Friday June 06, 2003

Roller now pings Weblogs.com

The long awaited feature is now in CVS.

The issue on JIRA requests pinging on changes, but Weblogs.com checks timestamps in some way and I think Roller returns the edit time of the latest post (you may have just edited an older post).

Anyway, pinging happens automatically but I was considering adding a checkbox for "Ping Weblogs.com". Is this too much info for the user?

Sunday, June 8th: By popular demand I've added the "Ping Weblogs.com" checkbox.
( Jun 06 2003, 11:17:36 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [2] [Trackback]

Re: JBoss invents Content Management

As usual, Patrick provides good commentary, and thoughtful analysis. But really, I just loved the irony of the title.
( Jun 06 2003, 10:25:35 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

The Switch

I believe Patrick is our first Switcher from another blog tool. I've seen a few people appear on FreeRoller, stating they came there from elsewhere, but this is the first instance of someone switching their own installation that I'm aware of.

Later (6/4/3): Sorry, Danman, I never saw the post about your switch. I like your blog layout though!

Later still (6/5/3): Oop, Danman, you've lost your newly claimed trophy to sean

( Jun 06 2003, 08:29:46 AM ) Roller Permalink [Trackback] [Link]

Thursday June 05, 2003

Castor 0.9.5

Sorry for the delayed announcement.

Castor 0.9.5 was released on Tuesday.

Among a number of bug fixes, Castor 0.9.5 adds support for mapping constructor arguments (currently limited to attribute mapped fields) and support for mapping nested elements and attributes by using the location attribute.

For a complete list of changes please see: http://castor.exolab.org/changelog.html

[Keith Visco, castor-dev list]

( Jun 05 2003, 09:10:47 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Re: Process Headaches

Man, do I know what you mean!
( Jun 05 2003, 09:09:11 AM ) Humor? Permalink [Trackback] [Link]

Friday May 30, 2003

Activating Comments on FreeRoller

All you FreeRoller users now have access to the Comments feature. However, if you signed up before the upgrade your templates will need a correction to "turn on Comments". Log in, go to the Website:Pages editor and click "edit" for your Day template (most likely "_dayTemplate" or "_dayXTemplate"). Inside the foreach() loop add the following (I put mine after the permalink):
#showCommentsLink($entry)
This will provide a link to the Comments popup. If you want to use the "inline" version of comments change showCommentsLink to showCommentsPageLink. If you want "twisty comments" ala Matt Raible, read his post.

Thanks to Jason Carriera I now know that it'll take a little more work than I thought: First, change your "Weblog" page to use #showWeblogEntries("_dayTemplate" 10). Of course, use the correct "day" page and the maximum number of entries to display on your page. Secondly, you will need to convert your "day" page to use the new Velocity macro syntax. Here is an example:

<table width="95%">
<tr>
<td>
#showDayPermalink($day)
#showEntryDate($day)
</td>
</tr>
</table>

#foreach( $entry in $entries )
<p>
<b>$entry.title</b> $entry.text
<font size="2">($entry.updateTime/$entry.pubTime)
#showEntryPermalink($entry)
#showCommentsLink($entry)
</font>
</p>
#end

( May 30 2003, 02:36:36 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [2] [Trackback] [Link]

Expandable Bookmarks on FreeRoller

I don't recall if this functionality was available in the version (0.9.6.3) that FreeRoller was using before. If you want to use expanding Bookmarks [#showBookmarks("Blogrolling" true true)] than make sure you Weblog page includes the following line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/themes/x2/scripts/global.js"></script>

( May 30 2003, 11:05:30 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [2] [Trackback]

Thursday May 29, 2003

Re: Comments in FreeRoller

Yet another FreeRoller user yearning for comments. Debashish, use $entry.id in your "Day" template. And then start pestering Dave & Anthony to upgrade FreeRoller (I know they want to). And by the way, I dig the look of your blog.
Update: Looks like a FreeRoller upgrade is coming tonight.
( May 29 2003, 08:38:54 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [1] [Trackback]