Monday November 03, 2003

New Roller Plugin

I've implemented the ReadMore functionality as a Plugin for Roller. I haven't deployed the new Plugin stuff to Brainopolis yet, so you cannot see it in action. Here is an excerpt from my checkin:

Finishing the ReadMorePlugin (this was harder than I thought). It uses a variant (much added code) of Henri Yandell's truncateNicely() method to place ellipses at approximately the 250th character.

Caution is advised in applying the Plugins to old entries (not a good idea). If you are already using _entry you can delete that Page without side effect, or you can try upgrading it as I have done for the Themes that make use of it. In either case you should probably remove the "!" from the beginning of your posts as it is no longer necessary (and will actually prevent ReadMorePlugin from functioning with _entry - sorry)

Other Plugins I'm considering: a VelocityPlugin (entry specific macros), a "HotWords" plugin (dependent on a facility to define hotwords, and another which escapes me at the moment. ;-)

Later: I forgot to mention that to use it on a pre-existing blog you will need to replace $entry.text with #showEntryText($entry) in your _day Page.
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Saturday November 01, 2003

"New" Roller functionality

For quite some time now, Roller has had integration with JSPWiki. Using this integration required stepping through some hoops and a good understanding of how Roller uses Velocity (in my opinion). Little known as that may be, it also had the ability to render entries through Textile4J, using the same mechanism as that for JSPWiki.

This week I've been working on making the plugins more configurable (not hardcoded), and the use of the plugins more automatic. I just finished checking all that in! Yeah! There is more work to do for the user interface, namely spelling out what options the user has depending on which plugins are loaded... I'll tackle that later, time to get back to the family.
( Nov 01 2003, 01:01:39 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Monday October 20, 2003

Pro JSP, 3rd Edition

Forgive me Father, for it has been almost a month since I last blogged.

Today I received a copy of Pro JSP from Matt Raible - autographed even! Thanks Matt, for sharing with me. Reading the authors' notes, I was gratified to receive a "shout out" from Dave Johnson as well. What swell guys I hooked up with on the Roller project.
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Friday September 26, 2003

Re: atom is atom is atom

Thank you, Diego, for pointing this out (somehow I never saw the atom-syntax list before). What a relief that something is happening again. Though while reading it occurred to me that Atom/Pie/Echo makes it's own fine acryonym (I know, they are forbidden): APE. Has that been suggested already?
( Sep 26 2003, 10:41:21 AM ) Atom Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday September 25, 2003

Not Atom

The project formerly known as Pie/Echo/Atom is undergoing another Final Name Vote. Jump into the scrum and voice your opinion - even if you don't have one!
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Tuesday September 23, 2003

It's so good to be bad

Within the last 24 hours I've seen two excellent writeups on how/what the author learned from failure. Good stuff, inspiring in fact.
( Sep 23 2003, 09:11:43 AM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday September 18, 2003

Re: The offshoring debate

Thanks to Rafe for the link to this article.
( Sep 18 2003, 03:13:28 PM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday September 11, 2003

Coming soon to an office near you

... I hope ... if you live or work in the Twin Cities MN area. That is to say, my current contract will be ending on the 24th and I'm on the hunt for gainful employment. If you are hiring, or know anyone who is, please contact me at lance AT brainopolis.com.
( Sep 11 2003, 08:29:33 AM ) Personal Permalink [Trackback]