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My name is Aaron Johnson and I created this blog both for me (mostly) and sometimes you. I've been saving mydeliciouspinboard.in links here and blogging since 2002. During the week (and at night and some weekends and well.. most of the time), I work in engineering at Jive Software. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my amazing wife, ourdinosaurStar Wars loving son and four chickens in the burbs outside of Portland, Oregon.See Also
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Category Archives: Open Source
instantFeeds: real time notification of RSS updates via Openfire
I wrote a long winded post a couple months ago with a nebulous title called “IM and RSS: Rome is on Fire” where I talked about the feed bot that I wrote for Wildfire (which is now called Openfire). It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Jabber, Open Source, Robots, Syndication
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ROME and wfw namespace elements
I created a ROME parser and generator for wfw:comment and wfw:commentRss elements today. You can read all about it here and download the source code here. Not sure what the wfw:comment or wfw:commentRss elements are for? Imagine you’re reading my … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Syndication, XML
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OGNL: getter and setter types must match
Yesterday I ran into a interesting bug with the WebWork application I spend my waking hours working on, at least initially I thought it was a WebWork bug. I had a WebWork action with a getter / setter combination that … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Uncategorized, WebWork
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ROME, custom modules, publishdate and RSS
At work, I’ve taken on the work of migrating our RSS feeds currently being produced using JSP to ROME. Since we’ve added a few custom elements to the feeds available in Jive Forums (things like message and thread counts), I’m … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Software Development, Syndication
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JDJ: Mailets and Matchers
Remember back a couple months ago when I posted an article about using Apache James to implement VERP? Well, it actually did end up getting published in JDJ. If you subscribe to the magazine, you should have it in your … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Personal
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JSON: Making Content Syndication easier
At work we’ve been having some discussions about sharing content between two websites: the natural first option was an XML solution, in this case RSS. Site A would subscribe to the RSS feeds of the site B, periodically retrieving the … Continue reading
Posted in Content Management, J2EE, JavaScript, Open Source, Software Development, XML
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WebWork and meaningful URLs
Personal pet peeve: meaningful URLs (which tonight I found out go by many names: pretty URLs, RESTian URLs, SES URLs, hackable URLs, etc…). At work, we use WebWork extensively but up until this point we haven’t made an effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Content Management, Interface Design, Open Source, WebWork
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Wildfire Enterprise launches..
For the last couple weeks I’ve been working on the ‘Deep, Real-time Reporting’ features of Wildfire Enterprise, which officially launched today (if you’ve ever thought about messing around with instant messaging / XMPP / Jabber, I’d highly recommend checking it … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Jabber, Open Source, Personal, Software Development
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Using Apache James and JavaMail to implement Variable Envelope Return Paths
I submitted a skeleton of the article that follows to JDJ, was told they would like to ‘commission’ it and then finally submitted it only to never hear anything back from them. So instead you get to read it here. … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Software Development
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Nutch, Yahoo!, and Hadoop
It’s been awhile since I mentioned anything about Lucene, my favorite Java based open source indexing and search library (which I built the karakoram spider / search application around). Doug Cutting, who created Lucene and who has spent the last … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Lucene, Open Source, Software Development
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