Results tagged “Plugins”
Yahoo! Fire Eagle for Movable Type
I've been interested in geo-location stuff for a long time now. Even back in 2003, when we launched TypePad, we built in support for parsing photo EXIF data to look for latitude and longitude embedded by a camera or mobile...
OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
At Six Apart, we'll be supporting the new OpenSocial initiative to make an open platform for social applications on the web. But for us, it's not about Google or Facebook. It's about the web itself. As you can guess...
An Interview: Apperceptive, Boing Boing and MT4
As we’ve mentioned on the Movable Type news blog, today Boing Boing, the immensely popular “Directory of Wonderful Things”, relaunched on the Movable Type 4.0 platform. There were a lot of people and organizations involved in the effort, but one...
Plugin Survey Results
One of the greatest strengths of Movable Type is its extensibility. It has an extensive plugin directory with hundreds of plugins that are in use by thousands and thousands of people. But which ones get installed and then used? We...
Movable Type Hackathon Interview with Tim Appnel
In November Six Apart hosted a Movable Type Hackathon. The event was a great success with developers attending from all over the country, and a number of other developers participating throughout the week. One of those developers was Tim Appnel....
New Plugin: Simply Threaded
The folks here at Six Apart are always impressed with what a lone seventeen year old a half a world away manages to create in his spare time between classes. Arvind Satyanarayan, creator of movalog, is perhaps one of our...
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...
Reports from the Movable Type Hackathon
Over the past 4 months Six Apart has been working to help its developer and professional community to connect more with one another. That was the primary motivation behind starting the bi-weekly Professional Network phone calls (free to anyone to...
Join us for the Movable Type Hack-a-thon
Believe it or not, there is still a lot of fear among businesses about blogging. That is why we developed the Business Blogging Seminars last year - to take the hands of so many businesses and to show them that...
Look! Did you hear something?
For several months now we have been conducting bi-weekly conference calls with ProNet members (and anyone else who wants to listen in) in which we discuss a number of different topics revolving around Six Apart and professional blogging. What surprised...
Fast Search Plugin - Faster Searching for Movable Type
One of the great benefits of the Movable Type developer community is the commitment its own ProNet members have to improving Movable Type not just for themselves, but for all MT users. Their contributions are what make Movable Type so...
Movable Type Plugin directory update
We just pushed out a sizeable update of the Movable Type plugin directory and thought we'd share with you those which are new and updated. Below are links to each with descriptions written in the authors' own words: NewEntryTemplate v1...
Get the most from the Six Apart Affiliate Program
If you're a plugin developer or one of the many Movable Type community members who contribute by creating tutorials for the platform, there's some new opportunities to benefit from our recent launch of the Six Apart Affiliate Program. As we've...
Why Movable Type will be the death of me, I swear.
I love Movable Type. Why? Because when Movable Type doesn't do exactly what I want it to do, it is crazy-easy for me to extend. When Movable Type lacked a good user interface for managing lists of books, CDs, DVDs,...
Posting from Word to Movable Type
Over on the Huffington Post (did you know they have a technology blog?) Andy Yaco-Mink has posted NaughtyWordChars. It's a clever new Movable Type plugin that performs a much-needed function: Cleaning up the weird characters that arise when you copy...
Building on Movable Type Part 3: Creating Pagination Controls
In last week’s installment of “Building on MovableType," I described how to reuse the display options widget for the storage of your own user preferences. While Movable Type uses this mechanism for display preferences (i.e. the number of items to...
Building on Movable Type Part 2: Re-using the Display Options Widget
In the first article of the “Building On Movable Type" series, we discussed a very simple thing you can do to make your plugin easier to use and seem more integrated with the Movable Type application; and that is to...
Building on Movable Type Part 1: A Look Inside Media Manager
When people hear the words “Movable Type" more often than not they think about blogging. This is, of course, absolutely correct, because in its heart Movable Type is first and foremost blogging software. But at its core, Movable Type is...
Building on Movable Type: A Look Inside Media Manager
Movable Type is far more than blogging software, it is a publishing platform. And for developers, it offers a robust framework for building not just "plugins" but entire applications. This is the first in a series of articles where we...
Packaging a Movable Type plugin with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
While you're just screwing around, it's easy to package a Movable Type plugin by zipping up the directory. However, as you write more advanced plugins with more moving parts, you'll start to have supporting files in your work directory. Hopefully...
