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Version 1.3 of Pebble is ready for release and I'll be uploading the new WAR file to SourceForge sometime over the weekend. As far as features go, here's a list of what's new...
Referer filtering to remove spam from your referer logs (filters are regular expressions).
Ability to modify the CSS/HTML/JSP used in the current theme, over the web.
New permalinks that point to one blog entry per page (old permalinks are still supported too).
Added a distinction between the blog owner and blog contributors, in terms of the features that they can access.
I was reading How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks earlier today and although I've been wanting to change my permalinks for a while, I've never really got around to it. I totally agree with the point about search results and I've seen this a number of times on my own blog. People would search for some conbination of terms that just happened to be splattered over several different entries.
The other change I'd like to quickly mention is the distinction between the owner of the blog, and those people that contribute to it. While this isn't a problem for my blog, I'm planning on using Pebble on my current project, mainly to capture day-to-day project news. For this to work, everybody on the team needs to feel that they can contribute. However, this doesn't mean that everybody should be able to edit the JSPs behind the current theme, for example. To implement this, I just introduced another security role and partitioned the features accordingly. The declarative security in the servlet spec is superb for this sort of change! So, while I'm not planning on implementing a multi-user blog, such as Roller or Blojsom, having the ability to have more than one contributor is useful. Well, at least I think so. ;-)
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