Apache JSPWiki

posted 09:29PM Aug 11, 2007 with tags apache asf jspwiki opensource by Lars Trieloff

Via Dave Johnson I learn that there is a proposal to move JSPWiki to the Apache Incubator, which I regard as a great idea as the Apache Community and the JSPWiki community could benefit from each other and JSPWiki one of the two Wiki systems I use daily.

Fixing Planet Apache's OPML

posted 10:37PM May 06, 2007 with tags apache blogbridge opml planet by Lars Trieloff

Recently I changed my RSS reader setup to reflect the new features in Blogbridge 5: I no longer subscribe to the various planets I have been reading: Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc., but combine the ability of the Planet software to create an OPML file, containing a listing of all blogs aggregated, including their feed URL. Blogbridge in turn is able to subscribe to all feeds mentioned in such an OPML file, so I pointed Blogbridge to the OPML files of Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc, unsubscribed from all aggregated Planet feeds and are now subscribed to really many feeds ( I get this aggregated listing by publishing the OPML of all my subscribed feeds using the Blogbridge service, combined with Share Your OPML, a great service by Dave Winer).

There was only one problem: I suddenly lost all my Planet Apache subscriptions due to a mis-formed OPML file. Planet Apache's OPML file did not contain the feed URLs, so I investigated this issue and found a small bug in the OPML template that mixed up url and uri variables and is fixed by now. As a result, feed urls are in Planet Apache's OPML again and my feed list is again a little bit more interesting.

My FOAF file on people.apache.org

posted 05:04PM Dec 13, 2006 with tags apache foaf by Lars Trieloff

people.apache.org is a very cool application of the FOAF file format. I used the opportunity to create my own FOAF file and to add it to this page, so the map of apache committers now shows a little red dot near berlin. (via Bertrand)

FOAF: means friend of a friend and is an RDF vocuabulary that can be used to describe persons and relations between persons. It is like an open source social software network.