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Sunday Oct 06, 2002

Roller 0.9.6-rc1 status

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

I think 0.9.6-rc1 looks pretty good, so I will probably update the install guide, and release it tomorrow night. Later in the week I'll try to do some stress tests, some memory leak tests, and wrap up the user guide for a final 0.9.6 release.

Roller and RSS 2.0

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

Roller now supports all the right macros for RSS templating. For example, I was able to take Mark Pilgrim's RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type and convert to a Roller template to get RSS 2.0 output from Roller.

Roller 0.9.6-rc1 test post.

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

All systems go! Now it's time to add some of the new features to my templates and to do a little tweaking. I'll start my tweakings with the new big archive calendar.

A little later... Now that Roller allows you to put macros in weblog entries, mentioning the macros.showWeblogEntries() macro in a weblog entry as I did on 9/27/2002 is the recursive kiss of death. I think I can use a thread local storage trick to prevent this and the macros.include() page recursion. Guess that means RC2. Correction: guess that means I have some work to do before I actually release RC1.

Here is a cool new one: macros.showRSSLinks() displays links for the various types of RSS 0.9.1 feeds available from your weblog. Roller now gives you two feeds per category, one with full text and one with excerpts. You can even invoke it in a weblog entry, see:

$macros.showRSSLinks()

Ok, so the formatting is not that nice and it does not get expanded in the RSS feed. Hmmm...

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