Just Journal Developer Blog

There was brief downtime to upgrade justjournal.com. In addition to upgrading our database software, we added some new features.

The pictures page now includes a special RSS link. Using this link in Apple's iPhoto will allow you to view subscribe to blog pictures. You can also use the feed with Google's feed service. It does not seem to work in Firefox or Safari just yet. Dates are not included yet.

In addition to the pictures RSS, I've added ATOM support. Just append /atom to the address for your blog... for instance http://www.justjournal.com/users/jjsite/atom to use this format. Only ATOM feed support is implemented and the date format is incorrect.

I fixed the HTML on the login page.

Someone signed up a JJ account and asked why it doesn't support Chinese.  I have not yet implemented true internationalization support in Just Journal.  Pages are tagged as English.  I am using UTF-8 for most fields, however.  That means English and most Western European languages should work.  In the future, I plan to add a feature to allow the user to pick their native language which would also tag pages in that associated language.  I will attempt to add support for asian languages using either native character sets or UTF-16 at that time.

Here is a document describing support for i18n in Java.  This would only be interesting to programmers who might wish to work on JJ.  http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp