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
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
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
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
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
We here at Manufactured Environments are evangelists of web standards. We believe in the rightness of W3C standards. We think the web would be a better place if browsers (I'm talking to you, IE) better supported the standards put forth....
Tags: media temple · redesign · wordpress · zeldman
Posted by Daniel Stout on March 10, 2006 9:33 AM · Permalink
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