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Pebble 1.6 available
I'm pleased to announce the release of Pebble 1.6, which is available to download from here. A summary of the major new features is as follows.
- Access logs written in the standard combined log file format.
- Permalinkable today page.
- Day and month view with calendar navigation across all blogs in a multi-user install.
- Blog entry decorators (a plugin API).
- Enhanced look and feel, with a reduction in the number of JavaScript popups used.
- Compatibility with JDK 1.4.2_06 and JDK 1.5.
- Early version of Pebble deskblog.
- Early version of Pebble moblog.
In addition to these are many other little fixes and enhancements across the entire application, details of which can be found in the changelog. If you're upgrading from an earlier version, you'll need to visit the Blog properties page to modify your comma separated list of pingable websites to be whitespace separated. As with other major releases, there have been some changes to the JSPs used to implement the themes. My advice is to start over with one of the supplied themes and customize them. However, I will write an entry on migrating themes from Pebble 1.5 to the new version.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an e-mail to the pebble-users mailing list. Enjoy!
Re: Pebble 1.6 available
Fantastic, i had just discovered Pebble 1.5,and the same day 1.6 is released. Pebble is a wonderful tool. When I discovered the 5 minute installation I was stunned. The way in which this program uses the power of html and css is wonderful. I haven't been this enthousiastic since my first Perl program ! Mister Brown, this is top-class software !
Re: Pebble 1.6 available
I just ran some performance experiments of a few non-db Weblog servers: Pebble and Blojsom and Pivot. The first two ran on Tomcat 5.5.4 (standalone) and the last on Apache 2.0.52 (mod_php).
I used the default templates on each server and added the same Weblog entries. Template layouts were similar (other than minor graphic differences), so content lengths were roughly equivalent across trials. Tests were run on Apachebench up to 10K total and 100 concurrent requests.
Pebble served about 8X faster than the other two and tolerated multiple requests well. The others froze up as concurrency increased above just a few (at least on my older hardware) and I had to restart the underlying service.
Just thought you'd be interested to know...
Re: Pebble 1.6 available
You post an entry as usual, but the user community contributes and shapes the surrounding content more directly than through the TrackBack and Comment links in a Weblog. It even provides admin options to constrain contributions to the public, an intranet, a userlist or single user.
Navigation is a bit confusing (it's not always clear what entry one is reading or what it's doing there) and there is potential for anti-social behavior (which may be ameliorated by archiving or easily editing or deleting content).
What do you think about Wikilogs and in particular, about adding similar features into Pebble?
