Took a suggestion from Niel Eyde to review the newer version of Personal Blog- wow. I started looking for some source and ideas only two weeks ago and in the last two weeks Personal Blog has really changed. There are some good ideas and Eric is headed in the right direction - moving the HTML to the jsp and Java to the Action Classes. Unfortunately i have already taken the older code and reworked it for my site - so i will continue to improve the code currently running. But i will still watch Personal Blog for great ideas in blog development.
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Saturday, June 21, 2003 Setting Up a Blogger
To create the blogging section of the site I looked for yet another open source project for code to base my development. I tried both Roller and Personal Blog because they were based on Struts. Roller is quite extensive since it is capable of being set up at a hosting site for several people to use - it is a collection of Struts, Velocity, Hibernate, Castor and others. It was a bit complicated but I may use some of the code.
So I used the code from Personal Blog by Niel Eyde. It is a Struts based weblogger but I changed most of it because it is the opposite design model than the one I use. Most of the java is in the jsp and most the html is in the java - so I wrote my own jsps and am rewriting the Struts action classes. The calendar code is as is - very tough to move the html out of the action class onto the jsp. Also adding DAO objects changing the database layer.
posted at 2107 hrs | Comments [2]Friday, June 13, 2003 Added a Webblog Today
Well I have created a weblog section to the web site - now the real challenge, adding content. I am going to focus on the development of the site in the blog and not many - if any - personal messages.
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