Here we go…
I’ve finally moved off from JRoller, after almost four years of pain, suffering, tears, blood, sweat, and putting up with one of the worst pieces of software ever to grace javaland.
I’ve always wanted to move, the reasons not to however were:
- Too lazy: Inertia is a wonderful thing, and I have better things to do with my time that faff about trying to install some kind of bloggy thingy
- jroller sorta worked: I could post, people could view stuff. What more could a guy ask for?
Of course, the straw that broke the camel’s back is that referer logging has been turned off for months now, so it’s impossible to find out what’s bringing people to the bileblog (if anything at all), or whether anyone still read it (sniff).
I would like to thank Matt and our Fearless Leader Rick Ross at JavaLobby though, for at least pretending to care every now and then, ultimately though the roller app was just so abysmal at doing anything, so ugly while doing it, and so incompetent in the odd occassion when it did manage to do something, that it was just impossible to get anywhere.
It’s a sad statement on the Java world, that our main offering in the name of blogging platforms is so horrific and useless, with about as much sex appeal as a cocktail of Rod Johnson moobmilk, Bill Berk pantycrust, and garlic scented Fluery gavinguice.
Bitch and whine about the new site in your comments on this post, and I’ll dutifully ignore it all, just so everyone is comfortable and to show you that nothing has changed.
Anyway, the rest of the TSS coverage coming up soon hopefully.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
First!
March 25th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
a jroller ran over my flowerbeds once - they were squashed flat including my prize roses
March 25th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I for one would like to welcome our new bile sluice.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I moved my from from JRoller to my own WordPress for the exact same reasons. The lack of logs was driving me nuts and I’m not even talking about the random reliability…
March 26th, 2007 at 4:00 am
I also moved from a java based blog system (blojsom) to wordpress 2 weeks ago without regret. Its just so more polished and its more fun to work with.
March 26th, 2007 at 5:28 am
So WTF is happening in the Java World? All the Java Guru’s use PHP applications, pimp with RoR and don’t eat their own dog food? If even the guru’s do so, what should the mindless java folk think?
March 26th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Another Curious Creature: there is only one logical conclusion…Java is dead.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:39 am
And about this “logo” under The BileBlog… I am trying to see a homosexual meaning about that!!!!
March 26th, 2007 at 6:40 am
What’s this Jarva? Script. I herd it was for drawing web pages and writing graphics.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Why is the logo background in blue ? Shouldnt it be in red/orange ? after all it is bile we’re talking about here. Something acidic
March 26th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I wanted a Java-based blog at my last company because that was what we had deployed on our servers. I never got very far with JRoller, but I found another one named Pebble that we really liked. http://pebble.sourceforge.net/ It easily hosted multiple blogs, had the features we wanted, and was easy to use and customize. This was an internal developer blog, so I added code, as an example, to recognize references to issue #’s in blog text and turned those into links to the issue tracker.
The one downside is that it currently seems like a one-man project so I am sure it lacks some of the features and polish of the more established tools. Given that this was my first blog server, I probably do not know some of the things I was missing from the other tools, but this worked well.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Is this site a .NET application?
March 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
>what should the mindless java folk think?
- Change all their CMS with PHP and RoR implementations which are all $0
- Continue saying PHP code is hard to maintain and not OO, RoR is another way to write LOL
- Continue saying we have a shiny “Groovy” etched at the dashboard, EJB3/JSF/Spring/Guice/clogging/slf4j/blablabla is the best thing since sliced bread
- Continue charge customer with exorbitant amount of money to keep themselves alive
- Keep their 40-hour working week as one of “Extreme Programming” practices
- Enjoy the huge income earned by delivering mind-snatchers made of software
March 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
I like the new design! and yes jroller is ass.
I’ve been playing around with pebble too though, it seems like a pretty nifty app.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
“Roller blogger” is actually improved recently, the problem is the “jroller” pages. they keep their sucking database settings and their i18n sucks big time. Anyway, a word of warning, be careful with wordpress, i saw a lot of hacked wordpress blogs ;)
March 26th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
As a matter of interest, why Wordpress? I’ve always found it a bit flaky for high-traffic blogs; Movable Type, Blogger etc. seem to do better (I assume because the actual blog is static with them).
March 26th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Yeah, second day wasn’t good at all. I looked at the session list and went to the Grand Canyon. 5 hour drive. Well worth it. They really need to build a fence around some of the tourists stops, people die all the time.
Anybody else go to Chet Haase’s Filthy Rich Clients session, I felt sad for the guy. He was almost apologizing for being there.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
The old blog was always getting cut-off from the side. This one is not great, but at least it’s better.
March 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Zarar: Ouch! That hurts. I was supposed to deliver this talk but I could not come to the US for TSS. I got invited to talk about Swing rich clients and I felt it kinda weird considering the name of the conference. I guess Chet felt the same :) At least you must have seen some fancier graphics than in other sessions ^^
Another Curious Creature, van, etc. I would dare say that pragmatic developers choose the right tool for the right job. As it turns out, PHP/Wordpress is an excellent fit for a personal blog. Advocating Java everywhere is dumb. As is advocating RoR or PHP for everything. I feel stupid to say such obvious things but apparently, some still need them :)
March 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
>I would dare say that pragmatic developers choose the right tool for the right job.
sure, me too. But this is BileBlog…
March 27th, 2007 at 2:02 am
> with about as much sex appeal as a cocktail of Rod Johnson moobmilk, Bill Berk pantycrust, and garlic scented Fluery gavinguice.
What a wonderful image. This will prove very useful whenever I need to punish someone proper for writing System.exit(1); in a servlet.
By the way, WordPress is only marginally better than JRoller, I presume. The difference is that it wont hurt as much when it kills your soul. Have a nice day (I know I will) and keep the bile coming. :)
March 27th, 2007 at 8:20 am
I prefer the bileblog.com ;-)
March 30th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
This is the bile blog. The place where Hani plays with his thingie. Oh what a small thingie, little baby!
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 am
What’s with the new Picasso meets gaping goatse hole logo that you chose for your new Internet Web Blog?