Trying out all these blog-programs turns out to be quite an experience.
And, I’m learning heaps of how lots of people prefer writing their java
programs. My todo-list is growing by the minute.

So, just to see what
this progam was like I fired up Windows and installed w.bloggar. My
main objection to w.bloggar and every other client I’ve used so far is
that they don’t really support images well. I do “insert image” and
they expect me to give an URL. Well, in most cases I’ve probably have
the image on my Canon Ixus or my mobile phone. I expect to have to
download the images to my computer, but from there I’d like to just
stick it in my post, letting the client and my blog server handle the
uploading between them.

Secondly, I’m looking forwards to plugins. My picture gallery is a
hack. I’m going to have a better stab at it, but it’ll include my
Apache-server, so it won’t be all within the webapp domain. I’d prefer
it to be so, because you cannot really expect long-time consistency
having o juggle a blog on two or three servers. And although I use PHP
and Python heaps, I don’t really feel like mixing them in.

Further more, I really need to get rid of this URL if I’m going to
substitute my homepage for a blog.

A last notice, posting this through w.bloggar removed all the newlines
thus making my entire posting unreadable. When I pressed edit in
roller, the title showed up but the contents didn’t. In short, this
sucks, there are clearly problems between the two (Roller is probably
at least as much to blame), but hey, that saves me starting up Windows

PS, when give me plugins… although so-called emoticons are plain
stupid, I wouldn’t mind a plugin converting the ones I write until some
that look good

Well, I figured I might as well try a post with Weblog Poster. It sais it can handle the Blogger API, so let’s check out right away if it can handle newlines.

That was a new line.

Whew,
the log script just finished now. And all looks well.

So, now I have to make sure Tomcat fires up all right all the time and
that the cat rebooting (don’t you just love that idea? ) works all
right for users tweaking their system. Then I’ll hopefully have time
for the dummynet implementation.

A couple of jar-files look like being in conflict. Strange, as I have
no idea why someone would dist java.util-jars. Anyways, got that
cleaned up and our main apps are purring nicely again.

The templates for our statistics aren’t applied correctly. I imagine
there are some path conflicts there. Applied some logging yesterday,
time to investigate…. hmm… classpath is incorrect. Fixed.

Now for fixing file permissions when generating new users….

I’ve been toying around a bit with my blog, just to see how it works
and to provoke the code a bit to get more experience with managing
webapps. So far, things seem to be working well. I just need the URL
changed into something a bit nicer looking.