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Anil Dash: Presenting Movable Type 4.0. It has come a long way since Movable Type 3 back in 2004, and the new version has certainly contained many new features. However the Open Source version is still “upcoming”. Whether there is going to be mass-exodus between platforms is still to be seen. I am not moving [...]

TechCrunch: Movable Type 4.0 to be open sourced with MySQL-like dual license, and Anil confirmed that it is going to be GPL. Congratulation to SixApart! I felt they somehow “lost it” back in 2004 when Movable Type 3 was released with a new license terms. What follows was a mass migration, with open source advocates [...]

code.sixapart.com — home of 6A’s open source projects, from the maker of Movable Type and TypeKey. Funny that except for code snippets of Movable Type plugins, most other open source projects listed there are probably considered as part of acquition of LiveJournal.

Via ProBlogger: SixApart has announced unlimited blogs for MovableType’s free users. Mena from 6A said, … with version 3.2, *all users* will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. This goes for free users, as well. A lot of the rationale behind this was that the multiple weblog management is so good in 3.2, that we didn’t [...]

Jeremy Zawodny thinks WordPress will dominate personal blog hosting, while MovableType will rule the corporate blogging world. Nah. I don’t think so. Considering who will be making suggestions on blogging software in the corporate world, it would be a big loss for SixApart to lose the personal/individual market.

Comment spams DDoS’ed servers hosting MovableType. Not surprising, especially in slow servers where even spawning a new process of perl is considered “expensive”. Maybe for FOCUSer.net to move to WordPress would be one resolution for 2005.

Thanks to Kris Krug sending me this link on his interview with 6A’s Mena Trott, talking about 6A MT TP and the lot. All the best to the Trott’s, but I still would not recommend MT to a new blogger, for reasons I’ve outlined previously in this blog. Mean while, I’m still tied to their [...]

Movable Type 3.1 has been released by SixApart, featuring dynamic pages, subcategories, post scheduling, better extensibility and plugin pack. Sounds interesting. Feature wise, it is definitely a more significant release than 3.0D – but it took them a year since 2.6 to get there.

Just a discovery this week. Putting the following setting inside the Apache configuration (virtual host or .htaccess) seems to have positive effect on combating Movable Type comment spams. SetEnvIf User-Agent libwww-perl NOPOST <Limit POST> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=NOPOST </Limit> It seems that many spam bots are written in Perl, so here [...]

SixApart announced the features in Movable Type 3.1 at BlogOn conference. Things like scheduled posts, subcategories and dynamic pages implemented in PHP.