I started this blog more than two and half years ago with Pebble 1.1 and JBoss 3.0. Over the years, I've kept up with new releases of Pebble but kept my original customization of the Pebble 1.1 theme. However, as you can imagine, with every release, Pebble's default theme moves forward a little bit, yet my custom theme remained relatively static. I changed the background and foreground colors once, two years ago. I changed the default font family to Georgia recently, after visiting Loud Thinking and felt very comfortable with its layout and fonts.
However, every time I upgraded, making sure my old theme still works had become a bigger and bigger job. I did not move to 1.5 and 1.6 because of it.
With 2.0.0-M1, Simon is breaking all old custom themes. This will force me to abandon my old theme when I upgrade to 2.0.0-M1, which I fully intend to do. Now that I'm sure I'll abandon it, I'm motivated to abandon it now.
So I went to the configuration page and made the switch. One thing that you'll notice right away is the tag cloud link in the header area. I have been blogging with tags since I upgraded to Pebble 1.9 193 days ago. So I have plenty tags in there and the cloud doesn't look too bad.
Getting to 2.0.0-M1 will be a major undertaking because of the Java 5.0 and a JSP 2.0/Servlet 2.4 container infrastructure requirement. I've been using JPackage 1.6 on Fedora Core 3 for my Tomcat 5.0 container. And Tomcat 5.5 (which offers JSP 2.0/Servlet 2.4) doesn't seem to be available there.
I'll have to look around and figure out a solution somehow. I would appreciate hints and links to possible solutions.
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