Entries tagged with “movable type” from Manufactured Environments
Analogy: Ubuntu is to WordPress as openSUSE is to Movable Type
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...
Tags: blogging · community · linux · movable type · opensuse · ubuntu · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 7, 2007 11:30 PM · Permalink
Continuing the beta test of Movable Type 4.0
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...
Tags: beta 7 · movable type · mt4.0b7
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 19, 2007 7:33 AM · Permalink
Two-thirds of the way through
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...
Tags: bjork · movable type · mt4.0b3 · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 20, 2007 8:36 PM · Permalink
Please excuse our mess
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...
Tags: movable type · mt · mt4.0b1
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 5, 2007 10:43 PM · Permalink
Movable Type template for an Atom 1.0 feed
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...
Tags: atom · feeds · movable type · rss · template
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 7, 2007 1:06 AM · Permalink
Flash Player 9.0 available for Linux (plus an MT update)
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...
Tags: flash · flash player 9.0 · linux · movable type · mt · opensuse · six apart
Posted by Daniel Stout on January 17, 2007 11:43 PM · Permalink
Podcasting & RSS 2.0: FeedBurner no 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...
Tags: apple · feedburner · feeds · itunes · movable type · podcasting · rss
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 28, 2006 6:29 AM · Permalink
Skipping across the tag cloud
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...
Tags: movable type · tag cloud · tags
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 14, 2006 7:35 AM · Permalink
Six Apart: Movable Type is now free (Again!)
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...
Tags: free · movable type · six apart · stylecatcher · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 4, 2006 8:00 PM · Permalink
Movable Type 3.3 Beta 3
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...
Tags: drupal · manufactured environments · movable type · mt · mt3.3b3 · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 27, 2006 9:11 PM · Permalink
Excuse our Mess: Site News
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...
Tags: 3.3b2 · feedburner · movable type · mt · rss
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 13, 2006 3:52 PM · Permalink
Akismet in action and MT 3.3 due soon
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...
Tags: akismet · comment spam · movable type · plug-in · six apart · template tag · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 28, 2006 8:51 AM · Permalink
SmartyPants gets a makeover
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...
Tags: dynamic smartypants · movable type · smartypants · wordpress
Posted by Daniel Stout on March 18, 2006 10:41 AM · Permalink
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