Results tagged “movable type”

Way hey! 8 minutes 43 seconds for an all-template all-entry total rebuild. My guess is this could be further optimized by redoing my templates (still using the 3.33 ones) and turning off a few templates that don't really need a refresh every time.

Considering the size of Donkey's database, the fact that it's being published to three parallel blogs (multiple template mappings for shufflebox, list apart and current) this is beginning to look really good, so congrats to everyone involved:-)

Way hey! 8 minutes 43 seconds for an all-template all-entry total rebuild. My guess is this could be further optimized by redoing my templates (still using the 3.33 ones) and turning off a few templates that don't really need a refresh every time.

Considering the size of Donkey's database, the fact that it's being published to three parallel blogs (multiple template mappings for shufflebox, list apart and current) this is beginning to look really good, so congrats to everyone involved:-)

Well I've been running the iPhone plugin for movable type for a while now but had never used it in anger.

So I'm sending this entry as a test.

Fingers crossed:-)

Well I've been running the iPhone plugin for movable type for a while now but had never used it in anger.

So I'm sending this entry as a test.

Fingers crossed:-)

Disclamer: We've had a bit of an ongoing debate on this one with Anil fanning the flames as he tries to support the MT cause. I should disclose that I'm a member of the Six Apart Professional Network and also a 6A partner for the Paris office just so's you know...

While I'm a long-time Movable Type fan and user, I remember the first time time I installed Wordpress. What a treat, the thing was completely painless and took no time at all. I was way impressed and have been since. Added to functionality, the open-source community around Wordpress has spawned a huge templating and design resource with hundreds of very high-quality designs for the lay blogger to chose from. In fact, for many a year I considered switching to Wordpress and was only prevented by the thought of having to maintain security on a php installation and how I would handle any serious load should one of my client's projects really take off.

Now I've pretty much stopped worrying about this in much the same way as I've given up on the flash/no-flash, mac/pc, tomato/tomahhto arguments—they seem a bit pointless and on average both options/solutions have their merits.

I had an experience of doing some migration and configuring last night which brought to light some issues I hadn't yet come across in any Wordpress v. Movable Type discussions. I was trying to replicate behaviours from an MT installation into a series of WP ones and came across the following difficulties where Wordpress let me down:

• I couldn't perform a search and replace of strings across blogs and their pages, entries, comments and templates. To get the job done I had to edit template and entry data outside of the WP environment
• I couldn't use my global templates. I use these to configure global variables that several blogs can then share (in particular, I use primarily to manage root path across different systems and to avoid multiblog-calling-itself errors)
• I couldn't re-use my user configurations across blogs and if I wanted to set up an admin to cover more than one blog I couldn't re-gen their password
• Cutting and pasting, or generally moving data between templates across blogs was very unproductive (ended up jumping between Firefox tabs)
• There were two other things that got up my nose and I'll get them down here as soon as I remember them...

Before the WPfanboys jump on me, YES, I understand there are workarounds, upgrades, plugins and other fixes to the above and of course I'm going to struggle working in an environment that isn't my first choice. I simply wanted to list these experiences as I hadn't seen them outlined anywhere else.

Disclamer: We've had a bit of an ongoing debate on this one with Anil fanning the flames as he tries to support the MT cause. I should disclose that I'm a member of the Six Apart Professional Network and also a 6A partner for the Paris office just so's you know...

While I'm a long-time Movable Type fan and user, I remember the first time time I installed Wordpress. What a treat, the thing was completely painless and took no time at all. I was way impressed and have been since. Added to functionality, the open-source community around Wordpress has spawned a huge templating and design resource with hundreds of very high-quality designs for the lay blogger to chose from. In fact, for many a year I considered switching to Wordpress and was only prevented by the thought of having to maintain security on a php installation and how I would handle any serious load should one of my client's projects really take off.

Now I've pretty much stopped worrying about this in much the same way as I've given up on the flash/no-flash, mac/pc, tomato/tomahhto arguments—they seem a bit pointless and on average both options/solutions have their merits.

