June 2007 Archives
Byrne Reese - 28 Jun 2007 -
One of the best things to come out of the Movable Type 4 beta, aside from the product itself, are the people and the community that has been given a breath of fresh air. Our users are excited again, and...
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Byrne Reese - 27 Jun 2007 -
Last night we released the fourth Beta of Movable Type 4.0. This latest release continues to elevate the stability of the application by fixing more then 60 bugs, and brings us all one step closer to a release. Here are...
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Byrne Reese - 26 Jun 2007 -
When we first started the development process for Movable Type 4 we identified each of the primary users of Movable Type and profiled each of them to better understand how these authors, publishers, designers and developers all use Movable Type...
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Anil Dash - 25 Jun 2007 -
One of the biggest concerns a lot of folks in the MT community have is, "Is Movable Type for me?" It's been easy to be confused -- MT has been available in versions for developers, individual bloggers, businesses, educational users,...
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Byrne Reese - 22 Jun 2007 -
As you can see movabletype.org has been getting its fair share of comments and community participants recently. Its just so good to see users as engaged as they have been. And it is so a good feeling logging into Movable...
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Byrne Reese - 22 Jun 2007 -
As bloggers and blogging in general have been maturing we have been witnessing a shift in the types of things people expect and need in their tool-set. That is why an important part of this release has been building a...
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Chris Ernest Hall - 21 Jun 2007 -
Just a quick note to say that I updated the known issues list with some of the most egregious or frequently reported bugs in beta 3. So if you stumble across one of these bugs, it's not necessary to report...
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Byrne Reese - 20 Jun 2007 -
So you have been following our list of new features in Movable Type 4, but you would rather us show you the new features. Well say no more.Our first screencast demonstrated just how easy it can be to install Movable...
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Byrne Reese - 20 Jun 2007 -
Yesterday we started to list in greater detail all of the new features users will find in Movable Type 4.0. Today, we pick up where we left off and explore ten more features we introduced to help make Movable Type...
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Byrne Reese - 20 Jun 2007 -
Last night we released the latest update to the Movable Type 4.0 beta. It was our third beta release and it contains well over 50 bug fixes as well as a number of new features worth checking out. Here a...
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Byrne Reese - 19 Jun 2007 -
Since the beta began, movabletype.org has been keeping the community up to date on new features as they have been developed. These features have come in direct response to feedback we have been receiving from you. Of course, believe it...
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Byrne Reese - 16 Jun 2007 -
In yet another very exciting development coming from the re-invigorated Movable Type community, Tim Appnel of Appnel Solutions and Blogcast, has put together a Movable Type 4.0 Image on Amazon's EC2 Service (Elastic Compute Cloud).For those of you who are...
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Byrne Reese - 14 Jun 2007 -
Last week we showed you a sneak peak of a feature we added to MT4 to make debugging templates easier and faster. Arvind responded with his usual enthusiasm:"This is a fantastic feature, it will prove to be very useful indeed...
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Anil Dash - 14 Jun 2007 -
Mihai Bocsaru, a long-time ProNet member and all around MT enthusiast has been doing a great job of running a public demo of MT4, which he's updated for the release of Beta 2. You can check out his demo site or...
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Byrne Reese - 13 Jun 2007 -
Many users have taken the time to send us feedback about Movable Type 4.0. Users are sending us email directly, they are submitting feedback through our web form, members of ProNet are talking tirelessly on the mailing list and comments...
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Byrne Reese - 12 Jun 2007 -
We just this second made the new builds available for download. We have yet to publish the release notes or change log for this release--look for that later tonight. We will also be updating the list of known issues and...
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Byrne Reese - 11 Jun 2007 -
One unanticipated by-product of the release of the Movable Type 4.0 Beta was how quickly the community is being reinvigorated. Every day I am reading more and more in the blogosphere about Movable Type, and more and more frequently I...
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Byrne Reese - 11 Jun 2007 -
So one week ago today we released the first Beta for Movable Type 4.0. It was very well received, and I must admit the more and more I use the new version the harder and harder I find it...
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Byrne Reese - 9 Jun 2007 -
Every time I think Movable Type couldn't get any better, I update to the most recent development version of MT4 and I see all of the latest enhancements. Most of the time I can predict what those will be; as...
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Byrne Reese - 8 Jun 2007 -
Given that this a public beta and we are allowing the public witness and contribute to the process of refining our product right out in the open, I thought I should do the same with our documentation. So I published...
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Byrne Reese - 8 Jun 2007 -
One of the things that I hope is evident with this release of Movable Type is that we are taking a fresh look at everything. Naturally that includes the application itself, but it also encompasses everything around the application -...
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Byrne Reese - 8 Jun 2007 -
Things are really hopp'n over here. It is fantastic. So, following our posting of the Movable Type Installation Demo and Screencast we have had a number of people ask for the desktop wallpaper seen in the demo. The wallpaper was...
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Chris Ernest Hall - 7 Jun 2007 -
We've had many reports of the following error during installation: Can't upgrade that kind of scalar at lib/MT/App/Upgrader.pm line 153.If you've been blocked from installation by this error we'd like to hear from since we are gathering data on the...
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Anil Dash - 7 Jun 2007 -
The quote above was from someone in the community I had the chance to talk to in the days since we launched the MT4 beta. Let me tell you what it means, and why that blogger was exactly right.Mike at...
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Chris Ernest Hall - 7 Jun 2007 -
Hi, folks. First off, let me thank everyone who's taken the time to download (or try to download) the first beta of Movable Type 4. We really appreciate your help, and apologize to those who had difficulties either downloading the...
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Byrne Reese - 6 Jun 2007 -
We have written a lot about the new Movable Type installation process, but honestly, who reads press releases and the ramblings of Anil anyways? So we thought it easier simply to show you our installation process. The movie is about...
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Byrne Reese - 6 Jun 2007 -
We are pleased to see that the initial reception for the Movable Type 4 has been very positive. We are even happier to see more and more people already making the switch to Movable Type or upgrading their existing Movable...
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Byrne Reese - 4 Jun 2007 -
Welcome to the new movabletype.org, the ever-evolving community site and hub for the Movable Type user, developer, designer and professional. Movabletype.org (powered by MT4) is also the home and source of the most-up-to-date information on builds and source code for...
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