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e hënë tetor 18, 2004
Feedback on Pluggable comment authentication in Roller Dave Johnson has designed Pluggable comment authentication in Roller and asks for feedback.
Last summer I tried to integrate JCaptchas in Roller for http://blogs.sun.com. I used their servlet filer implementation: it worked but crashed the server. There amy have been other problems, but one of the big issues with adding some html for authentication in the current comment page is that it will be added for every page view of the details page, wether it is performed by a search engine, or a user who does not intend to post comments. Since then I've had a private email discussion with JCaptcha developer Marc-Antoine Garrigue about JCaptcha integration in Roller and how to do it in the most scalable way and we both agreed that adding a new page in the comment posting flow was the right way to go.
For lightweight authentication methods like TypeKey, Math, or nothing, it's acceptable to generate the auth form in the comment form every time. For more heavyweight methods such as image captchas it is not acceptable. Dave the way you designed your interface makes it possible to add a page in the comment pageflow, but I think you should add a public boolean addpageflow() method to your interface definition to let implementation choose wether the HTML will be generated in a new page or within the comment form. You also need to implement the new pageflow generation: JCaptcha integration will need this. Talk with Marc-Antoine for more details.
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e mërkurë tetor 13, 2004
Gmail adds Atom feeds From Steve Rubel I learnt that Gmail added an atom feed to read the emails from your Gmail account in a RSS aggregator. It does not seem to be public yet but Barnaby James in his comment section mentions the url: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom. Your Rss aggregator must support https and basic auth. NetNewsWire does:-)
I tried it right away in NetNewsWire: it asked me for my Gmail login/password, and presto, it worked!
The Atom entries contain only the first 80 to 90 characters in the mail. So you're obliged to go to the site to read the rest. This allows them to avoid putting ads in the feed. The item link just goes back to Gmail, not to the exact email that is represented by the post. I guess it's something they might want to implement.
With feeds to mail gateways, this mail to feed gateway closes the loop: Desktop News aggregators have mostly copied the 3 pane interface design of Desktop mail clients. With this you can even read your mail in them:-)
In the end, the type of client you use to read your mail or feeds doesn't really matter: I see feeds as just one more type of source of information, and blogs as one more sink, or destination. Mail readers and news aggregators will adapt to let their users sort through all this information and send it where they see fit.
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Daniel Steinberg chimes in for Alameda on java.net: Watson - come here
Watson - come here -: "I want to see you (open sourced on java.net)."
I've refrained to talk about this before, but since it seems to be public knowledge I guess I can write a bit about it here. I've used Watson, and Alameda when Dan was still at Sun, and I really loved it. It has a great potential as a web service rich client framework. I hope we'll make something out of it.
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e hënë tetor 11, 2004
A Brief Introduction to Zen on Kuro5hin A Brief Introduction to Zen: Best introduction I've read on the subject: food for thought, a must (non-)read:-)
( Tet 11 2004, 07:05:16 PD PDT )
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