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June 2007

June 28, 2007

Our Community is a feature

By Byrne Reese.

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, a…

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June 27, 2007

Beta 4 and things still to come

By Byrne Reese and posted in News.

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 …

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June 26, 2007

The Most Powerful Management Tools Available

By Byrne Reese.

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, d…

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June 25, 2007

I am not an Enterprise.

By Anil Dash.

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…

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June 22, 2007

Subscribe to our new comments feed

By Byrne Reese.

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 …

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June 22, 2007

Turning Readers into Members and Audiences into Communities

By Byrne Reese.

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 ha…

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June 21, 2007

Known issues list updated for beta 3

By Chris Ernest Hall.

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 r…

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June 20, 2007

Lists are great. Demos are better.

By Byrne Reese and posted in Screencasts.

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 …

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June 20, 2007

10 Features that Help Make You a Better Blogger and Publisher

By Byrne Reese.

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…

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June 20, 2007

Beta 3 is out (and there was much rejoicing)

By Byrne Reese.

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. H…

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June 19, 2007

What’s New in Movable Type 4?

By Byrne Reese.

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 receiv…

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June 16, 2007

MT4 on EC2

By Byrne Reese.

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 S…

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June 14, 2007

Holy Syntax Highlighting Batman!

By Byrne Reese.

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 …

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June 14, 2007

A community demo of MT4

By Anil Dash.

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 de…

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June 13, 2007

How your feedback is helping to shape Movable Type

By Byrne Reese.

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 tireles…

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June 12, 2007

Movable Type 4.0 Beta 2 Available for Download

By Byrne Reese.

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 …

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June 11, 2007

The Rebirth of a Community

By Byrne Reese.

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 Typ…

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June 11, 2007

Making template errors not suck so much

By Byrne Reese.

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 to use Movab…

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June 9, 2007

Coming soon to a Beta near you!

By Byrne Reese.

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…

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June 8, 2007

Stubbing out MT4’s Developer Documentation

By Byrne Reese.

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….

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June 8, 2007

CAN I HAZ DOCS?

By Byrne Reese.

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 eve…

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June 8, 2007

Movable Type 4 Desktop Wallpaper

By Byrne Reese.

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…

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June 7, 2007

“Can’t upgrade that kind of scalar” errors during installation [updated]

By Chris Ernest Hall.

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…

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June 7, 2007

“This is a real-ass beta!”

By Anil Dash.

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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June 7, 2007

MT4 beta 1 known issues update

By Chris Ernest Hall.

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 diffi…

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June 6, 2007

Now a Major Motion Picture

By Byrne Reese and posted in Screencasts.

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 installa…

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June 6, 2007

Get your Movable Type 4 Badges

By Byrne Reese.

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 t…

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June 4, 2007

Welcome to the new movabletype.org

By Byrne Reese.

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 sour…

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