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Michael Thomas of the Triangle Internetworkers (INW) has an interesting idea. The Triangle Internetworkers is "a geographically defined, loosely knit group of technology workers who like to get together once a month and socialize." Between monthly gatherings the group hangs out on a busy, sometimes noisy, and comfortable mailing list. Michael sees value in the group's discussions and wants a way to share this value on the web by developing a community website that is driven by content posted to the INW mailing-list.
To make it easy for mailing-list subscribers to opt-in to the website and to ensure that the mailing-list's unique eco-system remains intact, Michael wants to develop a system based on simple markup-language that subscribers can use, or choose not use, within their email messages. The markup will indicate the message content and message meta-data like title, category, etc. He's written up the requirements and the motivations behind this idea and some initial design ideas.
Michael's requirements and design do not mention weblogging even
once, but this is obviously a weblog application. By using a
weblog the Internetworkers will have complete control over site layout
and design, categorization, permissions, RSS feeds, Blogger API,
comments, etc. Somebody has got to have done some mailing-list weblog
integration work already, but I can't find anything except a plea for mailing-list weblog cross-polination from Tim O'Reilly. Finding nothing, I decided to come up with some suggestions on my own:
Any other ideas? Has anybody implemented this type of system before?
I also read Mark Pilgrim's excellent new XML.com column The Atom API. The column reviews the history of weblogging APIs and then provides details of the new Atom API. The article makes it pretty clear that the Atom API is a better solution than the XML-RPC based Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs. It is easier to implement and it takes advantage of XML features like namespaces and schema. Atom is simple and elegant, yet it remains SOAP compatible; a great example of a web services API.
In other weblogging tech news, two competing proposals for website newfeed discovery have appeared: FDML from Sam "it's just data" Ruby and friends and shortly after that myPublicFeeds.opml from Dave "it's just an outline" Winer. These proposed standards could be pretty useful to sites like Java.blogs that aggregate multiple blogs and JRoller which host a community of blogs.Simon Brown: I must admit that while XDoclet is very useful when building EJBs, I'm not sold on the idea of using for the web tier myself.Like Matt and Erik, who both left comments on Simon's weblog, I'm sold on XDoclet for the web tier, for generating struts-config.xml, validation.xml, web.xml, form beans, etc.
Larry O'Brien: But what really proved .NET's value proposition to me was when I saw how the subsystem was integrated. Web services may be a buzzword in semidecline, but when you witness the ease with which minimally experienced server-page programmers can successfully participate in developing a scalable distributed application by consuming Web services developed by more experienced programmers, you become a believer.Found via SBC's weblog. Larry O'Brien sees the multi-language aspects of Dot-Net as a way to enable programmers of different skill levels to work together.
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