Thursday January 25, 2007

Roller updated to 3.1 RC3

Since we are updating the Roller platform, might as well get the latest and greatest, which thus far is Roller 3.1 RC3.

The front page finally works, after a tweak to add the SiteModel to roller-custom.properties. Dave said we shouldn't have to do that, but apparently we still do :

# Set of models to be made available for weblog page rendering
rendering.pageModels=\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.PageModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.ConfigModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.UtilitiesModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.URLModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.MessageModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.CalendarModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.MenuModel,\
org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.SiteModel

Under Roller 3.0 previously, the front page didn't work even with this tweak. Well, you know what they say about "dot zero" versions ... :)

The calendar is still off by one day, despite a fix that should have been in by 3.1 RC2. Will have to look at this one later.

Other than that, there are just some minor cosmetic glitches in the blog templates.

Tuesday January 23, 2007

Roller updated to 3.0

Post1.Net is now running on Roller 3.0. It's a huge jump from 1.0 which we have been sitting on for ... years.

Our Java hosting provider EatJ has graciously allowed us to migrate to the new JDK-1.5 server running on Tomcat 5.5 without any additional charge. Might as well take this opportunity to update the Roller platform.

The migration has been much smoother than anticipated. Just some minor hiccups with the new front page layout, porting of the password hashes, and a db script that turned out to be un-needed.