Amongst all the other announcements of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Gizmodo scores a coup by being the first blog to interview Bill Gates. Like all the Gawker blogs, Gizmodo's powered by Movable Type, so we're especially proud of the Gizmodo team for being the first blog to get time with Microsoft's Chief Software Architect.

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einfach-persoenlich - Bill Gates im Interview zu Weblogs, Copyright & Windows-Zukunft - January 11, 2005 02:47 AMGizmodo - the Gadgets Weblog - befragt Bill Gates im Interviews u.a. zu seiner persönlichen Meinung über Weblogs und RSS. Klein, aber frein. Gizmodo führt ein Interview mit Bill Gates. Interessant ist...

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I really like the "Build All Templates Statically" option on the Templates page, however I really wanted a Build All Templates Dynamically option. I posted a feature request on the subject but I don't think it was taken any further, so I took the matter into my own hands, see the screenshot (click for larger image).

Open up MT/App/CMS.pm and search for the following block of text, line #4842.

} elsif ($dcty eq 'archives') { require MT::Template; my @templates = MT::Template->load({ blog_id => $blog->id }); for my $tmpl (@templates) { $tmpl->build_dynamic($tmpl->type ne 'index'); $tmpl->save(); } } elsif ($dcty eq 'custom') {...

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As the image above shows, $40 (20% of the Dropcash campaign) has been donated to the American Red Cross to help with the victims of Hurricane Katrina. A big Thank You to all the donors of the CustomFields Dropcash campaign that made this possible.

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08.31.2005

Simple Example Templates for Movable Type 3.2

Chris Vannoy has posted some simple Movable Type templates based on the new default templates in Movable Type, but with much of the XHTML structure stripped out so they're easier to read. As Chris explains in his following post, they're not designed to be used on an actual site, since the styling would be pretty ugly by default, but they're a useful basis for creating your own completely custom design if you just need a place to get started.

We'll be producing additional documentation about all the new abilities that templates and styles have in Movable Type 3.2, but this is a great place to start if you...

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Power Tools is one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released. Power Tools help you build better sites, apps, and platforms and to connect your applications to the rest of the web.

Most Power Tools code is released under open source licenses, making it possible to build on the work here in your own applications and services. Note: Power Tools are provided as technology demonstrations for our community, but we can't offer technical support for their use, installation, or configuration.

Plugins

• StyleCatcher 1.01: StyleCatcher is a simple but powerful plugin built for Movable Type 3.2 that lets you easily swap out any one of...

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I may experience a bit of downtime or things may seem out of flux for a while (don't quite know how long) as my host shifts me to a new server and hosting package. Please bear with me !

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Movalog has been nominated for the best science/technology IndiBlog. The IndiBlog Awards are publicly-chosen awards conferred upon bloggers from India or of Indian origin settled elsewhere. The winner of the best science/tech category wins a year's subscription to Typepad Plus.

Go vote for Movalog as the best science/tech Indian Blog.

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Ajaxify: Search Suggestions

The second plugin in the pluginset known as Ajaxify, this plugin adds a search suggestion feature to the Quicksearch box at the top when you search for entries, comments or trackback. There's very little to talk about this plugin but...

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Posted on 08/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing

UPDATE: EnhancedEntryEditing has been bumped up to v1.01 to fix a bug where popup windows wouldn't disappear after you were done with them. Grab the update, you only need to upload EnhancedEntryEditing.pl Ajaxify is a series of BigPAPI...

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Ajax Archive Drop Downs

In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you...

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Posted on 07/03/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Yearly Archives

One feature I find lacking in MT is yearly archives. A yearly archive basically is just a page of twelve calendars - one for each month of the year - see mine in action here with permalinks to the days....

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Jay Allen has released MT-Blacklist 2.0e. It is an emergency release so you will be facing bugs. If you want to see what 2.0e looks like before you install it, take a look at Neil's tour, althought a few versions old, the GUI has remained much the same !

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In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown. You can see a pretty basic example heremp;

First of all, here's the AJAX code that you'll need to put within your <head></head> tags <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var xmlhttp=false; /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5) try { xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }...

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Almost all my blogs have the "Set Each Template's Build Options Separately" option selected and the dynamic setting on my hundreds of templates is varied. I wanted to be able to see immediately which templates were and which templates were not rebuilt dynamically from the templates listing view. A screenshot of how this look is above (click for a larger view) Obviously, this hack is only valid for MT versions equal to or greater than 3.1

You will need your list_template.tmpl file. Find

<th width="20%"><MT_TRANS phrase="Build w/Indexes"></th>

and replace it with

<TMPL_IF NAME=DYNAMIC_CUSTOM><th width="10%"><MT_TRANS...

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Even more ways to be updated on new posts on Movalog. I've pulled together all my feeds that I generate and have added them to one page. The feeds currently available are separate feeds for Movalog and the Sideblog and a combined set that will display posts as shown on the front page. With the impending release of the directory and forums, two more feeds will appear from each.

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We've published a page called About Feeds (XML, RSS and Atom) as a resource for people who aren't familiar with the technology to discover what feeds can do.

Right now, the experience of reading and subscribing to feeds is very difficult, not least because there's no consensus around describing the technology or its applications. In publishing this document, we really wanted to make a single resource that's simple enough you could send your clients or customers the link whenever they have a question.

We'll be linking to the resource page in more places in the future, wherever we think users might be confused by the technology. We welcome you to do the same.

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Dynamic Publishing - Pros and Cons

Discussion cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type One of the key features that Six Apart promotes about Movable Type is MT's ability to publish dynamically. What is dynamic publishing? And what are the benefits (and downsides) to dynamic...

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Posted on 05/28/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Troubleshooting Smarty Errors

Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type If you move from static publishing to dynamic publishing in Movable Type, you may encounter a variety of confusing error messages in Smarty, the system...

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From molly.com, Blogging Grows Up tracks MT from the very start through the licensing debacle to where it is now - a few weeks away from 3.1 ! Unless you have a membership with Salon you won't be able to read the full article. Alternatively, you could go through three pages of ads to get a free day pass. If you're interested in how MT evolved this is a very interesting read !

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The Email Whitelister plugin has been updated to v1.01 to fix several bugs faced by people.

Also due to popular demand, I've released the Email Blacklister plugin which functions exactly like the Whitelister except it junks comments if the email address entered matches one on the blacklist. Currently the plugin is fairly basic and doesn't allow you to enter any wildcard or regex values. A future version will hopefully contain such functionality.

Happy antispamming!

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Blog Selective Hacks

One of the biggest problems of simple hacks to the system is that they occur system wide, e.g. if you hacked the entry page to specify a default category, that category would become the default for all blogs on the...

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Posted on 07/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Feedback during Power Editing

Many people have asked me how to display the status of comments and trackbacks on the power edit entries screen. This hack will guide you through the process of adding two fields, as shown by the screenshot. One is...

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And at last, the transcript of Monday's panel from SXSW 2004. Enjoy!

See, the way I see it, CSS is about font control. You can manipulate things like your leading, text color, and font face. That's about all it gets you.

Well… The old school method of thinking (old school being as late as last year for some, though I'm thinking more of 1998-era methods) was that CSS was useful for typography, and that's about it. I was guilty of that mindset myself for years. In fact, it was embarrassingly recent that I realized that hey, you know, this stuff can do a whole lot more.

I'm a graphic designer, image is important to me. I need things to look just right...

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Adam Kalsey has posted a tip on how to password protect your blog by adding PHP to your templates. The PHP is very easily integrated with MT's database !

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