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Tuesday, 7 January 2003

JavaBlogs has seen a few updates, including minor bug fixes and hopefully no more dreaded 'my blog hasn't been updated!' emails to us Let us know if there are any particular bugs remaining. 8:28:37 AM  comment []      Wow - long time no post. Happy New Year to all, I hope the next year is better than the previous one 8:26:26 AM  comment []      What do you guys think about this article on JavaWorld? Frankly I see it as divisive and almost evil. Isn't JavaWorld supposed to be supporting the Java community rather than converting it to .Net? Send them your thoughts as feedback if this pisses you off as much as it does me. 8:25:21 AM  comment []

Wednesday, 11 December 2002

Just a note - if anyone gets an email from 'me' that looks like spam today, it's not me. It would appear someone is using my work email address as the 'from' and 'reply-to' addresses on their spam. And you know what really bites? There is absolutely nothing I can do about it. (Except receive and trash the thousands of bounce emails, angry complaints and 'don't spam me' mails) *sigh* 12:32:59 AM  comment []

Tuesday, 10 December 2002

I forgot to mention, javablogs.com is now completely built, tested and deployed with Maven! Congrats to the Maven guys on producing a kickass piece of software, that's only going to improve with age. (Oh - and if you want to peddle your Maven or javablogs suggestions, try #maven on irc.werken.com) 7:52:09 PM  comment []      A few more javablogs.com updates went up today: Feeds should now be parsed and dispersed more regularly The frontpage now only shows 3 entries from each person (really this time! ) You can easily view the stories for today and yesterday - makes it easier to keep up Hot stories (sorted by views) are now also viewable! (today / yesterday) You can navigate back and forth amongst the calendar in a much nicer way (see the top of any of the last 4 links) Added a list of rules as to what blogs are accepted Probably other things I can't think of off the top of my head! Daily email updates are coming soon for those who like reading email more (you can subscribe to them now but they won't hit your inbox just yet). Enjoy. 7:49:17 PM  comment []

Saturday, 7 December 2002

Heard of HEP? It looks pretty cool: "Hep is a message server. It's a server in the sense that it's a program without a graphical user interface, that runs in the background, waiting for other programs to connect to it over the network. I call it a "message server" because it does things with messages, which as far as Hep is concerned are any little bits of text or HTML that you want to read, or save, or publish, or pass on to somebody else, or convert into a different format, or organize." 11:27:57 AM  comment []      Dylan is moving from Struts to the WW and has an interesting perspective on the benefits of WW: "There's a lot to like about WebWork: it's simple to configure, is a lot smaller in terms of mindset-investment than Struts, and the expression language rocks. The EL is a very xpath-like syntax for accessing bean properties, and accesses a sort of "stack" that corresponds to levels of access. " And JoeO's #java FAQ has an interesting entry named Why are people so down on Struts? "It's very popular, written up in many books, and violently loved by many... yet #java tends to sneer at morons who feel that Struts is THE WAY. Here's a short list of why Struts is looked down upon..." Food for thought anyway 11:24:17 AM  comment []

	Friday, 29 November 2002
	hahah this plot synopsis is truly funny - the similarities between LOTR and Star Wars. 11:02:06 AM  comment []

Thursday, 28 November 2002

Wow! I have to say we've been overwhelmed by the great response to javablogs.com today, thanks to all! (Also, Owen Fellows - one of our guru Atlassian developers - was the other major developer, so please blame / thank him too ) We even managed a few updates today - all based on the great feedback - including: The frontpage will now only show a maximum of 3 headlines from each blog - if there's more than three, a short message will be displayed linking to the View Blog page. The blog links are now colour coded across the site, with each colour unique to a particular blog per page. Each View Blog page (example) now shows whether or not the blog is aggregated and / or searchable. The search function can now filter a date range, so if you know a post was written around a particular time - it can help you narrow down your search. You can also just ignore the query altogether and use this to browse all entries in a particular date range. Lists of global recent searches, and your own recent searches are also displayed - it's really just a bit of fun, but it might be useful to see what others are looking for?  You can no longer add the same blog twice There's probably other things too - but that's about all I can think of off the top of my head. (Oh - and we passed 50 blogs in one day *cheer* next milestone is 100!) 6:32:10 PM  comment []      One blogger (put your name on your blog man!) posted his "25 Reasons I Love Using IntelliJ Idea" - fantastic summary. 2:57:02 PM  comment []      Charles has hit the nail right on the head (to use his own words) with BEA gets desperate. Some of BEA's claims squarely hit the mark. Many of them are cringe-worthy marketing FUD. I'm particularly amused by the line: [base "]IBM's WebSphere solution is built on an outdated middleware technology called CORBA[per thou], that could only have been written by Marketing. None of this actually matters, though. From a marketing perspective, you only ever publish this sort of document in two circumstances. Either (a) you're losing, or (b) you're Larry Ellison. But he left my favourite line for last (too true it is!): If it weren't for the collateral issues, nobody would buy Websphere. But by the same token, nobody would buy Weblogic either. Orion and JBoss would rule the world. 1:12:47 PM  comment []      Scott sent me this today, and it's a fantastic read - The Programmers' Stone: The purpose of this site is to recapture, explore and celebrate the Art of Computer Programming. By so doing we hope to help the reader either become a better programmer, understand what less experienced programmers are struggling with, or communicate more effectively with other experienced programmers. With sections like "Angels, Dragons and the Philosophers' Stone", "To See the World in a Line of Code", "The Reality of the System as an Object" and my favourite, "Are Electrons Conscious?" - it's not your normal software development book. And it's free - what more could you want? 12:12:04 AM  comment []

Wednesday, 27 November 2002

OK - javablogs.com is ready to beta test, and we brought it in an hour under the time frame, it must be some sort of miracle. What is it? Basically a replacement for the Java and J2EE Weblogs list - that grew out of hand as feature-itis took over. Each blogger can add their own blog, and decide if they want it aggregated (ie the content will show up), searchable (ie the content is indexed and can be searched), both or neither. We tried to leave all the power in the bloggers hands (blogging is after all a decentralised medium!). The search function is especially useful, and will be more so over time I think! (Forgot where you heard about AOP? Try searching for it) You can also get an OPML feed of all the blogs now (which lots of people have asked for), and the RSS feed of new blogs is updated in real time. There's a million other features we want to add (personalisation, group moderation, some sort of statistical / intelligent filtering, keyword categorisation, SOAP API, hot entries, popular searches etc), but I think we've got a good start so far. Feedback? Either email me or just comment on this post! 7:59:55 PM  comment []