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Sorry to get "political" on y'all, but "Spack" who uses blojsom to power the Maple Avenue Fire Department blog is also using blojsom to power The Richard M. Spackmann (Fire Commissioner '04) Campaign Blog. He's running for the position in the Greenfield Fire District (near Saratoga Springs, NY).

The Greenfield Fire District encompasses all of the Town of Greenfield and part of the Town of Wilton. The section of the Town of Wilton is defined by Maple Avenue, Northern Pines, Carr Road, Jones Road, Ingersol Road, Weibel Avenue, and Route 50 north back to Route 9 (Maple Avenue). The Maple Avenue Fire Department is the company that covers that area of the Greenfield Fire District. The rest of the Town of Wilton is covered by the Wilton Fire Department.

The site looks great! I'm impressed.

One of the new APIs that will be available in blojsom 2.18 is the event notification and listener API. It's probably similar to what MovableType has in terms of the application-level callbacks. We've got our own take and twist on things.

The blojsom event notification and listener API allows developers to write blojsom components (dispatchers, fetchers, listeners, and plugins) that respond to events from other blojsom components in a well-defined way. For example, based on an event indicating that a blog entry was added or updated, a listener or plugin could be written to respond to that event and "ping" a weblog update notification service like weblogs.com or blo.gs. Another example might be a listener or plugin which e-mails a list of individuals when a blog entry has been added to a blog.

The API is easy to work with and is as simple as implementing the BlojsomListener interface. Components that add themselves to the event broadcaster can also pass a filter so that the component only receives events it is interested in processing.

Other uses for this functionality might be to for a fetcher to update its cache when a new entry is available, a dispatcher that performs static rendering based on entry-related events, a plugin marking a comment as "pending" so that it can later be moderated. The list is endless. The hooks are now there for you to be able to write "active" components.