Talk: Weblogs and Java.
That's the topic of the talk that I will present to the Triangle Java User's Group on February 16th. More information is available on the TriJUG site.
Weblogs are making their way into every aspect of online life. Everybody from gossipy teenagers, mainstream journalists, tech CEOs, and politicians to Java developers and even James Gosling, seems to have their own weblog.
In this talk you will learn why weblogs are an important part of the Java development community, how weblogs can be used in software development projects, and you'll learn about the XDoclet-driven architecture of Roller - the open source and Java-based software that drives the JavaLobby's JRoller.com site.
Latest CVS.
After a little struggle my site is running the absolute latest Roller code. Unfortunately, SourceForge CVS is down so I cannot commit the half-dozen or so fixes I made in the process of my upgrade and SourceForge mailing-lists are down so I can't announce this wonderful new achievement to the folks who actually care.
BTW, my site was halfway between Roller 0.9.8 and Roller 0.9.9 so the upgrade was tricky. I haven't tested a Roller 0.9.8 to Roller 0.9.9 upgrade yet, but I'm confident that I'll be able to make that upgrade just as smooth as silk.
Snowbound.
We have nearly an 8th of an inch of snow here, and here is Raleigh-NC, so school and work and everything else will be cancelled today and tomorrow. While my inner child loves the snow and my heart sinks whenever the snow rate slows, my outer adult will surely be driven insane by stir-crazy kids home from school and jacked-up on hot sugary coco.