bedeviled mojo slop

Uh oh spaghetti-oh! It looks like Mark is back doing some coding for blojsom and he's whipped up a Weather Plugin. As I understand it, it parses data from the National Weather Service and makes an object available to your template where you can print out details on weather in your area. For example (screen capture from his site):

There are still lots of plugins or other goodies to be written for the blojsom developers contest.

Apologies if the category template plugin was on the list of plugins you're working on for the blojsom developer contest, but ...

Basically this plugin allows you to load a separate template per category. So, you can style all of your categories with separate templates. Check out the "evil experiments" category. You'll notice it uses the new blojsom theme: Ocean. If you click on individual entries, they use the Ocean theme as well. Same goes for the individual entry comment pages and trackback pages.

A user on our mailing list wrote in asking about disabling Velocity because his host didn't allow Velocity. It'd be nice if they'd revisit the issue since it's been almost a year and a half and Velocity has changed a bit since August of 2003. That forum page is light on details.

And yes, Velocity can be disabled in blojsom. blojsom, "out of the box", allows you to use JSP or Velocity to develop templates. The add-on bundle available for blojsom also adds two dispatchers where you can use FreeMarker or Groovy to write templates for blojsom. The web administration console pages are written in Velocity, so if you really needed to rip Velocity the hell out of there, you could convert the pages to FreeMarker syntax along with the template macros and you'd be good to go.

How the Mac was born, and other tales, Andy Hertzfeld (co-creator, Apple Macintosh)

Blogging is changing the way people communicate. Are you a blogger?

No. I think people overrate blogging. I think the overall phenomenon to me is Web pages. Blogs are just Web pages, a certain stylized form of Web page. Much of the blogging is driven by egotism.

I'm down on podcasts. I think that's ridiculous. Suddenly you're taking the information and making it completely inaccessible. You can't read it, and besides a podcast is nothing. It's streaming MP3s that's good, but no one can take credit for inventing a new term because streaming MP3s is simple and has been around for a while. Doing it through RSS enclosures is basically bad--to automatically download big files before hearing them. The whole thing about audio is that it has small enough bandwidth that you can stream. You just can't stream from an iPod because it doesn't have a network connection, yet. I'm excited about getting an iPod with 802.11 so I can stream to my AirPort Express without carrying my Mac around.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.