Links to previous months?

Hi Justin,
The -1 to get all is a good idea. Refactoring the simple
version to
include this functionality may be a good approach.

Date formats end up being a minefield. I suppose the rigorus
way to do
it is to use the Java packages to retrieve date formats
based on a code
(MMM YYYY etc.). This should automatically adjust for the
user's
language if Roller is deployed to non-English speaking
areas. The only
downside to this is that the writer of the template will
have to know
the codes, some of them will not have access to, nor be
comfortable,
using javadocs to figure them out.

Another idea is to default to numbers:
2006-03
2006-02

Etc. These are language-neutral and they require no
specification. If
you want labels then you must include a named 12 element
array in your
template ( suggest "MonthLabels" ?). The code
uses the labels in the
array if the array is there, otherwise numbers rule. We
could also have
a format variable that, if present, alters the display . YY
is two-digit
year, YYY* is 4 digit year, M+ (M MM MMMM etc) is month and
any other
characters get passed as-is. This would allow the real
alternative
universe crowd (Celts, Klingons, Esperante) to use whatever
labels for
the month turns them on! Default for no format is YYYY-Month
.

Thanks for your work.
Bill

Ps - If you have time and would tell me how you bring Roller
into
Eclipse I would really appreciate it. I have some work I
want to do on
an editor upload servlet.

Hi Bill,
I forgot to reply to you about eclipse and roller. Do
you have experience with the Tomcat Plugin with
eclipse?

http://www
.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin

Having this plug-in installed makes it so you can
debug servlets running in Tomcat with-in eclipse. I
suggest downloading and installing this plug-in. It
really helps in creating any type of web application
in eclipse using tomcat.

I'm doing this on Linux, but windows should work just
the same. Basically, I downloaded the roller-src and
roller-tools code from the roller downloads page. Ran
the "ant build" process that comes with roller
(you
must have "ant" installed). This build process
creates
a orion-src/builds/roller directory.

I then took that oroin-src/builds/roller directory and
created a "tomcat project" in eclipse pointing
at the
/orion-src/builds/roller directory as the application.
Everything pretty much compiled and runs just fine.

The only problem I have found is that by default when
rebuilding your application, eclipse will delete
everything in the WEB-INF/classes directory and
rebuild all of your classes. There are many
configuration files that roller puts in this
WEB-INF/classes directory so I've had to recopy them
back quite a few times. I need figure out a better way
to handle this.

Another thing that I probably should do is get the
latest code from subversion. The version I've been
hacking on should be very recent since it's the latest
roller-src.tar, but ideally, I should be modifying
code from subversion.

Hopefully, this has been of some help.

Justin

--- Tribley William-cwt010 <W.Tribleymotorola.com>
wrote:

> Hi Justin,
> The -1 to get all is a good idea. Refactoring the
> simple version to
> include this functionality may be a good approach.
> 
> Date formats end up being a minefield. I suppose the
> rigorus way to do
> it is to use the Java packages to retrieve date
> formats based on a code
> (MMM YYYY etc.). This should automatically adjust
> for the user's
> language if Roller is deployed to non-English
> speaking areas. The only
> downside to this is that the writer of the template
> will have to know
> the codes, some of them will not have access to, nor
> be comfortable,
> using javadocs to figure them out.
> 
> Another idea is to default to numbers:
> 2006-03
> 2006-02
> 
> Etc. These are language-neutral and they require no
> specification. If
> you want labels then you must include a named 12
> element array in your
> template ( suggest "MonthLabels" ?). The
code uses
> the labels in the
> array if the array is there, otherwise numbers rule.
> We could also have
> a format variable that, if present, alters the
> display . YY is two-digit
> year, YYY* is 4 digit year, M+ (M MM MMMM etc) is
> month and any other
> characters get passed as-is. This would allow the
> real alternative
> universe crowd (Celts, Klingons, Esperante) to use
> whatever labels for
> the month turns them on! Default for no format is
> YYYY-Month .
> 
> Thanks for your work.
> Bill
> 
> Ps - If you have time and would tell me how you
> bring Roller into
> Eclipse I would really appreciate it. I have some
> work I want to do on
> an editor upload servlet.
> 


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Thanks for the note, but I've given up on Roller.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Justin Grammens <justingrammensyahoo.com> 
Date: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:01 pm 
Subject: RE: Links to previous months? 
To: roller-userincubator.apache.org 

> Hi Bill, 
> I forgot to reply to you about eclipse and roller. Do 
> you have experience with the Tomcat Plugin with 
> eclipse? 
> 
> http://www
.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin 
> 
> Having this plug-in installed makes it so you can 
> debug servlets running in Tomcat with-in eclipse. I 
> suggest downloading and installing this plug-in. It 
> really helps in creating any type of web application 
> in eclipse using tomcat. 
> 
> I'm doing this on Linux, but windows should work just 
> the same. Basically, I downloaded the roller-src and 
> roller-tools code from the roller downloads page. Ran 
> the "ant build" process that comes with
roller (you 
> must have "ant" installed). This build
process creates 
> a orion-src/builds/roller directory. 
> 
> I then took that oroin-src/builds/roller directory and 
> created a "tomcat project" in eclipse
pointing at the 
> /orion-src/builds/roller directory as the application. 
> Everything pretty much compiled and runs just fine. 
> 
> The only problem I have found is that by default when 
> rebuilding your application, eclipse will delete 
> everything in the WEB-INF/classes directory and 
> rebuild all of your classes. There are many 
> configuration files that roller puts in this 
> WEB-INF/classes directory so I've had to recopy them 
> back quite a few times. I need figure out a better way 
> to handle this. 
> 
> Another thing that I probably should do is get the 
> latest code from subversion. The version I've been 
> hacking on should be very recent since it's the latest

> roller-src.tar, but ideally, I should be modifying 
> code from subversion. 
> 
> Hopefully, this has been of some help. 
> 
> Justin 
> 
> --- Tribley William-cwt010 <W.Tribleymotorola.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
> > Hi Justin, 
> > The -1 to get all is a good idea. Refactoring the 
> > simple version to 
> > include this functionality may be a good approach.

> > 
> > Date formats end up being a minefield. I suppose
the 
> > rigorus way to do 
> > it is to use the Java packages to retrieve date 
> > formats based on a code 
> > (MMM YYYY etc.). This should automatically adjust 
> > for the user's 
> > language if Roller is deployed to non-English 
> > speaking areas. The only 
> > downside to this is that the writer of the
template 
> > will have to know 
> > the codes, some of them will not have access to,
nor 
> > be comfortable, 
> > using javadocs to figure them out. 
> > 
> > Another idea is to default to numbers: 
> > 2006-03 
> > 2006-02 
> > 
> > Etc. These are language-neutral and they require
no 
> > specification. If 
> > you want labels then you must include a named 12 
> > element array in your 
> > template ( suggest "MonthLabels" ?).
The code uses 
> > the labels in the 
> > array if the array is there, otherwise numbers
rule. 
> > We could also have 
> > a format variable that, if present, alters the 
> > display . YY is two-digit 
> > year, YYY* is 4 digit year, M+ (M MM MMMM etc) is 
> > month and any other 
> > characters get passed as-is. This would allow the 
> > real alternative 
> > universe crowd (Celts, Klingons, Esperante) to use

> > whatever labels for 
> > the month turns them on! Default for no format is 
> > YYYY-Month . 
> > 
> > Thanks for your work. 
> > Bill 
> > 
> > Ps - If you have time and would tell me how you 
> > bring Roller into 
> > Eclipse I would really appreciate it. I have some 
> > work I want to do on 
> > an editor upload servlet. 
> > 
> 
> 
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