Some Movable Type users abandon Ship

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"Danah on the cultural divide between
Movable Type/TypePad users and
LiveJournal users"

"Danah on the cultural divide between
Movable Type/TypePad users and
LiveJournal users" 01/06/2005 05:05 PM

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Movable Type 3.11 Released: Bugs fixed

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.11 Released: Bugs fixed 09/04/2004 05:18 PM
Movable Type 3.11 Released: Bugs fixed .. released

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Tokyo Movable Type Users Gathering

Tokyo Movable Type Users Gathering 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Starting next Wednesday, Ben and I will be visiting Tokyo, Japan. On Friday, January 17th, our host, Joi Ito and...

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.14 released

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.14 released 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 3.14 released .. new version of Movable Type

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Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.1 Launched

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.1 Launched 08/31/2004 05:31 PM
Movable Type 3.1 Launched .. new version

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Movable Type News: Workflow for Movable
Type released

Movable Type News: Workflow for Movable
Type released 04/15/2005 10:47 PM
Workflow, a new plugin for Movable Type 3.1x, has just been released by David Raynes. While we don't usually feature new plugins as part of our news about the Movable Type platform, we thought it was worth pointing out because...

Movable Type News: Movable Type 3.16
released

Movable Type News: Movable Type 3.16
released 04/18/2005 04:41 PM
The Movable Type team has been hard at work and we have some very exciting things coming in the 2005 release schedule. To kick things off we are proud to introduce Movable Type 3.16. Movable Type 3.16 sports significant improvements...

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.1: What's New

Movable Type Publishing Platform:
Movable Type 3.1: What's New 07/30/2004 05:26 PM
Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 3.1: What’s New .. new version of Moveable Type

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Movable Type News: Movable Type 3.17
released

Movable Type News: Movable Type 3.17
released 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Today we are releasing Movable Type 3.17. This release addresses four issues that do not affect the majority of installations, but are critical for users with certain configurations. Version 3.17 is not a required upgrade if your Movable Type installation...

Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript
of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft
Corporation

Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript
of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft
Corporation 05/23/2004 01:52 AM
his speech at MS Research .. ranting, in part, .. Bruce Sterling

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Movable Type 3.1: What's New

Movable Type 3.1: What's New 07/27/2004 09:21 PM
Following Ben and Mena’s demonstration on Friday at the BlogOn conference, we’re glad to give everyone a small peek at...

Movable Type RIP

Movable Type RIP 05/13/2004 10:48 AM
I'm done with Movable Type. After months of little useful communications about their plans, Ben and Mena have for all intents and purposes ditched the free version of their once-shining weblogging software. Now, MT is a "publishing platform" that costs at least $69 (with limited functionality). Lucky for us that, while MT slept, we have discovered a much improved and free Blogger, a truly open source WordPress, and a similarly priced but more powerful ExpressionEngine.

"Movable Type 2.64"

"Movable Type 2.64" 12/17/2003 03:46 PM

How I am using Movable Type

How I am using Movable Type 05/18/2004 04:20 AM
In answer to Mena's question regarding Movable Type, asking "How are you using the tool?", I thought I'd explain a...

"Movable Type 3.0"

"Movable Type 3.0" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

Get Movable Type

Get Movable Type 05/13/2004 03:43 PM
acceso a las licencias completas .. announced their pricing scheme .. new pricing structure .. Movable Type Free .. Preisliste .. limitless

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"SMI und Movable Type 3.0"

"SMI und Movable Type 3.0" 04/27/2004 03:55 PM

Movable Type Pro

Movable Type Pro 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Now that version 2.6 is released, we're pleased to announce that Movable Type Pro is in development for a summer...

"Movable Type 3"

"Movable Type 3" 06/03/2004 12:52 AM

Movable Type 3.1

Movable Type 3.1 07/27/2004 12:42 AM

Six Apart has announced what will be included in MT 3.1 I am highly disappointed that the feature list is not longer. Time will tell if they are able to keep up with the competition. [MovableTyp e]

Movable Type 3.0

Movable Type 3.0 12/22/2003 05:37 AM
We realize that official news has been scarce over the last 6-9 months. During this time, our company has grown...

Movable Type Upgrading

Movable Type Upgrading 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
I always wait a while to upgrade Movable Type (the software I use to publish this site). The wisdom of this approach was borne out when a security fix had...

Movable Type SOLD OUT!?!

Movable Type SOLD OUT!?! 05/16/2004 12:42 AM
advocated their original position .. asterisk: MovableType SOLD OUT .. Asterisk

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Movable Type RIP | Metafilter

Movable Type RIP | Metafilter 05/14/2004 01:39 AM
Metafilter thread on Movable Type going to a pay model .. that just isn't good enough .. Answer

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Using PHP for Movable Type Searches

Using PHP for Movable Type Searches 07/04/2004 01:38 PM

A lot of people want to roll their own search with Movable Type. Us, for instance — Gadgetopia has a two-tiered search system based on whether the search term appears in the title, keywords, or body of the entry (see this post for more information).

Our search is done in with SQL and PHP, abandoning the MT search system completely. The probem with this method is rendering the search results. If you don't use MT, then you lose two things:

(1) Auto-creation of the permalink. The URL isn't stored anywhere in the database, so you have to recreate it. If your URLs are just based on the entry ID, then it's not hard. However, look at our URLs — they're a conglomoration of the date and the entry title. We'd have to create a PHP function to recreate this scheme — and if we ever changed the URL structure from within MT, we'd have to change the PHP function separately.

(2) Text filters. If you're just converting line breaks, the text filter is not so hard to re-produce. However, if you're using Textile or some other plug-in to filter your text, you're going to have to reproduce that in PHP as well so the previews render correctly.

