Movable Type Hackathon Interview with Jay Allen
The week before Thanksgiving, Six Apart hosted its first ever public Movable Type Hackathon. We were delighted to have Jay Allen back in the offices to lend his considerable talent and expertise to all those who attended. As you might imagine, being the former Product Manager for Movable Type is an impressive position for anyone’s resume, but especially for a Professional Movable Type consultant and member of the Six Apart Professional Network. As a result Jay has been quite busy and has had very little opportunity to drop by and say "hi." So it was great to have the opportunity to sneak away with Jay during the Hackathon to catch up and chat about what he has been up to.
For the Movable Type Hackathon, Jay worked on enhancing the Cloner plugin. Jay added the ability for the Cloner plugin to allow MT administrators to clone not only blogs, but also templates, users and posts. In this podcast Jay and I talk about these enhancements as well ass NotifyWho, another invaluable plugin that Jay wrote that allows blog administrators to notify a list of recipients when new comments and Trackbacks are received, as well as when new posts are made to a blog. This has proved to be an essential plugin here at Six Apart as well as for a number of customers using Movable Type to manage work groups within their business and enterprise.
Oh yeah, and Jay shared with us some big news in his personal life. Listen to the podcast to learn what it is.
About Jay Allen
Since it's initial releases in 2001, Jay Allen has lived and breathed Movable Type. As lead author of the essential developer's manual, Hacking Movable Type and a developer involved in or behind a number of trailblazing plugins such as MT-Search, the award winning MT-Blacklist, Comment Challenge, RebuildQueue and more, Jay's passion for extending Movable Type is both boundless and well-documented.
During his two-year tenure as the Product Manager for Movable Type, Jay was instrumental in leading the development of Movable Type as a platform, and ultimately to the creation of the powerful and very successful Movable Type Enterprise.
These days, Jay is putting those many years of experience to good use as a Movable Type/MT Enterprise consultant, not to mention attempting to reverse the growth trend of his massive "Plugins, sites and products to create" list. He currently resides in San Francisco with his fianceé, Jenn, and their super-dog Stella.
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