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• vmcNetFlix - Official Site - vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga
• The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac - The post is titled LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java, so to complete the picture I responded to the community with a message about how LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac.
• Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 | EcoGeek - In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.
• Jericho HTML Parser - Jericho HTML Parser is a powerful java library allowing analysis and manipulation of parts of an HTML document, including server-side tags, while reproducing verbatim any unrecognised or invalid HTML. It also provides high-level HTML form manipulation fun
• Software Sensation Inc. - jWebApp Web Application Framework, Install&Update, MemSL - Memory Structures Library - jPersist is an extremely powerful object-relational persistence API that is based on the Active-Record and Data-Mapper patterns. jPersist wraps JDBC functionality and can work with any relational database, and any type of connection resource
• Java Entrepreneur: We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer - Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite fra
• InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team - Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:
• How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days - Bill Gates - working for Microsoft - Bill Gates was amazingly technical, and he knew more about the details of his company's software than most of the people who worked on those details day in and day out.
• Unit testing with JUnit and EasyMock - Michael Minella - I hope this gives you a more in depth view into JUnit and EasyMock. Unit testing is something that once you get used to it, makes you code better, provides you with a safety net for future refactoring and protects you from being burned by API changes
• Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit | Javalobby - TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very rob

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• Databinder - Toolkit overview - Databinder is a Java programming toolkit for data–driven Web applications. It’s based upon the Wicket Web component framework and Hibernate object-relational mapping service.
• The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog - It is possible that Oracle could adopt an IBM-like strategy and keep both threads alive until things sort out, using ALBPM on top of Fusion as the straight BPMS offering, and the current ARIS+SOA Suite to support the apps business. In some ways that's the
• Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-06 | By Paul Krill - Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of RIAs that leverages Silverlight browser plug-in. The intent is to let developers continue using these languages on the client side without having to also in
• Sun bolsters SOA software with data management | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-08 | By Paul Krill - Sun Microsystems is updating its SOA and business integration software Monday, adding a data management option and leveraging enterprise service bus capabilities based around the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification.
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• Json-lib 2.2.2 released - JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.
• Google's GWT continues to amaze and delight - If you have checked out GWT then I urge you to give it a whirl, you will never look at another framework in the same way again.
• eXo Platform (Enterprise WebOS) » Blog Archive » eXo Platform: The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint - With the launch of eXo WebOS flagship product as the new type of Enterprise Portals and all its incoming optional modules such as eXo Enterprise Content Managment (eXo ECM) and eXo Collaboration Suite (eXo CS), we have been able to build the only true alt
• The 3G iPhone: First Impressions | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD - Less than one year after it was introduced at a hefty $599 price, the 8 GB model of the iPhone will now be two-thirds cheaper, at just $199.
• Atlassian Developer Blog - Story Cards - Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this "agile" stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them … right.
• LinkedIn - A Professional Network built with Java Technologies and Agile Practices - Learn how Java™ and agile practices are employed in building large-scale consumer internet sites like LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network.
• Blogging Roller: LinkedIn: 99% Pure Java - Nick Lothian tweeted about this JavaOne presentation on LinkedIn. What's particularly interesting to me are the diagrams that explain how the LinkedIn architecture has evolved to scale up to 22 million users

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• The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 - JRuby - Codehaus - JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby
• Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 - I've been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months.
• Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application - Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn't just a simple "me too" port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java.
• Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress - Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you
• Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 - CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained - In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs.
• Firefox DataAnalytics Help center - DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price?
• Anyterm - SSH via web - Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert - from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access
• Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 - Java World - In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations.
• Sun To Acquire MySQL - Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say "Data is the Intel Inside" of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0
• Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won't need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.
• Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers - "JasperReports for Java Developers" proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners
• GWT vs. FLEX - This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies.
• The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer - Forrester Research - Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard

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• alphaWorks Services | IBM Web Highlights | Overview - IBM Web Highlights is a social Web 2.0 application that allows quick creation, sharing, and discussion of Web snippets and Web pages. The snippets are in the form of highlights that can be independently created and then discussed between member.
• Top 3 SSIS Dataflow Mistakes - Brian Knight - There's an old saying that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If the SSIS data flow is your hammer, too many people thing treat the components in the data flow like nails and don't follow best traditional ETL practices
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• Thin - A fast and simple web server « Marc-André Cournoyer?s blog - Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: the Mongrel parser, Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability and Rack
• http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=205100034 - The list of financial firms deploying Web 2.0 applications, both within the enterprise and externally, is growing. TD Ameritrade, Bear Stearns and Wells Fargo all have announced new 2.0 applications in the last few months.
• Amazon?s EC2 Open Source Firefox Plugin - Developers using Amazon?s EC2 API might find this interesting: Amazon has created an open source project on SourceForge for ElasticFox, their Firefox extension that lets you create and manage EC2 instances from a GUI in the browser.
• PragDave: Two New Groovy Titles - Just to prove we're not totally Ruby-centric, we just took two books on Groovy into beta. Venkat has written Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer, a wonderful introduction to the language. And Scott Davis complements it with Gr
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• The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference - Developer Pills - So with no pre-compilation and caching for both SPs and SQL statments there is no advantage for SPs here, in some other databases the SPs compiled into C or C++ but this isn't the case in SQL Server 7.0/2000.
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• Open source and the corporate elephant | InfoWorld | News | 2007-12-12 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service - More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for projects, programmers and employers alike.
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Here is a list of blogs I read on a regular basis. If you're interested, you can download this list of blogs as an OPML file. OPML is browser-friendly with an XSL stylesheet.