You can avoid all this, however, by simply using PHP includes and an extra Individual Entry Archive. The result is an elegant solution that blends PHP and MT to eliminate the tedium of recreating MT functionality in PHP.

First, create a folder in your site called "search_fragments."

Next, create a new Individual Entry Archive in MT called "search_fragment." This template should contain the just HTML to create a single search listing. Like this:


<tr class="title">
  <td class="title">
    <a href="<MTEntryPermalink>"><MTEntryTitle></a>
  </td>
  <td class="date">
    <MTEntryDate format="%m/%d/%Y">
  </td>
</tr>
<tr class="excerpt">
  <td colspan="2">
    <MTEntryExcerpt>
  </td>
</td>


Configure this template to generate a file in the "search_fragments" directory named for the entry ID only. You don't even have add an extention, though you can if you like (if so, you'll need the change the PHP code listed below). So the entry in the archiving configuration would be something like:

search_fragments/<MTEntryID>

Now when an entry rebuilds, it will create two files: (1) its normal archive file, and (2) a search result fragment file called "1", "2", "348", etc. Notice that since we're using standard MT templates to create the fragment, the permalink will be created by MT, and the exceprt text will be formatted according to the text filter the entry is using.

Now, when you use your SQL to get your search results, just SELECT the entry ID, then spin through those and use PHP to include the matching search fragment file. Like this:


<table>
  <?php
    while ($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($keywordResults)) {
      @include "search_fragments/" . $r['entry_id'];
    }
  ?>
</table>


This will dump the contents of each search fragment file in the table. Since each file contained two rows, the resulting table will be valid HTML. Notice we're surpressing any errors on the inclusion line just in case a file is missing for some reason.

We've be using this system here for months, and it works great.

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Movable Type 3.01D bug fix release

Movable Type 3.01D bug fix release 07/09/2004 09:45 PM
We've just released Movable Type 3.01D. You can download the new version by logging into your Movable Type Account...

Movable Type 3.16 released

Movable Type 3.16 released 04/18/2005 03:50 PM
The Movable Type team has been hard at work and we have some very exciting things coming in the 2005 release schedule. To kick things off we are proud to introduce Movable Type 3.16. Movable Type 3.16 sports significant improvements...

Movable Type Scaling

Movable Type Scaling 11/05/2003 03:39 PM
MovableType Scaling problems. Metablogging this for people I know who use MT but might miss this. [Radio Free Blogistan]

"Movable Type 3.14 released"

"Movable Type 3.14 released" 12/24/2004 01:00 PM

Movable Type Meetup

Movable Type Meetup 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Looking for a way to hang out with other Movable Type users in real life? To talk about the writing...

Movable Type Undiscussion

Movable Type Undiscussion 12/24/2004 12:59 PM
The Movable Type discussion forum gets only a fraction of the traffic it used to receive. I present a few thoughts on why this has happened and what can be done about it.

Movable Type/Safari Bug

Movable Type/Safari Bug 05/09/2004 04:50 AM
I apologize to everyone who arrived here because their news reader told them that I updated the previous entry. I... (93 words)

Breadcrumbs in Movable Type

Breadcrumbs in Movable Type 05/05/2004 02:18 PM

P. Obels asked

How do you get the links on top of your site in movabletype which point out where you are?

like:

Home » Our Thinking » Measure Twice » Archive » Tools and Utilities

Since he’s not the first person who’s asked, and I’m getting tired of re-writing the answer, I’m blogging it so I can simply point people here.

The short answer is: manually.

Each MT template has the breadcrumbs manually defined. The only variable part of the breadcrumb is (in most templates) the last item in the list. So my archive template that creates both category and monthly archives has this in it:

<p class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> &raquo; <a href="/thinking/">Our Thinking</a> &raquo; <a href="/blog/">Measure Twice</a> &raquo; <a href="/blog/archives/">Archive</a> &raquo; <MTArchiveTitle></p>

And the individual archive template contains

<p class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> &raquo; <a href="/thinking/">Our Thinking</a> &raquo; <a href="/blog/">Measure Twice</a> &raquo; <MTEntryTitle></p>

Movable Type 3.17 released

Movable Type 3.17 released 06/05/2005 10:50 PM
Today we are releasing Movable Type 3.17. This release addresses four issues that do not affect the majority of installations, but are critical for users with certain configurations. Version 3.17 is not a required upgrade if your Movable Type installation...

Movable Type 3.0 Screenshots

Movable Type 3.0 Screenshots 05/20/2004 04:14 PM

Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition review: Here's a review of MT3 with something I've been looking for: lots of screenshots. The new interface is nice — very TypePad-ish.

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Why your Movable Type bl0g must die

Why your Movable Type bl0g must die 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
In the past, blogging was an interesting pastime. Now, with the advent of the ridiculously popular weblog package Movable Type, the Web is in risk of drowning under a tidal wave of morons who throttle search engines with writing that has no purpose and such PageRank-destroying features as "TrackBack".

Movable Type 3.0 and Eating

Movable Type 3.0 and Eating 05/13/2004 01:51 PM
tim appnel is a developer who makes money providing services around Movable Type

Partners: Movable Type 3.16

Partners: Movable Type 3.16 04/18/2005 11:38 PM
Last week, we informed our Hosting Partners of an anticipated release of Movable Type. Today, I'm happy to announce the release of Movable Type 3.16 to the general public. Details from Jay Allen, the Product Manager, and Anil Dash, who...

Movable Type News

Movable Type News 05/13/2004 04:57 PM
dernire mouture de l'outil de blogging MovableType .. Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition .. Six Apart announced .. out

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