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e premte qershor 17, 2005

Kind words from the french Padawan about blogs.sun.com

Francois is a well known voice in the blogging community: he gives Sun praises about how we use blogs.sun.com as a marketing tool.

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e mërkurë prill 27, 2005

Humanizing Sun

Today John Hoffmann posted a picture of our award ceremony. The title of the award was Humanizing Sun. I like it, it's in line with my post about blogs and corporate culture.

I could not attend, I'm in vacations these days (we, french people, take vacations very seriously:-). So I just added myself to the picture in Photoshop, in my "Sun Humanizer business casual attire". As I wrote before, Danese Cooper and Dave Edmondson are also missing on this pic.

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e premte shtator 24, 2004

Craig R. McClanahan created his blog today!

Craig was in France this week, explaining Sun Java Studio Creator to customers and internally. I was lucky to attend his internal session this afternoon.

Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine spent the week with him and I understand he has been bugging Craig about blogging for the whole week. So we had a conversation about blogging at the end of his preso, and Craig explained he was more used to answering questions in mailing lists (Jakarta's living through mailing lists) than than pushing statements out like bloggers do. I can relate to that, but I'd personnally be very interested in reading a blog by a visionary like him.

A few minutes later I received the following email alert from the internal BURPS (Blog User Roller Provisioning System) system I wrote: "For Sun user xxxx Login Name: craigmcc Full Name: Craig R. McClanahan ... has been created". Welcome to the blogosphere Craig! Read him at http://blogs.sun.com/craigmcc: I'm sure he'll have a lot of exciting stuff to say about Struts, JSF and Creator. There's nothing on his weblog yet though:-).

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e enjte qershor 17, 2004

Roller bug: bookmark images need to be included directly when the image name begins with http:// Nice catch by Torrey McMahon in the Sun bloggers mailing list today.
We need to fix that in Roller.

Torrey McMahon wrote:
I noticed that the bookmarks allow you to set images. I went through and
added a few but the links get set related to the blog page. For example:
If I configd the icon to be

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.1/logo/logo.gif

it gets turned into

/roller/resources/torrey/http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.1/logo/logo.gif

Is there a way to fix that?

This is a Roller bug.
If you look at your template:

Website/Pages/Template/Weblog template
There's something like this
        <div class="sidebarBox">
            <div class="links">
                #showBookmarks("Blogroll" true false)
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="sidebarBox">
            <div class="links">
                #showBookmarks("News" true false)
            </div>
        </div>

Then in Roller code
web/WEB-INF/classes/bookmark.vm
#macro( showOneBookmark $bookmark )
    #if( $utilities.isNotEmpty( $bookmark.Image ) )
        <a href="$bookmark.Url"><img alt="$bookmark.Name"
        src="$baseURL#showResourcePath()/$bookmark.Image" /></a><br />

$bookmark.Image should be checked for the uri scheme first: if there is one and it is http, then $bookmark.Image should be used and not prefixed with $baseURL#showResourcePath()/
I've added that to my weblog in the blogs.sun.com category, that I use to track the requirements for Sun Roller.
Later on we'll create an aggregated site with this category to get all the requirements.

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e hënë qershor 14, 2004

Category specific feeds in Roller

Following a question by a colleague from Sun about the possibility to have category specific feeds in Roller, here's the answer.

Category filtering is part of the product already: this is one of the main interest of using a dynamic system such as Roller as opposed to a static/generation based system such as MT where all this stuff has to be regenerated all the time, and at least pre-generated: you just need to add the ?catname=your_category_here parameter to get a filtered output

at the weblog level: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/pat/?catname=blogs.sun.com
at the individual rss level: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/pat?catname=blogs.sun.com

However at the aggregated sitewide rss level it does not seem to work.

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss?catname=blogs.sun.com yields nothing.

I need to look into how it's implemented to determine why.

In order to take advantage of that you need to add urls like these in your Roller theme. The Sun theme will need to have these. ( Qer 14 2004, 03:36:38 PD PDT ) Permalink Chat about it

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Wordpress founder Matthew Mullenweg comments about blogs.sun.com

Wordpress founding developer Matthew Mullenweg has posted a few constructive comments about blogs.sun.com. He mostly points to things we need to configure and expose better.

I copy my answer here for my pals managing blogs.sun.com: I have created a blogs.sun.com category for this weblog. Please fellow Sun bloggers to the same so that we can filter the aggregated blogs with the category="blogs.sun.com" query and get a project requirements list autogenerated for the site.

Let's answer in order here:

Tim Bray proposed WordPress and I was more in favor of Roller because I have experience with it, we know it scales thanks to the JRoller instance, it fit our requirements of hosting multiple blogs, and it's in java so we can hack it to our heart's content. Other people at Sun shared my opinions, so we wen on with Roller. I haven't tried WordPress so I can't judge wether it's better or not.
Feeds seem strange, can you be more specific? Then we can try to fix that.
Permalink is a good comment: they exist but currently they are not exposed in the theme I use. I will add this requirement for the Sun theme we develop. This entry, with the category blogs.sun.com indicates that the entry contains a requirements for blogs.sun.com.
For example for my post that you comment about, the permalink is http://blogs.sun.com/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history
Terrible uris, I guess you're talking about the roller/page part of uris: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history
these are not necessary, since we have an Apache front end which rewrite urls: the above axample can be accessed through http://blogs.sun.com/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history which seems good enbough to me, at least as good as your http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/06/08/sunny/#comments :-)
But we need to start expose these and maybe redirect the roller/page uris to their reduced counterparts.

Thanks for the feedback Matt.

( Qer 14 2004, 02:55:55 PD PDT )

This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.