I had an experience of doing some migration and configuring last night which brought to light some issues I hadn't yet come across in any Wordpress v. Movable Type discussions. I was trying to replicate behaviours from an MT installation into a series of WP ones and came across the following difficulties where Wordpress let me down:

• I couldn't perform a search and replace of strings across blogs and their pages, entries, comments and templates. To get the job done I had to edit template and entry data outside of the WP environment
• I couldn't use my global templates. I use these to configure global variables that several blogs can then share (in particular, I use primarily to manage root path across different systems and to avoid multiblog-calling-itself errors)
• I couldn't re-use my user configurations across blogs and if I wanted to set up an admin to cover more than one blog I couldn't re-gen their password
• Cutting and pasting, or generally moving data between templates across blogs was very unproductive (ended up jumping between Firefox tabs)
• There were two other things that got up my nose and I'll get them down here as soon as I remember them...

Before the WPfanboys jump on me, YES, I understand there are workarounds, upgrades, plugins and other fixes to the above and of course I'm going to struggle working in an environment that isn't my first choice. I simply wanted to list these experiences as I hadn't seen them outlined anywhere else.

A little confused by the implementations of permissions in MT41 -- Are these 'permission tokens', fragments of data that exist independently of the user-object? I mean I get it that:

user + blog + role = permission

but how does this interface (or datastructure?) express nested permissions? Or in other words, shouldn't the "moderator" role for user = James be superceded by his "administrator" role?

New stuff from 6A is usually rock solid so I'm guessing there's a valid reason for the above...

A little confused by the implementations of permissions in MT41 -- Are these 'permission tokens', fragments of data that exist independently of the user-object? I mean I get it that:

user + blog + role = permission

but how does this interface (or datastructure?) express nested permissions? Or in other words, shouldn't the "moderator" role for user = James be superceded by his "administrator" role?

New stuff from 6A is usually rock solid so I'm guessing there's a valid reason for the above...

Well a bunch of stuff has happened recently and I just noticed that last entry about Universal was my 1000th post! Turns out I've been spewing this nonsense since 2001 so now seemed like a good time for something new.

Normally, I use the blog as a platform to discuss web design, standards and so on, but recently I've been more interested in how the advertising industry is going to adapt to embrace the forces of value co-creation. So I guess that means I'm less fussed about the design and more fussed about the semantics, ie I don't want to spend as much time tweaking the design, and whatever design I settle on either won't be mine, or won't have taken me months of effort to create.

Visitors from A List Apart can still see my positionally-based flexible layout and more recent visitors wanting to discuss the relative merits of my shufflebox design concept can still get to my first attempt at a complete shufflebox page but for everyone else, I'm going to start playing with plain old default templates and a bunch of designs taken from The Style Contest. Incidentally, if you're an MT user wondering how to access the stylecontest templates, all you need to do is paste the url "http://www.thestylecontest.com/designs/" into the StyleCatcher window--beautifully simple:-)

Finally, as Movetype default templates don't have a standardised template credit, here is some template link love: this blog currently using the style Kiss 82 (as in keep it simple stupid) from Oinam

Well a bunch of stuff has happened recently and I just noticed that last entry about Universal was my 1000th post! Turns out I've been spewing this nonsense since 2001 so now seemed like a good time for something new.

Normally, I use the blog as a platform to discuss web design, standards and so on, but recently I've been more interested in how the advertising industry is going to adapt to embrace the forces of value co-creation. So I guess that means I'm less fussed about the design and more fussed about the semantics, ie I don't want to spend as much time tweaking the design, and whatever design I settle on either won't be mine, or won't have taken me months of effort to create.

Visitors from A List Apart can still see my positionally-based flexible layout and more recent visitors wanting to discuss the relative merits of my shufflebox design concept can still get to my first attempt at a complete shufflebox page but for everyone else, I'm going to start playing with plain old default templates and a bunch of designs taken from The Style Contest. Incidentally, if you're an MT user wondering how to access the stylecontest templates, all you need to do is paste the url "http://www.thestylecontest.com/designs/" into the StyleCatcher window--beautifully simple:-)

Finally, as Movetype default templates don't have a standardised template credit, here is some template link love: this blog currently using the style Kiss 82 (as in keep it simple stupid) from Oinam