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Anyway, I'm excited the blog's up. We're going to post stuff here - regular bloggy things: What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.

Now that the quicklinks are out of the way, some explanation and highlights.

• Live preview and quicktags within the administration console when adding or editing entries. The live preview is great. You know what your entry will look like when it is posted. The quicktags insert common markup elements. It's also smart enough so that when you've opened a tag, it changes the button to the closing tag. The tags available are strong, emphasis, delete, underline, link (for creating hyperlinks, img for creating image references, ul for creating lists, li for creating list items, blockquote, pre, more, and dictionary lookup. Quite handy! You could customize this to add more elements if you want.
• The moblog plugin now correctly handles 1) HTML e-mails, 2) sending entries into individual categories, and 3) the ability to use a "secret word" when sending moblog entries so that unauthorized messages are not written.
• Added the Import tool plugin which allows you to include content from other URLs in your templates. I'm using this for my link blog, "Cinnamon Babka".
• Added the Word count plugin which counts words in your entries. This is useful if say you want to provide excerpt RSS feeds.
• You can customize the e-mail sent to the blog owner for comments and trackbacks on a per-user basis. We still need to provide editing of the comment or trackback template per-user from the administration console, but the functionality is there.
• Sandler and Textile4J updates.

If I had cinnamon babka'd these [ANN]'s from Mark, I could've had quippy little things to say, but they deserve a bonafide blog entry. Now I can finally get blojsom 2.15 out the door as well. So, Sandler 0.7 and Textile4J 1.20 are now available.

Thanks to all the folks who contributed to the releases.

Anyhoo, long story short ... I added a new blog, my link blog. In my main blog template, I use the new Import Tool plugin so that I can suck in the content from the link blog to my main blog. Quite simple. You can use this plugin regardless of whether or not you're using Velocity for your templates.

An announcement from Trey, lead singer of Phish.

Last Friday night, I got together with Mike, Page and Fish to talk openly about the strong feelings I've been having that Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. Once we started talking, it quickly became apparent that the other guys' feelings, while not all the same as mine, were similar in many ways -- most importantly, that we all love and respect Phish and the Phish audience far too much to stand by and allow it to drag on beyond the point of vibrancy and health. We don't want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act. By the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost twenty-one years together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude.

So Coventry will be the final Phish show. We are proud and thrilled that it will be in our home state of Vermont. We're also excited for the June and August shows, our last tour together. For the sake of clarity, I should say that this is not like the hiatus, which was our last attempt to revitalize ourselves. We're done. It's been an amazing and incredible journey. We thank you all for the love and support that you've shown us.

"In other cases, the acronym might be different when it is translated for a given locale. For example, the English acronym NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is known as OTAN (l'Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord) in French and NAVO (Noord Atlantische Verdrags Organisatie) in Dutch."

Also be aware of abbreviations. i18n, the abbreviation for internationalization is i19g (Internationalisierung) in German!

Discuss

Oh, and you can customize the comment and template e-mail per user!

Blogger hoodie
Atom Enabled t-shirt
blojsom leather band

Dork!

Subject: (some-secret-word)[/category_name] Subject of the e-mail used as title of the entry

This will be in blojsom 2.15. Almost done...

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The two reality shows are "Wife Swap," about real-life women who switch families, ...

dan (10:47:02 AM): Also, it's not actually taking any comments
dan (10:47:07 AM): they're not posting
me (10:47:54 AM): yeah they are
me (10:47:56 AM): i got your comment
dan (10:48:07 AM): yeah, k, ONE of them
dan (10:48:10 AM): I posted like 12
me (10:48:16 AM): HAHAHA!
dan (10:48:19 AM): Trying to figure out why only 1 appeared
me (10:48:24 AM): that's because of comment throttling
dan (10:48:30 AM): hahahahahahahahahaha
dan (10:48:30 AM): nice

• What makes a good cook vs. a good chef? Cook understands the process and the steps. A good cook can execute on dinner without having to follow the steps from a book or a recipe. A great chef is artistic. They understand the complexities of combining flavors, isolating aspects of food, etc.
• Ideal microwave would have 3 buttons: 30 seconds, coffee, and popcorn.
• An angel food cake pan usually has the center tube higher than the edges of the pan so you can turn it upside down to hang and cool so its not pressing on itself.
• Basic misconception people have with cooking is that they need more "stuff" to cook with as opposed to knowledge about cooking.
• Cutting board size should be 2-3" on each side when laying the knife diagonally.
• In the kitchen, everything is a part of the system ... everything relates to one another.

