7 posts tagged “movable type”

UPDATE: Holy Cow, it worked!

This is an all out test of CrossPoster. It is simultaneously crossposting to both my Vox and Movalog's Sandbox blog i.e. two different blogs on two different weblogging engines. As this crossposting could take quite a while, it is launched via a background task.

This also has also been composed with Movable Type on my localhost machine with the Markdown text formatter which means this is italics this is bold

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This is a tag test! Wish me luck!

80 days around the world, we'll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow's ending. Time - we'll fight against the time, and we'll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won't say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world.

I hadn't expected that last entry to actually cross post on the first go... I had expected there to be some bugs... but there weren't which makes a first! It's a shame that Vox doesn't seem to be able to update entries via the Atom API.

This second cross posts is testing two things, (a) whether tags are properly transmitted to Vox and (b) whether CrossPoster::Cache works properly!

See you on the other side!

From Vox: It looks like I jinxed myself! Test #2 was only 50% successful, CrossPoster::Cache worked brilliantly but unfortunately tags weren't sent across. My neighbours, please forgive all these spam posts you will see crop up in VoxWatch and elsewhere. The pain, however, will be worth it :)

It is quite sad that the first post in over a month to my Vox is in fact a test for an ultra-cool new Cross-posting plugin for Movable Type!

I recently landed my first Movable Type gig, and it's with The Mothership:

So I am happy to announce Six Apart’ newest intern: Arvind Satyanarayan.

And I'll be working on a redux of this!

UPDATE: So Jesse posted a comment and it went right through.

I shouldn't've posted this here but I did. Since it says my comment is awaiting moderation and as I am I little skeptical whether they will publish it or not, I'm reproducing it here. I'm so mad that I'm not even going to bother converting the HTML for Vox. No doubt I'll be flamed but I had to get it out of my system

<blockquote>MovableType officially launched MT 3.3 today</blockquote>
 
 Movable Type 3.31 was released almost 2 weeks ago. In fact the announcement blog post was linked to by The Blog Herald in its <a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2006/07/15/paul-scrivens-and-i-agree-on-something-or-the-coming-end-of-movable-type/">previous attack on Six Apart</a>. It's really a shame that after Duncan made his peace with Six Apart, the new owners here continue to unprofessionally attack them again and again.
 
 It seems on a quiet news day, the easiest thing to do is attack Six Apart.

To clarify a few things with your entry, there have been several Movable Type tagging plugins too, the fact that it has been integrated into the core product and in an incredibly extensible way (plugin developers can easily leverage the new tagging mechanisms for their own plugins as I demonstrate with a plugin soon to be released) is a big plus over the plugins. 
 
 Looking at my wordpress.com account, you're quite right, one can get a feed for *some* pages by tacking on /feed but to compare this to Activity Feeds is laughable - as you would've found had you bothered reading the feature list and/or documentation in a little more depth. Activity Feeds provide blog authors/administrators a backend/administrative feed of the blog such that through a feed aggregator, you could manage your MT blog. I'm yet to see Wordpress in its core product offer something similar.

Widgets again not in Wordpress' core code, in fact Wordpress' Widgets plugin was released after a similar plugin for Movable Type and featured an <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/blogging/coincidence_i_t.php">eerily similar interface</a> (though Matt justifies the interface decisions in the comments)
 
 To put it into perspective, lets take a look at the release cycles of the two shall we? Movable Type 3.2 in August 2005, Movable Type 3.31, July 2006. Two feature packed releases, with several weeks of public betas behind them and both incredibly stable. 3.2 was extremely well received by the community, many claiming it should've been labelled 3.5. MT 3.31 has indeed been more quiet as it wasn't as big a release as 3.2.

 Wordpress? Wordpress 2.0 was released in December 2005 to a) surprise at the inflation of version number and b) quite buggy code if I remember. Hence 2.0.1 was released shortly after, followed by a security release 2.0.2 and then another 2.0.3 and in fact a public beta was conducted for yet another bug fix 2.0.4. Assuming Wordpress 2.1 lands before December 2006, Movable Type would've had two feature rich releases in one year whilst Wordpress would've had two feature rich releases and 4 bug fixes!
 
 It seems that The Blog Herald is nothing more than Wordpress fanboyism attempting to sneak in cheap shots about supposed weblog wars and a loss of market share whenever it can.

<blockquote>but really, MT is not offering anything “new” to the blogging world with this release.</blockquote>

Could you please clarify for me what WP is offering “new” to the blogging world. I would love to see these spectacular innovations that I seem to be missing.

• (not)Comet in one word "RAWKS"!!
• I really like the 'recent entries from friends' aggregation, I never realized how useful it was even though its been in LJ for ages
• I love the AJAX, I especially love the complete and utter lack of fading yellow message bars all over the app or table rows that fade when you delete entries *cough*
  
• I wish the dialog boxes were draggable as in I click somewhere around the top and drag it to a different location on the screen - I have windows scattered all over my tiny 17" screen (yes I must something bigger!) most often a movie. Sometimes options in the dialog boxes are hidden by these windows, hence being able to drag them around would be so much easier.
• The composing windows needs far more work:
• If I type some text, highlight it and create a link with it, the link seems to continue, hence text I type after is also linked. This is also a bug with Typepad's WYSIWYG
• It would also be nice if buttons remained higlighted when in use (like other WYSIWYGs) - for example, I click the Bold button and it remains highlighted until I unclick it
  
• When inserting a photo into the WYSIWYG in Firefox 1.5 on OS X.4.5, the cursor disappears completely from within the textarea. Further issues probably related to this is that it takes a lot of effort to get it wrapped nicely with the text. Clicking with my mouse mostly selects the picture box and nothing more
• I'm having further problems with my cursor sometimes not appearing in the other fields on the screen (title, tags)
  
• The tags field should really have a little description stating that they're commas separated, my geeky reflexes automatically went to the spacebar rather than the comma
• I found that shortcuts for Bold, Italics and Underline work in the WYSIWYG so kudos for that
• And I hope this WYSIWYG makes Movable Type - of course under a separate text formatter a la EnhancedEntryEditing ;)
• Oh and I like the warning that comes up when you mistakingly leave the compose page, I've lost posts in MT like that and its gotten my goat, perhaps I should write a plugin, eh?
• What does the Recover Post link do?
  
• I also hope the dynamic perl system makes its way into Movable Type, I really hate writing PHP tags on top of my Perl code. Pretty please or do I have to write a plugin!
• At the time of writing, these were the two most recent posts in Jay's and Anil's blogs. With both posts, they contained very little text and a picture hence I saw very little to nothing in the dashboard and the Recent Pictures module didn't change. Also Anil's post had no title and the only way I could get to this entry was the "More from Anil" link which confused me a little because I expected that link to go to his blog's homepage.
• Ability to add our associate ID for Amazon so we can mint money by sharing what we're currently reading, watching and listening to!