• :Ben Metcalfe Blog
• /\ndy's Blog
• A Couple of Dutch Rants
• A List Apart
• A Sleepless Night in Tucson
• A Whole Lotta Nothing
• Abhi on Java
• Adam Bosworth's Weblog
• agile j2ee: rod johnson's blog
• Ajax Cookbook
• AJAX Magazine
• Ajaxian
• Alan Williamson
• alexbarnett.net blog
• alexking.org
• Alfresco Global Feed
• Alistair McLeod
• All Things Distributed
• Almost Effortless
• Alterra Coffee Roasters News
• Amazon Web Services Blog
• andreasviklund.com
• Andy Budd::Blogography
• Anil Dash
• Anil John
• Apache News Online
• Artima Articles
• Aspects of Software Development
• Atlassian Developer Blog
• Atlassian News
• Barry on WordPress
• Bastion
• bedeviled mojo slop
• Bela Labovitch's OPML blog
• BentUser
• Berkun blog
• BetaNews.Com
• Better Living through Software
• Between the Lines
• Bill Roth's Blog
• Bill Venners' Weblog
• Bits
• bLaugh - The (un)Official Comic of the Blogosphere
• Blog Maverick
• blog.memeorandum.com
• Blogbody
• Blogger Developers Network
• Blogging Pro
• Blogging Roller
• blogHelper
• Blogzilla - a weblog about Mozilla
• Bluejake
• bob mcwhirter
• bob's "backup to the future"
• Boing Boing
• BOINKOLOGY
• Bokardo - Social Web Design
• BookBlog
• Brennan's Blog
• Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog
• Business Logs
• BusinessWeek Online -- Blogspotting
• BusinessWeek Online -- Technology & Science
• BuzzMachine
• Carpetbagger
• Carthik Sharma
• Channel 9
• Chaotic Java
• Charlene Li's Blog
• Charlie Owen
• Chris Pirillo
• Christophe Coenraets
• Cisco High Tech Policy Blog
• Clemens Vasters: Alien Abductions Enterprises
• Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness
• coded ruminations
• CodeFeed
• Coding Horror
• Cognitive Daily
• ColbertNation.com
• collision detection
• Comments for bbPress Blog
• Computational Theology
• Confluence RSS Feed
• confused of calcutta
• Confused Of Calcutta
• Copyblogger
• Corporate Paranoia by Craig Walker
• Cracked Sidewalks
• Craig McClanahan's Weblog
• craigblog
• Crave RSS
• crawfordslist.com archive
• Creating Passionate Users
• Crooks and Liars
• CrunchGear
• CSS Import
• Daily Kos
• Daily.GigaOM
• Damon Payne
• Dan Gillmor's blog
• Danny's Blog
• Darren Hobbs
• Davanum Srinivas' weblog
• Dave Cheong | Engineer to Entrepreneur
• DaveBlog
• Dave's Stuff
• David Geary's Weblog
• David Karr's Blog
• davidbau.com
• davidtemkin.com
• del.icio.us
• del.icio.us/awsbuzz
• del.icio.us/scobleizer
• dev2dev Articles
• Dev2Dev Editor's Blog
• /dev/null
• digg / Programming
• digg / Security
• Digital Backcountry - Ryan Stewart's Flash Platform Blog
• Digital Inspiration
• Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
• Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
• dive into mark
• Dmitry Jemerov's Weblog
• Doc Searls' IT Garage -
• Don Box's Spoutlet
• Don Park's Daily Habit
• dooce
• Download Squad
• Dr. Java's tips for Tricks
• Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life
• Earth & Sky
• EchoDitto blogs
• Economist.com News Analysis
• Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
• Ed Brill
• EFF: Deep Links
• elemental links
• Emily Chang
• Engadget
• Engadget HD
• enplaned
• Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership
• Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium
• Eric Stahl's Blog
• Erik Hatcher - Blog
• Erik's Linkblog
• Erik's Weblog
• EverythingFlex.com
• evhead
• Extremetech
• F1-Live.com
• FactoryCity
• Family Guy
• Financial Armageddon
• Firebug - Web Development Evolved
• FlexBlog
• flexonrails.net
• FlickrBlog
• Fosfor Gadgets
• Foursprung
• Ftrain.com
• gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
• Gary McBride's Blog
• Gear Live
• Gearlog
• Geek News Central
• Geeking with Greg
• Get Rich Slowly
• GFMorris.org
• GigaOM
• Gizmodo
• Gizmowatch
• Glenn Vanderburg: Blog
• goldenfiddle -
• Google Code - Updates
• Google Web Toolkit Blog
• Grady Booch's weblog
• Graham Hamilton's Blog
• Greg Luck's WebLog
• Hacking Log 4.0
• Handbook of Software Architecture
• HDBlog.net
• High Life Heaven
• Home of the Future Monster
• How to Change the World
• I, Analyst
• I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS
• IBM developerWorks
• idea.log
• In Relation To...
• Inderjeet Singh's Blog
• Indeterministic braindump
• InfoQ Personalized Feed for Vinny Carpenter
• infoSync World
• Inhabitat
• Inside AdSense
• Inside Scoop on Java EE
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog
• Irving Wladawsky-Berger
• Jack Slocum's Blog
• James Duncan Davidson
• James Gosling: on the Java Road
• James Governor's Monkchips
• James Halberg
• James Ward's Blog
• Jason Carreira
• Java Tips, Views and Techniques
• java.blogs Hot Blog Entries
• java.net Daily Update
