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[JemBlog-Develop] Synchronizing CVS

[Ian D. <ia...@in...>]

Danny, if you're still thinking about CVS synchronization, have a look
at http://www.cvsup.org/. I haven't tried it (yet) but it seems to do
the trick.

- Ian <ia...@in...>
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

[JemBlog-Develop] Hi (at last!)

[Ian D. <ia...@in...>]

I finally got some spare time so I've joined the list and downloaded
the zip of JemBlog. I'll have a play with it this afternoon/evening
and come back with my thoughts later!



- Ian <ia...@in...>
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

[JemBlog-Develop] JemBlog : a little progress...

[Danny A. <dan...@vi...>]

Finally I've got a bit of time to play with JemBlog!

At the moment I'm just looking at the modelling, and have roughed out most
of the interfaces and a bit of implementation. What I'm aiming for first of
all is for the snippet below to work from the command line.

Quite a bit of the implementation so far is built around the FeatureSet
classes I put together for Ideagraph. A FeatureSet has functionality and
purpose similar to java.util.Properties except the data is saved as RDF/XML
via Jena. I'll write this up soonish, but basically a FeatureSet is just a
set of name, value pairs (there's also a 'type' attribute, but you can
ignore that). I'm using them in JemBlog to retain config info.

(The FeatureSet stuff works ok for the current purpose, but is also intended
to allow nesting - an item in a FeatureSet can be a FeatureSet itself,
unfortunately I broke this somewhere...)

At the moment I'm using a local CVS server (not online) and have the JemBlog
stuff in my main development tree, using Ant to spin out the relevant
stuff - I'd like to put this on sourceforge's CVS but I haven't a clue how
to go about syncing between my development machine (using Eclipse's CVS),
the local CVS server and sourceforge's. Any ideas?

So I've zipped up what I've got so far (source & javadoc) and put it on the
web (package list below) :

http://ideagraph.net/jemblog/

(the notes linked from this page are already out of date)

Any suggestions, thoughts, (or code!) very welcome...

Cheers,
Danny.

The packages :

org.idea.jspsite - cruft, ignore
(there's cruft in the org.idea bits and elsewhere in the zip, but the
org.jemblog part should be pretty clean)

org.idea.common.features
	the FeatureSet stuff

org.idea.common.util
	yet another RdfUtils class

org.idea.common.vocabularies
	Jena class versions of RDF schemas

org.jemblog.blog
	classes used to represent a blogs

org.jemblog.filter
	classes used to filter RSS channels (/RDF models)

org.jemblog.rss
	classes used to represent RSS elements

org.jemblog.users
 	classes used to represent users


The snippet :

//  Initialize system
BlogManager.init();

// Create a user
User me = BlogManager.usersDB.createUser();
me.setName("John");
me.setPassword("secret");

// Create a blog
Blog myBlog = BlogManager.blogsDB.createBlog();
myBlog.addUser(me);
myBlog.setTitle("John's Blog");

// Add an item to the blog
Item item = myBlog.createItem("http://example.org");
item.setTitle("Big news!");
item.setDescription("Today a new blog was created");

// Get the RSS representation of the blog
System.out.println(myBlog.getChannel());

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http://dannyayers.com

[JemBlog-Develop] Hi & Status

[Danny A. <dan...@vi...>]

Hi,

The current status of this project is *new*!

I'm running a little late, but hopefully by this time next week I'll have
some usable code together and up on the sourceforge site. I'll do a bit of
documentation too. I've got most of the basic classes together, with most
the site management information being handled through FeatureSets. These are
objects in a mini-API I put together for Ideagraph, in which things like
config info and preferences can be stored (similar to java.util.Properties)
but the persistence is in RDF, through Jena. I'm aiming to get as much of
the work as possible done in classes, so that the JSP can be really simple
(later it'd be good to use custom tags, but that's another story).
Anyhow, expect an update within the week.

Cheers,
Danny.