Unnamed Java Blogging System Progress

First, the template and media storage system is moving out of the database and into a Slide Store. That's right folks, you'll be able to access your files remotely using WebDAV. No more piddly text editing using HTML forms - use your editors directly!

The other large item is plugin support. Currently much of the internals have been switched over to plugins, however the UI still remains to be completed. The idea is that the server admin should be able to put a JAR file in a directory, and the blog admins get to decide wether or not they want to enable that plugin. To give a perspective, trackback procesing has been moved to a plugin, as well as RSS generation and the HTML-to-XHTML conversion when you create a post.

Consider this: you use Bookmarks Synchronizer in Firefox to store your bookmarks on your blog, then cue in a plugin that lets you specify a branch of the bookmark tree to appear on a sidebar. Or a plugin that parses iCal files and shows pending event.

The future, as they say, is bright.

PS: why do I feel unease when I see that Firefox has become a product?