins praise, and invites one-and-all to get involved in Roller's future. ( Sep 01 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

Roller wins praise
The rebel supports Roller:

Roller 0.9.5 Released - new features include better URLs, support for hsqldb and PostgreSQL, file upload, import and more. It's good for the Java world to have a solid blog alternative, I hope for more great things from Roller! [rebelutionary]

Give us a hand, or at least contribute to the Roadmap and help guide us. What with everyone talking about SnipSnap I'm wondering if we should strive to have the same features (me too, me too) or if there are avenues where we can strike some innovation. So far the Roadmap reads either like a list of "things Roller must have to be a real blogger tool" or a list of "things Roller must do because others have done them." Which do we want to be? ( Sep 01 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

Let the whining roll

The Java bloggers are whining about kids. You see at the moment I'm doing this the smart way - I have nieces. It's like hiring strategic contractors - when the day is over, you can give them back.[rebelutionary]

Well, the rebel may be more strategic than us, but then he's got one less option for pity-seeking. I've got three, but they are all well past the puking-on-your-shoulder mess. One is closing in on puberty, the youngest is still struggling with not messing her pants, and the boy thankfully just sticks to normal childhood illnesses (woke me up at 2:30am puking into the toilet). ( Sep 01 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Entertainment Permalink [Trackback]

Roller & HSQLDB I've been having a lot of trouble with changes to Page templates not being reflected in my pages. With some help from Dave, and the process of elimination, I discovered that setting velocity.properties cache=false solved the problem. No noticeable degradation in performance. I haven't been able to find much info on Velocity's cache to determine exactly what the issue is. ( Sep 01 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback]

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]

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