Both Movable Type and WordPress are powerful, flexible blogging engines. Both are available in downloadable, install-it-yourself versions that can be uploaded to typical web hosting accounts that support Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. But, if you want to play with these tools locally, there’s a great package call XAMPP – “…an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.” Once XAMPP is installed, your test bed is ready for applications like WordPress and Movable Type. Since it’s on your own Windows box, you can play around with configuration, templates, styles, and so on. I’m using it on Windows…
Trying out Windows Live Writer on my MovableType blog.
Tonight I updated the site to Movable Type 3.3. Eleven months ago to the day, I updated to 3.2; following the same steps this time made it go pretty smoothly: Backup everything Installed new MT 3.2 files in version-specific directories Set up symbolic links for ‘mt’ and ‘mt-static’ to point to 3.31 rather than 3.2 Review mt-config.cgi (no changes needed) Ran mt-check.cgi to confirm everything was good (it was) Ran mt-upgrade.cgi, upgrading the database (which went smoothly) Reviewed weblog settings to make sure everything came over (it did) Rebuilt the entire site Copy over existing MT plugins and associated Perl…
From Adam Kalsey’s blog: The tool that Bill Zeller and I created for posting to Movable Type from your desktop is being wound down. Zempt will live on at the SourceForge project page, but there will be no future development on the project. The domain has expired and will not be renewed. All the source and the latest Windows installer are up on the SourceForge project page if anyone wants to continue development on this handy tool. The original intent was to release on Mac and Linux as well, but I’m not sure how far they got with that. Adam…
Today Yahoo! and SixApart announced that Yahoo! small business web hosting customers can now run Movable Type: Now you can get the power of Movable Type for blogging from a web host you trust: Yahoo! Small Business web hosting. All the features you need, with no installation required. It looks like you can get web hosting for as little as $9/month, so this might be a good solution for those who don’t want to fiddle with the details of installing Movable Type. Users in that group should probably also check out TypePad which at the cheapest level is about $5/month.…