Highlights: No database required, comments, trackbacks, plugins, e-mail to blog, web-based administration, XML-RPC support, themes, generates all major syndication formats, multi-user support, multiple weblogs with a single installation).

I can still moblog (as I'm doing now), so expect some airport/travel-related camphone madness. The simplicity of never having to leave your e-mail client or browser.

• Our Groovy plugin allows you to write plugins for blojsom using Groovy. Quite useful for rapid prototyping of blojsom plugins or simply to make your plugins dynamic so that you can tweak them without having to restart your server.
• Don't want to use JSP, Velocity, or FreeMarker (all supported in blojsom) for writing your templates? Write templates using Groovy (handled by the Groovy dispatcher). It utilizes the Simple Template Engine.

No database required, comments, trackbacks, plugins, e-mail to blog, web-based administration, XML-RPC support, themes, generates all major syndication formats, multi-user support. The website has all the gory details on how highly configurable, flexible, and feature-full blojsom is right out of the box. Why use anything else?

How's it work?

#if ($entry.getMetaData())
  #if ($entry.getMetaData().get("after-blog-mint"))
    <p class="little" align="left"><hr/>
    <b>After Blog Mint</b>: $entry.getMetaData().get("after-blog-mint")
    </p>
  #end
#end

The installation instructions are now wikified. I posted a bunch of screenshots last night. Our plugins rock. Now that I can edit the changelog live and in real-time, we're back to codenames for releases. Many of the 1.x releases had codenames as well, but in the Forrest documentation migration, they were lost. FYI, most if not all of them are names of alcohols, 'specially the vodkas. You could say Mark and I have a "sweet tooth" for the fire water.

Next up on the documentation front are the "How do I ..." pages, which will be mini-tutorials on how to fully take advantage of all the good features in blojsom.

Just to get you thinking about one of the new features in blojsom 2.15, have a look at the changelog.

You can send entries to individual categories using the moblog plugin. Simply use a subject like:

Subject: [/category_name] Subject of the e-mail used as title of the entry

I just want to know whose idea it was to launch on Mother's Day? Then again, a bouquet of roses and a telephone call do a mother good.

As with all true blogging services, I'm posting this entry via e-mail, a capability now available in Blogger. Rock on. E-mail to blog is great. Too bad they don't support attaching images (or other media types) like you've got in blojsom. I assume that'll be available soon.

So, congratulations guys. Job well done.

As their corporate site says ...

Yes, it is true; The Longaberger Company's Home Office really is a basket! Actually, the building is a replica of our Longaberger Medium Market Basket, only 160 times larger.

Really ... check for yourself ... ... I'm not lying!

Developers in the Java ecosystem should have access to feeds and publishing services that's as easy to use as ordinary files.

And hey, if you want a go at adding Atom API support into your own Java tools, take a look at Sandler, a Java toolkit for creating and consuming Atom. It's the best, make no mistake about it!

Manzano e-mails his posts to his TypePad account, a hosting service run by Six Apart, publisher of the popular Movable Type blogging tool. The TypePad service does a lot of the magic; it's set up to accept blog entries by e-mail, making it very easy to maintain a blog from just about any e-mail-capable device.

An upcoming TypePad feature should make it easy: Manzano said TypePad is promising the ability to simultaneously post images and text. "I'm just waiting for it," Manzano said.

I'm taking it in today and I'll have it back tomorrow night. Joy

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To the capsize-ees I say this, "Dumbasses!"

• "I'm Rick James Bitch" - OK folks ... I love Dave Chappelle too, but the only thing we share in common is the same first name ... that and personality. And personality goes a long way. But, if you want the sound clip from Chappelle show, click here.
• Actually, there are a lot of Dave Chappelle searches leading to my blog. But seriously folks, do you really need "Rick James bitch buddy icons"? Wow ... just wow.
• "Axl jumped into the crowd" - Apparently the GnR Blogger template I blogged about is gone ... GONE I TELL YOU! Then again, maybe that's for the best as GnR is gone. Their memory will live on in "Best of..." collections that will net the artists little in royalties. Looks like the other members might've found a sound with Scott Wieland on vocals. I hear Axl is still searching for another brickwaller who wears masks and fast food buckets to complete his Chinese Democracy. Axl, please stop ... you're only going to hurt future generations of brickwallers.
• "Omarosa liar" - Is anyone surprised this woman gets booed at public functions?

Oops, I did it again!