The release of Movable Type 4.2 seems to have breathed new life into the Movable Type community as today’s post will reveal. The past week gave us a series of new proposals from the open source community (covering topics from new and deprecated templates tags to major code refactors), a number of new plugins (including several Action Stream plugins) and a slew of tutorials!
Welcome to Movable Type Monday!
Plugins
Cumulus: Cumulus displays tags in a rotating sphere with a user being able to control the direction and speed of the sphere. This looks like a really cool new take on the traditional, sometimes boring, tag clouds! Kudos to Steve Springett who ported Roy Tanck’s original Cumulus plugin.
Praized: From Praized Media, their namesake plugin calls itself “local search in a box” and “comes pre-loaded with over 17 million US and Canadian local business listings.” The plugin comes in two parts - the first dubbe...
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Below are links to some of the things that caught my eye last week. Also, the astute visitor may notice that I moved these "Around the Web" entries out of Computers and into their own category -- surprisingly enough, named Around the Web .
Dan covets Wii Music on Sunday, October 19, 2008
Dan posted Ajax Rating Plugin on Actions from Dan Wolfgang on Monday, October 20, 2008
Dan posted Trying... more
Happy Monday, folks! We told you last time about this being Movable Type’s 7th birthday . The celebration concludes this week with a huge party at MT HQ . If you’re going to be in San Francisco, don’t miss it.
But before the party starts, we’ve got work to do. On with the MT news!
Plugins
Minifier — Hirotaka Ogawa released Minifier , which adds block tags for minifying CSS and JavaScript. If your CSS and JS files are already templates in your blog, t... more
Six Apart has announced the launch of two add-on feature packs for Movable Type 4 aimed specifically at business bloggers.
The “Enterprise Solution” pack lets customers use Oracle and Microsoft enterprise databases rather than being confined to the standard MySQL and Postgres databases supported by MT4.
The “Community Solution” pack allows the blog to be synchronised with LDAP user directories, allowing permission-based rules to be applied to blog access.
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Greg Oden, widely considered one of basketball’s greatest big man prospects, has launched his personal blog at Yardbarker.com . Oden, who earned All American honors as a freshman at Ohio State, will share his daily life experiences and answer questions from fans as he prepares for the 2007 NBA Draft as well as competes during the 2007-08 basketball season.
“The idea of connecting directly with fans made the Yardbarker opportunity very appealing to me,” Oden said. “N... more
The annual Blogathon will be July 28, 2007. Are you ready?
The Blogathon is an annual event where bloggers around the world blog publish a blog post every 30 minutes for 24 hours and raise money for their favorite charities while they are blogging.
Last year, Willos Web raised USD $7,737.00 for their charity. An Indian Summer was honored as the Best Non-Fiction Blog during the Blogathon for blogging about her cancer. So You Want to Murder a Racecar Driver… got a lot of a... more
WordPress wins the Webware 100 Competition. The WordPress Plugins and Sandbox WordPress Theme Competitions are rocking. The count down to WordCamp is on and we’re planning on tracking Andy Skelton as he rides his motorcycle on a 7,000 mile trip to the weekend conference. WordPress 2.2.1 Release Candidate has been released. And a wild GPS, hiking adventure for WordPress goodies turns into a great outdoor adventure for many! The summer fun with WordPress silliness has just begun!
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