December 2007 Archives

A tour of Movable Type 4.1's asset editing functionality

Byrne Reese - 31 Dec 2007 - 6 comments

Movable Type 4.0 provided users for the first time with the features necessary for Movable Type to serve as a light weight content management system for web sites. It also provided a framework to developers to define their own custom... Continue Reading  

Integrating Movable Type with FogBugz

Byrne Reese - 27 Dec 2007 - 2 comments

We were honored when FogCreek granted us a license to use FogBugz for public case tracking and project management for the Movable Type Open Source project, which is the largest deployment of FogBugz for an open source project. In an... Continue Reading  

MTOS Subversion Tips

Byrne Reese - 26 Dec 2007 - 1 comments

Developers looking to stay plugged into the bleeding edge of Movable Type without having to depend upon nightly builds may like the following tip which shows how one can always access the following builds reliably and predictably without having to... Continue Reading  

MTOS Project Updates

Byrne Reese - 24 Dec 2007 - 2 comments

Last week we released Movable Type 4.1 Beta 2 which included a number of new features for the open source project as well, including: AtomPub Support - a core mission for MTOS is to support core Internet standards, which includes... Continue Reading  

AtomPub Support and New Edit Asset screens: MT4.1 Beta 2 Released

Byrne Reese - 21 Dec 2007 - 9 comments

I can imagine that it is easy for some to skip over a blog post announcing the availability of a beta thinking "oh, they just fixed some bugs." But to so with this most recent release of Movable Type would... Continue Reading  

Movable Type 4.1 Beta, and a new Reseller Program

Anil Dash - 13 Dec 2007 - 29 comments

This week's launch of the Movable Type Open Source project was huge news for our community. But as part of that announcement, we promised even more news to come. So today, we're introducing some of the next steps that will... Continue Reading  

Movable Type Open Source

Anil Dash - 12 Dec 2007 - 30 comments

As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. Just want the details and downloads? Skip to the bottom. But you might... Continue Reading  

Jim Ramsey on Designing for Flow

Anil Dash - 4 Dec 2007 - 0 comments

Jim Ramsey, our lead designer on Movable Type (and the guy responsible for the gorgeous design of Movable Type.com), has just published Designing for Flow over at A List Apart. Jim eloquently describes the idea of "flow" in his essay:Flow,... Continue Reading  

Appnel on Code

Anil Dash - 3 Dec 2007 - 0 comments

Even though he got a shout-out in our last post, it's worth giving some link love to Tim Appnel's "On Code" blog again. He's doing one of the best jobs of blogging regularly about the nuts and bolts of Movable Type,... Continue Reading  
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