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One of the many nice things about being married is when your wife surprises you with an iPhone for Christmas! So far I'm loving it and it gives Alice something to do when waiting at the Rusty Scabard while I browse.

iMT - iPhone Interface for Movable Type is pretty sweet. Though I'm not up to typing HTML on the iPhone yet.

I'm experimenting with the just released Action Steams. Not sure if it will be a permanent fixture but give it a gander while it lasts.

There are some better descriptions of the Action Streams, Building Action Streams & Action Streaming: Blogging evolved.

An update on 6 Apart is Slipping.

A week after the release, and after several days with no action or communication, SixApart finally had a solution that worked.

Then edit each of the mt*.cgi files adding this to the top of each (well, below the first "#!..." line):

use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use lib File::Spec->catdir(dirname($0), "lib");

After you add those lines, the CGIs should work properly.

Still no mention in the Known Issues. A very disapointing situation.

Now do I spend the time to run through the plugins that broke with the "no problem" release?

There is a new MovableType, 3.2. If you are running MT on Windows 2003, or plan to, stay away from the upgrade. In beta 3, 4, 5 continuing through the final release MT doesn't work on Windows 2003. It was mentioned in the User to User support, on the support boards, I submitted it via email but it never made it onto the Known Issues and nothing mentioned in the final release. Nothing in the "spiffy" new doc system or knowledge base.

Now that it is a final release and since I'm a paying personal user there is some offical support. First fix breaks things in a different way and required admin access to IIS.

The definate feeling is that there was little to no testing on Windows 2003. No attention paid to the user feedback during beta. Very disapointing experience. There were plans to purchase commercial liscense for work, not so sure anymore.

Update:

A week after the release, and after several days with no action or communication, SixApart finally had a solution that worked.

Then edit each of the mt*.cgi files adding this to the top of each (well, below the first "#!..." line):

use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use lib File::Spec->catdir(dirname($0), "lib");

After you add those lines, the CGIs should work properly.

Still no mention in the Known Issues. A very disapointing situation.

Now do I spend the time to run through the plugins that broke with the "no problem" release?

Did the dead. Grabbed the template, Google Sitemaps using Movable Type, and setup a Sitemap for fozbaca.org or at least the blog portion. If this actually takes off and works I might add the gallery.

Couldn't agree more, Rafe on Labels versus folders, labels win. I have fallen in love with del.icio.us labels and started experimenting with them in Thunderbird, dumbing everything into one folder with lots of labeling. Now if I could just do the same with my home direcory or My Documents. And if MovableType made it easier to label/categorize. Well Thunderbird needs more than 5 label options.

SixApart has finally released Movable Type 3.0, no wait that was the Developer Edition. My inital reaction is, much displeasure. As they have said it is really a featureless upgrade, just TypeKey and admin interface changes. On top of that the free version becomes cripleware, one author three blog limit. The now paid for version gets confusing pricing/liscensing scheme. Actually seems like a way to drive folks to TypePad more than anything.

I don't blame SixApart for trying to make a buck, I have already donated $50, but do they have to do it is such a confusing and featureless way? Definately, on top of some other issues, makes me reevaluate other package or rolling my own.

NSLog() has some good thoughts as well.

There is a fix for the MovableType Bookmarklet that works in Safari.

In case the link dies, BlogIt

New site look provided by Neil's World's Movable Type Templates.

There is a International Movable Type Meetup Day for all intrested.
[via MovableType]

Zempt This is a bookmarklet to post via Zempt. My only problem is editing the example to pre-populate the category.

Decided to give the Movable Type Plugin a try. My understanding is that Waypath does a what's related from all the blogs with RSS feeds.

Now it will be intresting to see what it puls for this post.

The really cool thing about the Waypath plugin is my blog gets a bit more useful for me today.

Went ahead with Rich Text Editing in Movable Type. Nice so far. Just for test. Now to get something this WYSIWYG.

w.bloggar a pretty good "rich" blogging client, spell checking included. It posts via the XML-RPC interface to MovableType that was added in version 1.2, so an upgrade is needed mithrandir.

pop2blog checks an email account and posts messages to a blog, including pics.

Love the wide textarea. Now if it was some kinda per user preference in MovableType proper.

Do you always use Movable Type on a 1024 x 768 screen? Add this CSS rule at the end of your /mt/styles.css file:

textarea.width500 { width: 786px; }

Found on dive into mark.

Took a few MT tips from andersja's blog: My Movable Type installation

Howto? set Individual Entry Archive to

<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/%d"$>/<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$>.html

...
Howto? set Category Archive to

categories/<$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>/index.html

Ben Hammersley has done up RSD support for Movable Type as a Templage. In case you were wondering RSD is for Really Simple Discovery a way for Blog Clients to figure out the settings and what not to talk to one's blog backend.

mt-rssfeed v1.0, is a MovableType plugin that provides a series of tags for retrieving an RSS feed and inserting it into a MovableType template.

A nice MovableType plugin that I don't have a use for yet.

Moveable Style or Switchable Type, mucho coolness. Now to implement.