7 MT Years
7 years ago today, I started using Movable Type. Back then it was Movable Type 2.21, which was much more basic than it is today – while nowadays it is almost a fully-capable content management system,...
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The demise of Six Apart
Six Apart was a company formed in 2002 to handle the commercial aspects of Movable Type, and later its hosted platform, TypePad. Along the way, it acquired, and then later sold LiveJournal, and also...
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Please don’t comment about Lindsey Lohan’s handbag
I’ve found that adding the words ‘handbag’ and ‘lohan’ to SpamLookup’s keyword filters improves its effectiveness against comment spam. Although I do have a variety of spam plugins, sometimes spam...
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More Melodic
For the first time in over 8 years, this blog is not running on Movable Type. Because I’ve migrated to Melody. Announced in June 2009, Melody is a fork of Movable Type 4 maintained by volunteers, many...
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Spamalot
One of the issues with switching to Melody is that quite a few of the anti-spam plugins for Movable Type no longer work. In particular, I can’t find a Melody-compatible version of Jay Allen’s Comment...
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Comments: Discuss
Right now I’m not entirely satisfied with how comments are on this blog. At present, comments are open on recent entries only, and require you to have an account with AOL, WordPress.com, Google,...
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Goodbye Melody, Hello WordPress
It is with something of a heavy heart that I’ve decided to abandon Melody and move the blog to WordPress.Long time readers will find this as a surprise – in the past, I’ve defended Movable Type when...
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Movable Type’s 10th anniversary
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the first release of Movable Type, which was one of the first well-featured blogging systems for self-hosting users. It allowed people who had hosting space but...
View ArticleClosing the open source door
Somehow, I missed the announcement last summer that Movable Type would no longer be open source. Since 2007 there have been two versions of Movable Type – a supported, enterprise product that costs...
View ArticleSwitching from Movable Type to WordPress – what to expect
Following on from last week’s post about Movable Type Open Source being discontinued, and Wednesday’s post about WordPress plugins, here is another post for those considering switching from Movable...
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