One of the most requested features for groovyblogs is the ability to filter posts by language. Well I’ve been working hard to get this implemented. I wrote ages ago how the first version used the Textcat classification library to do some of the heavy lifting, which worked fine, but only had a small set of languages. I was mentioning this to my buddy Sven and he suggested I checkout the Google translation AJAX APIs that [...]

I’ve recently decided to move (my very simple) business site over to Confluence. Now Confluence is really a wiki, right? So treating it like a real CMS means you’re going to hit limitations. But Confluence is not “just a wiki”, it’s one awesome wiki! So I’m willing to endure a little pain for my public facing site so I can use the same wiki for my internal docs in all their wiki’d goodness. The only [...]