40-15, WordPress

Lloyd Budd: The volleying between the WordPress and Movable Type camps is always amusing. Also informative.

Tough love in Techville

Tech fight! Well, not so much - but the competition between Automattic and Six Apart is getting a little chippy.

The asocial Web says thanks, but no thanks

They say the future of the Web is social. Networks abound. What’s an avowed hermit with a weblog to do?

Had I known this, I wouldn’t have bothered

From the Salon article “Blogging grows up” way back in 2004, regarding the shift of Movable Type away from being “publishing for the people” and toward becoming an enterprise-level platform:

If you ask Six Apart about this, they don’t really deny it. Who…

First upgrade on the new frontier

New blogging platform. First occasion for upgrading the software. Many fears. Breath held. How did things go?

Well…you’re reading this, aren’t you?

If (lastStraw) then (WordPress)

WordPress is in, Movable Type is out. As promised, the obligatory “Goodbye, Movable Type” post, composed with a small but appropriate level of bitter regret.

Open sourcery

You can hear the call echo across the blogosphere: Movable Type is now open source. But let’s get down to brass tacks, shall we? What does this development mean to me?

Directly: Not a thing, really. Examining code makes me feel like I’m…

The seven stages of upgrading

Easier to install than blogging software

Repeat visitors to this little weblog should note that Waveflux is indeed behaving much as you’d expect from a fully-functioning blog. Individual entries appear in full; archive lists are accessible and display the posts they should,…

Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier

So my web host just upgraded me to MT 4.01, and I’m looking at the new dashboard and such, and am almost afraid to touch anything. I knew what to expect, and yet I didn’t, if you know what I…

Movable Type 4

Out in beta. One more item on the to-do list. I’ll run it on a test blog and check out the new bells and whistles. MT development has felt fairly stalled of late - lots of tweaking around the margins,…