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Help ORBlogs: Hit The Development Server!

I was supposed to write this blog post a couple weeks ago. Ugh. Holidays!
Well, we’re all back to work now that the holiday madness has ended, and that means that development is heating up again on ORBlogs. This year, Santa dressed up as Bill Jackson and left a development server under our tree. The server [...]

Hey, where did everybody go?

It’s been a bit over a month since I’ve updated the blog- which means that I’m just a really bad blog host. It’s not like nothing’s been happening, lots of things have happened. Unfortunately many of them were bad, and happened to me.
I really didn’t mean to completely desert the blog, it just sort of [...]

Portland Java Users Group joins ORBlogs Effort

After contacting the Portland Java Users Group, a number of Java programmers have responded with the desire to help ORBlogs. The general consensus is that we need a scalable, extensible architecture, not another hack. I agree, but still think that BigBark, or similar immediate solution, is still important.

Oregon Blogs Aggregator Goes Live

True to form, mere moments after a separate ORBlogs restoration effort goes life, bloggers break the story. Here are the details as fast as we can get them to you.

Show Your Best on ORBlogs

Got a great image or drawing expressing everything you love about Oregon? How about just a lucky shot that you think is neat? Send it to the ORBlogs team and it can be featured like the one you see above.

The State of the State

Seems like half the state is clamoring for an update on the ORBlogs progress (well, four or five people were asking about it, anyway). Here it is, a line-item review of our progress so far- living proof that the lazy bastids at ORBlogs would rather sleep away their nights than give you satisfaction!

ORBlogs 2.0: Rebuilding the Oregon blog aggregator

The last few weeks have been an incredible reminder of why I love Oregon, why I love the people here, and why I love our tech community.
With the announcement that Paul Bausch’s ORBlogs was being taken offline, a groundswell began. A groundswell to save the aggregation of Oregon blogs. A movement to save an “historical [...]

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