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Tuesday Sep 03, 2002

Unique perspective on the vision thing

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

Anthony Eden has a unique perspective on Roller because he is running a website that supports over 40 Roller users. He is our biggest customer and he needs better admin tools.

Roller MenuTag

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

Matt mentioned the idea of adding an option for drop-down menus in the Editor UI and mentioned StrutsMenu. Some time ago, I looked at StrutsMenu and it did not do quite what I wanted to to, so I set about creating a generic JSP menu tag using an MVC architecture. The Roller MenuTag reads the menu configuration from an XML file and then calls a Velocity script to render the menu.

So, creating a new drop-down menu should be as simple as writing a new Velocity script to spit out the right code to invoke CoolMenu or Hiermenu or what have you.

Looking back, I probably should have used Struts Menu as a base for my work, but I wanted to try out the ideas in Gregory Gerard's article on Accelerating JSP Tag Development with Jakarta Velocity

More on the vision thing

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

Matt Raible responded with his thoughts on Roller and the things he is interested in developing. I'm really looking forward to the UI enhancements he wants to do.

It is really cool to hear what people are interested in doing both on the Roller dev list and on the blogs, because there are so many things that just would not have entered my mind if I had been working alone. I know the middle pretty well, Servlets and JSP, but my knowledge of the back-end database stuff and the front-end browser/XHTML stuff is pretty minimal. I'm learning a lot from the Roller contributors and I'm grateful.

java.blog

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

As you can see, I'm proudly displaying Rebelutionary's stylin' new java.blog logo at the top of my page.

Better news from Sun

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

Read at ZDNet Part 1 and Part 2. I like what he had to say about Java, Solaris, and the future of Sun. Here is a ZDNet analysis of the interview. via JavaLobby.[Karl Martino - paradox1x]

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller
I'm back at work after the 3-day Labor Day weekend. I have not gotten much response to my three questions for Roller users and developers, but that's OK. I need to collect the various feature requests that folks have emailed in or posted.

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