Category Archives: Java

Roller shows a list of recent entries and recent drafts on the left sidebar of the weblog editor page. This is a really handy little feature and lets you access entries and drafts really quickly. The problem is that only … Continue reading →

I'm using Roller 1.2 for this blog at the moment. Roller 2.0 is out, but I'm in the middle of a beta-testing a new product so I'm not going to risk upgrading for a few weeks yet, in case I … Continue reading →

One thing about my current theme that was really annoying me was that my trackback URLs were pushing into the sidebar. Roller trackbacks are faily long, and there's no way I was going to go mucking about with the code … Continue reading →

So it looks like I'm not the only one who's a bit annoyed about crappy API documentation. Even Microsoft can't get it right. And I'm not surprised. How many Microsoft developers have been on a creative writing course? Something to … Continue reading →

So this post is part of my continuing series on hacking Roller. I use the textile plugin when typing up most entries as it saves on the amount of typing you have to do. If I'm going to write up … Continue reading →

My recent post about documentation writing and technical writers was a little off the cuff and quite easy to misinterpret. I suppose the phrase “throw some technical writers at it” didn't help either. To clarify: I think technical writers are … Continue reading →

I've been writing a lot (and I mean a whole lot) of JavaDoc lately. It's all for the new Ricebridge product, to be announced Real Soon Now. One of the things that I like to do with my components is … Continue reading →

Roller is working out pretty well. No road blocks so far for anything that I wanted to do. However, my approach is probably not the easiest way to do things. I have set up the main layout of the site … Continue reading →

Well my little hack of atom.vm to produce valid atom 1.0 output was buggy: I got caught out by the atom content element and the existing showEntryDescription($entry) macro (in weblog.vm). This escapes the content which is not at all the … Continue reading →

I've never really used Velocity templates before. Sure I checked them out, but I have written my own template engine, Jostraca, so I've never seen the need to use Velocity. Well, Velocity templates are really pretty easy to pick up. … Continue reading →