• java.net Weblogs
• java.net Weblogs by Bob Lee
• JavaDesktop Features
• JD on EP
• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
• Jeff's SQL Server Blog
• Jeremy Zawodny's blog
• Jim Cramer Blog
• Jim Waldo's Weblog
• )( JiWire - Wi-Fi How-To Guides and Resources
• jkOnTheRun
• Joe Beda's EightyPercent.net
• Joe Walnes
• Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog
• Joel on Software
• JoeTrippi.com
• John Battelle's Searchblog
• John Crupi's Weblog
• John Resig
• John Robb's Weblog
• John Topley's Weblog (All Content)
• Joi Ito's Web
• Jon Udell
• Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog
• Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog
• jQuery Blog
• JSR 168, WSRP, Portlets & Enterprise Portal
• Kathy Walrath's Blog
• ken-jennings.com
• Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
• kottke.org
• Latest entries from dynamicsemantics.blog-city.com
• Latest headlines from JavaWorld
• Latest Wordpress and Blogging News: Last 35 Posts
• Laugh Lines
• Lessig Blog
• Lifehacker
• Logemann Blog
• Loosely Coupled weblog
• Lucene in Action
• Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream
• macaroni - ted husted's blog
• madbean
• magpiebrain
• MAKE: Blog
• Marc Hadley's Blog
• Marginal Revolution
• Mark McLaren's Weblog
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Married... with children
• Marshall Brain's Blog
• Martin Fowler's Bliki
• Mashable!
• Mashable.com/weblist
• Mashups via Programmable Web
• Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
• Matt Goyer's Media Center Blog
• Matt Luce
• Matt on WordPress
• MaximDim
• MBlog
• MDLog:/sysadmin
• Medgadget
• Media Matters for America - Personalized RSS
• mediabistro.com: TVNewser
• memeorandum
• Michael's Random Thoughts
• Micro Persuasion
• Microsoft Watch
• Mike Clark
• mindstorm
• Mini Scobleizer
• Mini-Microsoft
• mir.aculo.us - Home
• MobileCrunch
• Modern Life
• molly.com
• Morgan Spurlock
• Narendra's Web Stuff
• Networking and Java
• Niall Kennedy's Weblog
• Nick Bradbury
• NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For Laptop Notebook Info
• NPR Blogs: Mixed Signals
• NPR Programs: Morning Edition
• NYT > Alessandra Stanley
• NYT > Technology
• Official Google Blog
• Official Google Reader Blog
• ongoing
• ONJava.com
• Ordered List by Steve Smith - Home
• O'Reilly Network Articles
• O'Reilly Radar
• O'Reilly Weblogs
• Otaku, Cedric's weblog
• PaidContent
• Panasonic Youth
• Parent Hacks
• Patrick Linskey's Weblog
• Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
• Peter Ent
• Photo Matt
• Pieter Humphrey's Blog
• Player Blog
• Pogue's Posts
• PolicyBeta
• PostSecret
• PragDave
• pragmatically.net
• PressThink
• ProgrammableWeb
• ProgrammableWeb: API Feed
• Pronet Advertising
• Prototype JavaScript framework - blog
• PVRblog
• Quoderat
• Raible Designs
• Random thoughts
• Rands In Repose
• RasterWeb!
• Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz)
• Ray Ozzie
• Read/WriteWeb
• Rebecca's Pocket
• redemption in a blog
• Robert C. Martin's Weblog
• Robert's shared items
• Rod Waldhoff's Weblog
• Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
• Ross Mason
• Ross Mayfield's Weblog
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
• Ryan's Scraps
• Sam Ruby
• sampa : colin's blog
• Save Baby Gavin
• Scoble
• Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
• ScottGu's Blog
• script.aculo.us web 2.0 javascript
• Scripting News
• Scripting News Annex
• Security Fix
• SecurityFocus News
• SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
• Semicolon
• Sergey Dmitriev's Blog
• Servlets.com Weblog
• Seth's Blog
• SFGate: Top News Stories
• ShirishRanjit.com
• Sifry's Alerts
• Simon Brown
• Simon Phipps, SunMink
• Simon Willison's Weblog Entries
• Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog
• SitePoint Blogs
• SitePoint.com
• SitePoint.com - Columnist Articles
• Skype Community News
• Slash7 with Amy Hoy - Home
• Smashing Magazine
• SnapFiles latest software
• Software And Tools
• Software is too expensive to build cheaply...
• Spring-Loaded
• StartupBoy
• Stephan Schwab
• Stopdesign
• Stronglytyped
• System.out
• tech decentral
• TechCrunch
• Techmeme
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It really is a sad state of affair when it comes to blog server software for Java and .NET. For the last few weeks, I've been working to introduce blogs and the concept of blogging internally at work and trying to pilot the use of blogs instead of the standard project portal. To that end, I figured I should really get the latest offerings from all of the blogging server software out there and put them through the paces to see which one works better than the other.

