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nobody@vox.com(cilvecs) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:21:28 -0700

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MTOS Released and a Podcast to boot!

nobody@vox.com(Byrne) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:39:57 -0800

Movable Type is finally free as in Speech. In the podcast and recording below we shared the news with our ProNet community and talked about the upcoming beta of Movable Type 4.1.

ProNet Conference Call - Dec 12, 2007

Byrne Reese and Anil Dash

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ProNet Conference Call - Nov 28, 2007

nobody@vox.com(Byrne) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:43:12 -0800

ProNet ConCall Podcast

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Church Directory using MT4?

nobody@vox.com(Tami) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:20:39 -0700

My church has requested the creation of an online directory that is password protected. Our congregation has roughly 200 members. I would love to turn the online directory into more of a social networking thing for our congregation where members can post information about their lives (and I'm not sure what else, I would love to hear some more thinking on the possibilities). Our paper directory is divided by family with contact information and information about each individual family member (name, birthday, email, hobbies, etc.). The online directory would at least have to function as well as the paper directory.

Some of the (starting) questions that I'm getting stuck on are:

Is this something that can be (should be) done with regular MT or should we look into Enterprise? (Is this something that should be done with MT at all?)
What kind of budget should I ask for to do this?
What are the possibilities for something like this?
Is this too ambitious? I mean, we're only a congregation of 200 (on a good day). Is this just too much?
I'm sure I'm missing thinking about something else, please chime in and let me know.

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ProNet Conference Call Postcast and Interview with David Recordon

nobody@vox.com(Byrne) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:24:28 -0700

In last week's bi-weekly pronet conference call I gave a quick update on what was happening in MT-land and then sat down with David Recordon to talk about his work on the Open Social Graph.

Podcast with David Recordon about Glue

Byrne Reese, David Recordon

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Retrofit Your MT3.x Templates With New MT4 Comments

nobody@vox.com(Tami) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:56:28 -0700

I know this is kind of weird to post this here on Vox, but I didn't see this posted anywhere else and it wasn't exactly obvious for me to figure out. So, I hope this helps someone else.

Ok, so you just upgraded your Movable Type blog to MT4. You were using pretty much default MT3.x templates (especially the comments code). You're happy with how you blog looks and aren't really interested in overhauling your templates, but you would really like to make use of the new MT4 commenting features. Here's how I did it:

Create a New Blog for parts*

put it somewhere like yoursite.com/test/ -- do not build it over your old blog
really, you don't even need to publish it and you can delete it later
below when I tell you to "Create template X" you will go to this blog to copy that template

Add Captcha Info to mt-config.cgi

Add the following line (modified with your info):
CaptchaSourceImageBase [absolute path to]/mt-static/images/captcha-source
Example: CaptchaSourceImageBase /home/melody/www/www/mt-static/images/captcha-source

Change Blog Settings

Your (old) Blog > Blog Settings > Comments > CAPTCHA Provider > Movable Type default > Save Changes
Your (old) Blog > Blog Settings > Registration > [check boxes & save]

Create Index Template