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Wednesday, 3 November 2004

Source postback from Apple to blojsom (pt. 2)

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Now that I've had a chance to check out the source that Apple sent me, here are some initial observations.

Their code lives under the com.apple.blojsom package. Nice!
As far as changes to the core blojsom API, i.e. code living under the org.blojsom.* package (excluding plugins and extensions), from what I can tell, there were 6 lines of code changed (4 additions, 2 if statement changes). Any substantial development was done in the plugins. Maybe you didn't really take notice of the fact that my development has been in the plugins with almost no changes to the core API. I'm accepting this as initial validation that we've got a decent approach for allowing anyone to add functionality to blojsom.
8 plugins. The ones that I'll focus in on are their inline editing plugin and the localizer plugin.
I need to check out the included template to adapt that for the theme switcher plugin.

There is one real mindbender for a lot of this ... for me at least. As they incorporate changes from the blojsom codebase, eventually those additions and enhancements will make their way into a Weblog Server update. Eventually some administrator is going to have to click on that blue Apple in the top-left portion of their screen and click Software Update. The magical internet pixies will then deliver the update and place it in the right place.

Here's to you magical internet pixies /images/emoticons/mozilla_laughing.gif