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After having used Movable Type from February 2003 until August 2009, I can easily say that's it's a stable, secure platform oriented towards static publishing. I've been using WordPress since last month, and it's an easier tool to use. It... Read More >>

There's been some push-back from the community about security problems in WordPress. There were some exploits written recently that took advantage of holes in older versions of WordPress. Matt Mullenweg has weighed in on how to keep WordPress secure. His... Read More >>

One of the hurdles in the way for someone switching from Movable Type to WordPress is the quality of WordPress' MT importer. There are several problems with it: Entry tags are not imported Linebreaks are incorrect for non-HTML entries Keywords... Read More >>

Movable Type is a great platform for building blogs and websites. I made some changes to drstout.org and ManufacturedEnvironments.com that I wanted to tell you about. The big change is that instead of using static publishing, I've switched to dynamic... Read More >>

Movable Type 4.2 was released recently. This blog has been powered by the awesome Movable Type since 2003. [Side note: 2002 was the year of Blogger, and before that I did the site by hand.] Whenever a big new edition... Read More >>

Six Apart released a major new version of Movable Type this week. Movable Type has powered this blog since February of 2003, and it's still the best blogging tool out there. Most of the changes in this new version were... Read More >>

I was having a conversation the other day about Linux and blogging software when I was struck by certain parallels in some of the software I use. It helps explain why I chose the Linux distribution I did and the... Read More >>

Six Apart has been dutifully releasing a new beta each week of Movable Type 4.0. This weeks venture is beta 7. Since the release of beta 1 in early June, I've been dutifully installing each new beta, reporting errors, and... Read More >>

With tonight's poem Have you ever been? I'm two-thirds of the way through my 30 Poems in 30 Days experiment. It's been a fun project to do, and it has gotten the creative juices flowing as I had hoped. I've... Read More >>

This morning I upgraded us to the new beta version of Movable Type. It's MT 4.0 beta #1. Overall, let me just say what's on my mind, WOW! The completely redesigned interface is awesome! It's beautiful and sophisticated in that... Read More >>

I'm always tinkering with the back-end of Manufactured Environments — trying out new ideas and learning. One recent change is that we switched from an RSS 2.0 feed for the main blog to Atom 1.0. I figured it was time... Read More >>

Second things first tonight as Six Apart announced a slight update of Movable Type. The new version — 3.34 — has some security fixes plus native support for FastCGI. I upgraded ManuEnvi to 3.34 tonight and did the configuration for... Read More >>

Well, we've completely broken away from using FeedBurner for our RSS feeds here. The last remaining feed, Manufactured Podcasts, I brought back in house recently. The thing is that I knew FeedBurner had offered some capabilities for enhancing the RSS... Read More >>

I started using tags on Manufactured Environments last November, and now there's quite a list of different tags. The popular way to display a list of tags is the tag cloud. You can view the ManuEnvi tag cloud by clicking... Read More >>

Anil Dash posted some big news on the Six Apart corporate blog today: Movable Type is now free for personal bloggers. That's awesome news of course and hopefully will spur more people to try out Movable Type. Six Apart... Read More >>

We installed the latest beta of Movable Type 3.3 last week, and it seems to be working good. I had reported a few bugs with beta 2, but they've all been fixed in beta 3. Jay Allen reported yesterday... Read More >>

You'll note some things in flux recently here at Manufactured Environments. We've stopped using FeedBurner to manage the blog and fotos RSS feeds. So to the ones of you who switched with us to FeedBurner, we'd kindly ask you to... Read More >>

We've been inundated in recent months by a steady stream of spam comments getting by our spam filters here on Manufactured Environments. I turned on comment moderation to prevent spams from getting published, but still the spam scripts driven by... Read More >>

Movable Type users who care about typography have a new friend in their corner. For years, John Gruber's SmartyPants plugin has been the solution of choice for crafting typographically correct quotes (that is, "smart" quotes), apostrophes, m-dashes, and more. One... Read More >>