Anniversaries
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Changes are afoot here. In fact, changes are afeet. Things are going on. Late in the month sees Antipixel’s first birthday, but going on right now is Movable Type’s first birthday, the software that makes it all possible. Such an amazing thing, it must be setting records for rates of adoption. I don’t want to get into the comparative blog apps discussion because I haven’t used so many, but Movable Type is the best. Ben and Mena loosed version 2.5 on the world yesterday.
About time for a new version of Antipixel, too. A year’s long enough for a set of style sheets. Time to squeeze the good oil out of them and use it to flavour a new design.
So, what’s to do? Install MT 2.5 (might do this locally first), change DB from Berkeley to MySQL (tried once before but failed for unknown reasons), switch the search over from Atomz to MT-native (decrease external dependencies and all that), finish off the templates, get the comment previews working, break a few parts out into SSIs for easier handling later on, write the copy and figure out the CSS bug that’s preventing IE from displaying any bloody thing at all.
A snap.
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2002.10.10 (Thu) • 16:40
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Posted by Scott 2002.10.10, 21:34
Best of luck! I couldn't get mySQL to work either.
Look forward to the change :)
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2002.10.10, 21:51
Whew! What a scare you gave me. What with the combination of the "Farewell and adieu you Spanish Ladies" in the header, the title "Getting the Flock Outta Here", and the first line "Changes are afoot" I thought you were announcing the end of antipixel.
Thankfully not! Happy anniversary.
Posted by Peter 2002.10.10, 23:02
Yeah, three cheers for Movable Type!
Posted by jh 2002.10.11, 11:28
Scott,
Good to hear from you. I saw the other day that Darklemon is back on the air, and was mighty glad. The MySQL changeover appeared to occur very easily last time, but something didn't go right and I was getting cryptic errors referring to specific lines of PERL buried deep among the spells and incantations which are Movable Type and its plug-ins.
Will try again from scratch. Maybe MT 2.5 does something differently?
M,
Oh, I'm not going anywhere. This is true literally and figuratively, so you can be both relieved and appalled.
"Spanish Ladies" was going through my head because I recently watched Jaws again (!) and had a good laugh at the Robert Shaw character.
And as for the geese (or whatever they were, they were geese-like), what well-trimmed formation of migratory animals doesn't stir the heart in the early gathering winter? There's a ancient vestigial anxiety in us, I think, that rises like some autumnal sap this time of year: will we have enough food for the winter? Most of us don't have to worry about it too much these days, but the old cell-level memory of hunger is still faintly there.
Posted by Mike 2002.10.12, 06:05
I love MoveableType too. I'm really impressed with 2.5 so far. It's a lot faster.
Antipixel is a kick ass web site and I'm looking forward to seeing how the redesign comes out. Keep up the good work!
Hey Jeremy, I was just wondering what exactly the advantage is to switching over to mySQL. Will MT run faster with that platform compared to Berkeley DB? I have mySQL but I'm afraid to mess with anything in MT unless I know it will be an improvement.
Oh yeah one thing you might want to add is the ability for users to save their info in the comment boxes. I just added this to my weblog because I had completely overlooked it. It makes replying to your entries a lot easier :)
Posted by jh 2002.10.12, 12:00
Hi, Mike.
I'm hearing that MySQL is faster for a start (don't have specific references at hand). Should PHP, for example, ever play a role here, MySQL would be the way to go. Now that MT ships with Jay Allen's search – nice timing because I've hit the 500 limit of pages that Atomz will search for free – and my 'reduce external dependencies' hankerings can be satisfied, best results seem to be with MySQL.
If I can just get the damned thing working.
one thing you might want to add is the ability for users to save their info in the comment boxes.This is on the list, too. I always meant to do it. Antipixel started up just after MT came out and while I've added a bunch of stuff over the year, some of the basic stuff like this and previews fell by the proverbial wayside.
Posted by Mike 2002.10.13, 14:25
Good stuff. How do I use the new mt-search script by the way? I know it is included in 2.5 but I'm not sure how to set it up. Is it documented in the help file?
Posted by jh 2002.10.13, 18:45
Mike – it all looks pretty much built-in. I took a look at it when it was still stand-alone but never got around to wiring it up. Seems well-integrated according to the docs, which are straightforward and informative in typical MT style.
I'm getting the templates organised now. Looks like a snap.
I upgraded to 2.5 this afternoon and all appears to be going well. Continuing along the road to Antipixel 2.0, next is moving to MySQL, then I'll switch the search over. If all goes well I might be able to intro the new look throughout early in the week.
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