Thursday, 6 January 2005

More blojsom blogs to check out

Sorry ... I've been lax in posting an update on new sites I've come across using blojsom.

Singin The Doom Song All Day
Advisen Focus
Miles' Blog
Adam Kruszewski
Natalia BÄ…kowska
Blogging@PiPrograms
Hiberforum
Agylen Blog

Not on our "powered by sites" list? Let me know and I'll add your site.

Posted by david at 8:38 PM in java ... just java

Deploying blojsom in JBoss 4.0

After Simon posted an entry on deploying Pebble on JBoss 4.0 I figured I'd see if there were any gotchas in deploying blojsom under JBoss 4.0.

NOTE: I did this under JBoss 4.0.1 as well.

Good news is you can still go by the existing instructions to install blojsom on JBoss.

Bad news is that you're going to modify the Tomcat server.xml to enable proper UTF-8 support for proper internationalization handling. My guess is that you'd need to do this for other blog software packages as well.

Go into the /jboss-4.0.1/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar directory, open up the server.xml file and add URIEncoding="UTF-8" to the various <Connector ... /> elements that require internationalization support.

Example:

<!-- A HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->
<Connector port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>

That's about it. Using the blojsom quickstart bundle, it's still basically download, deploy, and blojsom is running. That and the little extra UTF-8 bit. No big whoop. /images/emoticons/mozilla_laughing.gif

Posted by david at 8:32 PM in java ... just java

2 Vodkas You Need To Try

42 Below. Smooth.

The website is funny as all hell. The Flashimation they've got on their site has a bar with 4 people sitting at it. Wait long enough and the girl at the far end of the bar (towards the back of your screen) falls off her barstool. If you've got your sound on, she hits the floor when you hear a loud THUWMP! That and the guy snags a smooch from the girl standing next to him.

Pravda. Pure.

What about Poland? /images/emoticons/mozilla_laughing.gif

Posted by david at 7:56 PM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Local Politics and Blogs: A Winning Combination

Hats off to Richard Spackmann (aka Spack) who won his local election for fire commissioner.

A record turnout for Commissioner elections netted 107 votes for me & only 7 for my challenger

94 % of the vote. I'd say that's a mandate /images/emoticons/mozilla_laughing.gif
Posted by david at 1:45 PM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Open Proxy Moderation plugin

Open Proxy Moderation plugin for blojsom.

Open proxy check plugin for comments and trackbacks. This plugin queries the Distributed Sender Blackhole List if a comment or trackback is submitted.

This plugin can be used in conjunction with other moderation plugins like the Math Comment Moderation Plugin. That way, even if the math question was answered correctly, if the comment was coming from an open proxy, it'd be destroyed or moderated. It seems like successfully playing the comment/trackback spam game is about multiple techniques that work in conjunction with one another.

Also, someone had written to me about their work on a blojsom plugin that does what MT-Blacklist does. So, when that's available I'll let y'all know.
Posted by david at 12:25 PM in blojsom ... all blojsom

On Six Apart acquiring LiveJournal

A toast to all the Six Apart and LiveJournal crews.
Posted by david at 10:22 AM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
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