Finally managed to get round to upgrading movable type - need to hack my wpcp function to add files that haven't been added with svn add for some odd reason. I must admit that I like the cleaner appearance of the admin interface.
Added bonus is not having to spend a few hours upgrading the templates - it seems that they've fixed that broken feature this time around.
Been a while since I last upgraded Movable Type, but none the less this time round, the upgrade seems to have gone a lot smoother. Well done SixApart.
Brad Choate from Six Apart has placed instructions up on his website for running Movable Type using lighthttp and FastCGI.
Which in a way is great news as the Movable Type application is going to be flipping fast running via FastCGI once the essentials are loaded. :)
Brad this is super duper news!
Currently my weblog is running via the normal apache handler. Will look into getting FastCGI support going next week.
Upgraded the blog to Movable Type 3.2 I will be tweaking the layout quite a bit more at a later stage.
Problems with Movable Type 3.2:
I've also submitted to Freshmeat the Movable Type 3.2 release which should make it's way onto the Frontpage at some stage.
UPDATE: Site Javascript Fix
Under templates, you will need to create a template called "Site JavaScript" and enter mt-site.js as the output file and save. Click on templates again and click the checkbox to the left of the "Site JavaScript" template and select "Refresh Template(s)" from the dropdown box which currently says "More Actions..." and click on go. Click on the "Site JavaScript" link and click "Save and Rebuild". TypeKey commenting works again after doing this.
I think the above quirk should be added to the "Known Issues" list of Movable Type for users upgrading their version of Movable Type.
The guys over at Six Apart have released Movable Type version 3.2 earlier this evening. It contains their 32 favourite features (26 if you see their list ;)) including their relaxing of their licensing by allowing users unlimited blogs on an installation which Mena blogged about in her post entitled Anil onstage at the Blog Business Summit.
Anil's currently talking about the latest version of Movable Type (3.2). One thing he's highlighting is the easy way to manage all your weblogs throughout the system through one screen. Something that he said, but didn't go into too much detail is that with version 3.2, *all users* will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. This goes for free users, as well. A lot of the rationale behind this was that the multiple weblog management is so good in 3.2, that we didn't want to have the limit anymore.
We'll have more details about this real soon.
Was testing a beta version of Movable Type last week and I am quite impressed on the changes to the UI.
The new default theme looks neat and clean which should not require too much hacking on to make get my current theme working with Movable Type 3.2 once it has been released.
Even Six Apart are powering their documentation using the latest beta release of Movable Type 3.2 beta4. :)
The folks over at Six Apart have released a beta version of Movable Type 3.2.
Various members of the SixApart team have been blogging about their 32 favorite features in Movable Type 3.2:
The SixApart team have been busy enhancing the user experience by various user interface improvements.
So I finally got round to adding the 3.16 release of Movable Type to the Movable Type project listing on FreshMeat and today knowing how "lucky" I am Six Apart releases 3.17 during the wee hours of the morning so I have submitted the 3.17 release to FreshMeat.
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Bumped into an issue after fiddling with my weblog this evening:
Byte order is not compatible at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 363, at lib/MT/PluginData.pm line 31
Short answer to this problem is to login to your database and then delete all your data (the rows) in your mt_plugindata table. Then go and reconfigure all your plugins again.
Busy testing SpamLookup over the next couple of days. Apparently it is a big improvement over MT Blacklist.
I'm not sure about the general opinion is regarding the redesign of the Six Apart and two of their product websites, namely the Movable Type and TypePad websites. These sites have moved onto the Six Apart website and they hired Mule Design to design the new look and feel, which I might add was a good decision on their part.
You've prob heard me talking about the Adaptive Path website previously as a good design for a company website.
I've hacked together a script which closes commenting and allowing trackback pings to blog entries that are older than 15 days. You can view it over here.
This is a early christmas present. It was written using PHP and PEAR DB (which should be in your include_path).
I was trying to get Kasia's perl based comment closing script to work but it did not and I was not in the mood for perl a few days ago and I hacked up the following php script.
It's been done by others before (Jeremy has it on his blog, mine is better cause it's longer!) but in the spirit of "not invented here" I wrote my own script which closes MT entries to comments and pings.
The idea is to cron it and forget about it and it has worked in that capacity well enough for the last few weeks.. so if anyone wants to use it (or they just like to amuse themselves by reading perl written by a Java programmer) the code is available here.
Remember you need to change the database connection details and you are good to do.
Brad Choate is now working for Six Apart where he is working on the PHP dynamic page code.
Hopefully the upgrade with the comment throttling discourages the users from trying to SPAM :)