I've personally only used Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress in the past 5 years. The primary blog ran on Blogger for many years before I finally moved everything to WordPress. To make sure we're eating our own dog food, I decided to download Roller and Community Server (formerly. Text) and give them a whirl.

Being a Java guy, I was excited to download and install Roller, as it's one of the most popular Java blogging software out there. Boy, was I disappointed. I know this is free and open-source but installing and getting Roller running was a royal pain in the neck. The installation is documented fairly well for Tomcat but I have tons of servers running WebLogic and so I tried to deploy Roller under WebLogic. So I configure the appropriate datasources and authentication realms and try to deploy the application. I killed the server before I got a seizure from the fast scrolling stack-trace. Without boring you with all the details, it took me almost 8 hours to get Roller to work correctly under WebLogic. Having worked with J2EE containers for over 6 years, I know the reality of deploy-anywhere but this is ridiculous. How easy is it to create a web application that works on a bunch of different containers? I could not believe the effort it took to get this simple web application deployed. Take a look at Confluence - Java web application that configures itself and runs on every container out there. And other major issue I have with Roller is the lack of support for any other database platforms besides MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQL-DB. I love MySQL but I have Oracle running internally on big boxes that are backed up several times a day and actively monitored. But I can't use Oracle with Roller as it only supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQL-DB out of the box. With technologies like Hibernate, why do we still have applications written in Java that are so database platform bound? My next mission is to get Roller working with Oracle and then document (and blog) the hacks necessary to get Roller working under WebLogic and Oracle.

Another problem with Roller is the lack of community support and plug-ins. Coming from the WordPress side of the house, there is a plug-in for everything including the kitchen sink. Before you can think it, someone has already written a plug-in for it. (I should really look at Pebble and Blojsom)

Moving to the .NET side of house is not a pretty picture either. The blog engine that used to be named .Text is now rebranded as Community Server. The installation is pretty easy and product looks fairly robust. Telligent Systems is the company that's taken over development of .Text and the new product includes a discussion system, blogging system, and photo gallery system. The same lack of plugins or add-ons exists here and the 3 listed add-ons require a commercial license. Beyond the base blog functionality, there is nothing available.

Roller and Community Server work well once you get them installed. But anything beyond the basic requires custom development and I just feel that is not a good use of my time. To me, blog server software is a commodity and so I want to find something that's easy to use and has the most features. I know I am developer and I can sit down and write anything I need but my company pays me to add value in a different capacity.

WordPress on the other hand is unbelievable. It's written in PHP, which I can hack (if I had to) but all the plugins I've downloaded simply work. Download a plugin and just drop it in the plugins directory and you're off and running. The big deficiency for WordPress in my opinion is that it only supports MySQL as a database platform but the value proposition provided by all the functionality is just incredible. I just hope Roller can catch-up as competition is great and really helps drive innovation.

Tags: blogger, blogs, blojsom, confluence, deploy, java, Java/J2EE, pebble, Roller, Tech, WebLogic, WordPress

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