bedeviled mojo slop

I tried skiing for the first time tonight. I think I started to understand how to execute left turns along with a few pizza and french fry runs. Executing right turns was something I didn't really get, but then it was sort of the same trying to learn right turns on a snowboard. Driving back from the mountain I thought to myself, "Don't think in terms of left and right, think in terms of left and your other left."

From the Book of Revelations, David 12:27.

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Uh oh ...

Dec 04 23:07:48 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor24] servlet.BlojsomServlet - blojsom plugin execution: org.blojsom.plugin.widget.WidgetPlugin
Dec 04 23:07:48 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor24] widget.WidgetPlugin - Sending process widget request for widget: ip-widget
Dec 04 23:07:48 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor24] widget.WidgetPlugin - Sending process widget request for widget: search-widget
Dec 04 23:07:48 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor24] widget.WidgetPlugin - Sending process widget request for widget: hello-widget

And with a little widget love in the template ...

#DisplayWidgets()

We get ...

I guess this means blojsom is officially on the widget bandwagon!

Stay tuned for more information.

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I needed an excuse to get motivated about flushing out the blojsom 3 wiki pages.

So ... I've put up pages describing the plugin API and the event/listener API.

Plugin API you ask?

Plugins allow developers to add to the capabilities of blojsom in a well-defined way. Plugins can be responsible for changing how an entry is displayed, adding or removing information to an entry, making information or objects available to the templates, etc. You are not limited to what you can do with plugins. In fact, the web-based administration console was developed as a series of plugins.

Event and Listener API you ask?

The blojsom event notification and listener API allows developers to write components 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.

There are also some pages with plugin API examples and event/listener API examples. They're simple, but then decidedly so they illustrate key techniques of plugin development and things you might want to do with plugins.

Of course, this complements the "code" documentation that's already available (also here) if you want to see how some of the near 100+ plugins that have been written for blojsom.

Enjoy!

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