Re: Inspiration // News blogs powered with Roller

Gosh those blogs look great -- I just created a RollerUsers page: 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/RollerUsers including 
your blogs (if you don't mind) to advertise Roller's capabilities, and 
welcome others to add their blogs.

Please work from Roller trunk (not 5.0, but the source codes are nearly 
identical) and if you can submit patches using SVN and JIRA (our Git is 
read-only) that would be easier for us to look at.  We already have a 
JIRA item you can apply the patch item to: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-706.  The proposed change, 
while nice, may have three problems: (1) the solution will need to be 
database-neutral so it may take awhile before we can apply such a patch 
(we may never be able to do so, but it would at least be able to have 
the patch ready)--that said, I suspect Roller supports too many 
databases making it crippling to provide additional database 
functionality, those that obligate us to have to use a specific 
OS--specifically, MS SqlServer--may need to be first on the chopping 
block but I digress; (2) the developers most knowledgeable about the 
source are quite busy so may not have time to get to it, (3) adding this 
additional functionality could open up a can of worms (lots of bugs and 
complaints about lost files, etc., early on)  We might be able to label 
this functionality as experimental/new as a warning to those trying it.

Thanks,
Glen

On 05/14/2013 08:34 AM, nicolas muller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We sent a new series of blogs built with Roller :-) We speak about
> financial and legacy for private banking.
>
> In french you will have :
> http://www.guywagnerblog.com/fre/
> http://www.femmesetpatrimoine.lu/femmes/
> http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/actualites/
>
> In English you will have :
> http://www.guywagnerblog.com/eng/
> http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/news/
>
> It exists translation for dutch, german and spanish too.
>
> I allow himself to post onto these two mailing list because I will explain
> a few things how to do it. I think you like the products else you should
> not use it.
>
> We need to modify the source code to be able to display list articles and
> themes macro to keep the day information. In our case, it is not usefull to
> have list of posts by day. The themes use responsiv design concepts so we
> can be displayed nicely on iphone/android and tabs.
>
> The most important thing to understand is our use of category. We created
> severals categories as news, ads, events... ant each category  is used to
> display informations into an area of the page. The left main panel (with
> pagination) is only news category. On the right sidebar, we will have
> advertisement, events, archives... It is very different concept than
> classic use into Roller. In the same page we display numerous categories
> rather than filtering with them. It is a powerfull system to build complex
> page but very easily. It is easy for publisher to choose how to display the
> post ^^ You can imagine we have modified macro for that. Therefore it is
> not too hard to do it.
>
> Moreever, we create a page for generating newsletter (using tags associated
> with posts)
> http://www.guywagnerblog.com/fre/page/newsletter?version=NL_2013_03_01
> So we can send via email outlook or sarbacane (or mailchimp) the whole page
> :-)
>
> Another great but more complicated things we did is to display posts into
> other blogs to keep duplication of articles
> http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/news/
> This blog "news" has own posts and display too posts from guywagnerblog. It
> is possible because we hack tags methods and we have rules to name tags.
>
> I hope the design is nice for you too. We try to do beautiful things
> (similar size, width) to be homogeneous between spaces.
>
> I am trying to work onto roller 5 and in few days I will post into github
> the source code to store resources media into database. For replication
> between servers we could not use the filesystem so we had this feature. I
> hesitate to use elasticsearch rather than database for our migration. See
> you soon.
>
> Sorry for my bad speaking english. I am french :)
>
> Best regards,
>