bedeviled mojo slop

• "tito jackson" - I would never blog about this idiot. Oh wait, I did. My bad
• "bad mamma jamma" - The "evil" blog.
• "adam curry" - I Want My MTV. Up yours Nina Blackwood!
• "skateboarding is not a crime" - Stealing is a crime. Wearing a brown belt and black shoes is a crime. But skateboarding, it is certainly not a crime.
• "dirty dancing livejournal icons" - Wow. Just ... wow! All I've got to say on this one is, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"
• "carmen and dave invitation" - Yeah, I'm still waiting for mine too! Jane says it's in the mail.
• "download nirvana unplugged" - I guess some 14 year olds just got their first guitar and have "angst". My suggestion is to start with Nevermind.
• "janet jackson's height" - 5'9". 36, 24, 36. Wait. Ummmmmmmmm, no comment
• "kaffir lime vodka" - There is no other than Hangar One. The ... best ... ever!
• "mojo in the morning" - I've got my mojo workin' 24/7/365 beotches!
• "suicide rates on valentines day" - My guess is high. Get a woman. Get a man. Do whatever. Eat more chocolate. But don't kill yourself.
• "bands reunitednuno" - Yeah, he's still a windbag
• "blinged out" - When in doubt, bling it out. It's the way of the tru playa.
• "albany ny bombers burrito" - Best burritos. EVER!
• "janet jackson illegitimate child" - Well, that's it ... My secret is out!

Kiss this

So, let me detail its importance, at least related to blojsom.

• I've demonstrated to myself that blojsom's abstraction of the underlying data storage can work. Did it work without changes to core objects? No. Did I think it would work without changes? No. Were those changes severe? Not at all!
• I can now say that we've demonstrated the abstraction works. You can play with the code. Previously I could only say the abstraction was there. Now there's code to backup my claim.
• Related to the abstraction, there's now more than one implemented abstraction for very key aspects to blojsom. Namely, the presentation API, where blojsom can handle JSP, Velocity, and FreeMarker. And now the data storage API, where blojsom can handle simple file-based blogging and XML file-based blogging with XStream.
• In putting together XStream blojsom, there were some changes made to the underlying codebase. Details in a moment.
• XStream makes XML marshalling/unmarshalling quite simple. As such, I did change the Comment and Trackback plugins and the EditBlogEntries plugin to reflect the abstraction. I am now looking at abstraction of the current blojsom API so that no changes to plugins or core objects would be required when migrating to another data storage mechanism. That is, blojsom will improve.
• Things like XML-RPC still work. Rock on!

• BlogEntry.java - Marked Log instance transient.
• FileBackedBlogEntry.java - Marked Log instance transient.
• XStreamBlogEntry.java - Subclasses from FileBackedBlogEntry.java. Only overrode the load, save, and delete methods to use XStream.
• StandardFetcher.java - All creation of blog entries and categories now uses the newBlogEntry and newBlogCategory methods, respectively.
• XStreamFetcher.java - Subclasses from StandardFetcher.java. Only overrode the newBlogEntry method to return a XStreamBlogEntry object instead of a FileBackedBlogEntry object.
• CommentPlugin.java - As a result of storing all blog information in a single XML file, I simplified the code to add a new comment. I will need to look at how the abstraction can apply to the current file-backed storage.
• TrackbackPlugin.java - As a result of storing all blog information in a single XML file, I simplified the code to add a new trackback. I will need to look at how the abstraction can apply to the current file-backed storage.
• EditBlogEntriesPlugin.java - As a result of storing all blog information in a single XML file, I simplified the code to delete comments and trackbacks.

In summary, blojsom is a lightweight blog package written in Java that is inspired by blosxom. blojsom aims to retain the simplicity in design of its Perl-based "relative" while adding user flexibility in areas such as flavors, plugins, storage, and templating.

The code is there to back that up. Enjoy!

• Serialization code moved out of the elements and into its own package. Mark has included a DefaultSerializer which outputs to a Writer and a StringSerializer which outputs to a String. This should make it even easier to do things like pretty print the XML and what not.

4- Ito’s blog is hard to follow. She goes from entries that are given context, such as the entry on San Francisco gay marriages, straight to an entry that says "Six Apart makes Fast Company 50. Yay and congrats! My company Neoteny is an investor in Six Apart". Maybe it is just my lack of computer knowledge again, but what in the hell does that mean? I’ve never heard of "Six Apart," "Fast Company 50," or "Neoteny." Additionally her posting doesn’t make me interested enough to follow any of her links to find out what these things are. It seems way too self-indulgent, as if she is congratulating herself on making such a wise choice. I guess I dislike things that make me feel like I’m out of the loop…an outsider. Ito seems to do this often.

So, to Andy, I'll be releasing blojsom 2.11 tonight. Upgrade if for nothing other than an update to the Conditional GET plugin which you should use because Conditional GET will save y'all some bandwizzle for your outgoing RSS trafizzle That an an updated administration interface that doesn't suck!

plugin-comment-throttle=5
plugin-trackback-throttle=5

Update (2-6-2004): Comment throttling means that when a comment is left by an individual, their IP address is recorded along with the time their comment was added to the system. They cannot make another comment (from that IP address) for another X minutes depending on what value the blog owner has set for the comment throttle parameter. The same applies to trackbacks since they can now be throttled as well.

Basically it works by adding the plugin to the plugin.properties of the blojsom installation, adding the plugin to the plugin chain for the blog. It's being use by either having a meta-entry-date=<yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM> in the blog. If that is not there ther file names is being checked if it ends with <yyyy-mm-dd-HH-MM.ext>, if that is not the found it will use the file's last access time.

"What's gonna be next? It's getting crazy, and it's all down to money. Money and fame," said Lee, the director of "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing." "Somehow the whole value system has been upended."

Oh, and your movies suck.

How in the hell could I have initially said no to the plugin API? The mind boggles. Our "milkshake" is definitely better than yours in that area. I'm damn sure of it. And what other blog software allows you to develop templates in JSP, Velocity, or FreeMarker? Only blojsom! And you can mix-and-match there too! And then there was the XML-RPC support. Happy to say we're rockin' in that arena. Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and Atom API ... all supported. Do I have to mention multi-contributor, multi-blog support? That was a major milestone in 2003.

What does 2004 have in store for blojsom? You're going to see some updates to blojsim (Instant Messenger add-on), finally I'll be checking in the code for the moblog plugin, playing around with a DatabaseFetcher, more plugins, and much more.