Monday, March 17, 2003

javablog bug Found Henri's comment in my refferer logs JavaBlogs.com Well, I got myself back on javablogs.com. For a month or more now it's not been checking my site at all. Get's kind of depressing :) So I finally deleted my entry at javablogs, re-added it, and suddenly it imported 10 or so of the latest entries and splattered them on the site. It's nice to feel noisy again. Looks like Patrick Chanezon just did the same thing. No I didn't do anything to fix it, but I have the same problem: javablog doesn't seem to read my blog anymore since march 8. But I don't want to re-add my entry, it's a useful test case for javablog RSS fetcher bug: I'll just send javablog a link to this post and let him determine what bug needs to be fixed, if he has time... if it is a bug. ... re-posting it: when I wanted to comment his post I realized it was dated january 30th. Maybe javablog had the same behavior with my posts in january: I had not noticed it at that time ! But I noticed it recently: we're march 17th and my last entry on javablog is march 8th. ... reposting it 10 minutes after: found it. The issue is already documented on Mike's JIRA page http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=BLOG-12 and the comment by Edmundas Miseikis [ 05/Mar/03 02:07 AM ] Couldn't be the lost feed problem related to the next feed time, defined as local blogger's time, compared against the JavaBlogs server local time. To me, as a viewer, all times are shown in my local time, however, the same value is well in past in Australia. Might be some mix-up. Just a wild guess, sorry for interruption. seems to me to be very likely. I'm also in another timezone (PST+9). Mike, any idea ? BTW is javablog open source, ie can I acess the source code ? I'll check that tomorrow, and if yes will try to solve that bug. 9:58:09 PM    comment []

3 groups of programmers according to Tim Bray XML Is Too Hard For Programmers, says Tim Bray, who uses regexp to get his processing done. I like his categorization of programmers in 3 groups: The scripting tribe (Perl, Python), the O-O factory (Java and C#) and the close-to-the-metal gang (C, C++). I consider myself in the OO factory, with a taste for, and an aspiration to scripting. I did some nifty things in Javascript, used to do a bit of Perl, and just started Pyhton last month. I like this categorization because I find myself too often arguing with close-to-the-metal programmers about java performance, or java buffs about javascript's looseness regarding types. I think each tool have their use in my toolbox, depending on the needs, the specifications of what I need to do and the environment surrounding it. But my gut feeling is that for many of us, most of our work will tend towards scripting. Regarding the difficulty of using XML in programming languages today, I look forward to the easier ways of getting my work done... without much illusions though: it all depends on what you use XML for. 5:12:32 PM    comment []

structure + weblogs = collaboration Towards structured blogging by Seb Paquet, an insightful analysis of how weblog tools evolve towards collaboration and sematic structuration through the use of intertwingled enabling technologies such as trackback, web services, semweb and wikis. By adding the centralized identity and categories management of a Portal, I think these technologies taken together have the potential to replace centralized collaborative applications such as Lotus Notes in the context of enterprise Portals. This will be the topic of my talk at BlogTalk - A European Weblog-Conference, if they accept my paper :-)   4:54:51 PM    comment []