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The Movable Type 5.1 Presentation... in English

By Maarten Schenk on August 3, 2010 9:13 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

Jun put up the English version of his MT 5.1 presentation. Looks like most of the things I spotted in the images will indeed be in MT 5.1. Nifty...

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First Sneak Peek at Movable Type 5.1

By Maarten Schenk on August 2, 2010 11:07 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks

Last weekend there was a Movable Type Development and Design conference in Tokyo, organised by Six Apart Japan. Jun Kaneko, community manager for Movable Type, gave a presentation (in Japanese unfortunately) with slides. I hope he puts up a translation soon... However, some words and pictures from the slideshow offer an intriguing glimpse of some new features expected in Movable Type 5.1.

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New Documentation for Movable Type 5

By Maarten Schenk on July 15, 2010 11:03 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

Japanese MT hacker Hajime Fujimoto wrote the PDF book "Designer's Guide to Movable Type 5" (part 1, part 2) some time ago but unfortunately he wrote it in Japanese. The good news is Six Apart agreed with him to have it translated and edited so it could be published on-line... for free! They asked me for help with the editing and the first result of these efforts is online here. More is to follow...

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Movable Type Designers Wanted!

By Maarten Schenk on June 16, 2010 1:12 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Six Apart has just announced a design contest for Movable Type, where you can win Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium or an iPad for submitting the winning theme. As for myself, I'm not much of a designer due to lack of artistic talent, but if you are a design talent who just needs some help with the technical side of things, don't hesitate to drop me a line!

A Movable Type Hackathon in Europe?

By Maarten Schenk on May 24, 2010 4:05 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

In the past there have been several events where Movable Type users, hackers and enthusiasts got together to hack/play/tinker with Movable Type. Unfortunately for us Europeans, most of these events happened on different continents. I was lucky enough to be attending one of them in New York a few years ago, but I wouldn't mind going to another one that is closer to home...

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Using Movable Type as an eCommerce Platform

By Maarten Schenk on May 13, 2010 9:04 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Big kudos to Byrne and Jay at Endevver for releasing their 'Store Front' plugin for Movable Type and Melody. With this plugin you can turn Movable Type into a shop where you can sell (among other things) physical goods and subscriptions. It supports Paypal and recurring payments out of the box. Best of all, it is free and open source. Although you can always donate if you like the plugin (or need support).

Movable Type 5.02 is out!

By Maarten Schenk on May 12, 2010 8:50 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

You can read the official announcement here. There are no new features, but a ton of bugfixes including one for a security vulnerability. So if you are running any version of Movable Type 5.x it would be a good idea to upgrade.

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Breaking News: Movable Tips Aquires Six Apart (well, a little)

By Maarten Schenk on May 10, 2010 2:09 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In the interest of full disclosure: I am now officially a Six Apart shareholder. My employee stock options vested some time ago and I excercised them shortly after leaving the company. Today I got an official letter & certificate in the mail. I now own an undisclosed number of shares in the company. Nice.

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Movable Type 4.34 is out

By Maarten Schenk on February 18, 2010 9:24 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

Release notes are here. Mostly minor bugfixes and some security stuff, but worth the upgrade I think.

Movable Type 5.01 is out, find out what you can do with it

By Maarten Schenk on January 6, 2010 9:46 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

As announced on movabletype.org this morning, Movable Type 5.01 has hit the download area. The announcement mentions these major features: websites, themes, revision history, custom fields for all objects and a new user dashboard.

So what does this mean for you? Let's have a look in more detail.

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