[pm-h] moveable type versus wordpress

[Russell L. Harris]

Will Willis wrote:
> Ditto on the upgrading. I've considered moving to a hosted solution for 
> this reason.
> 
> Have a look at Motion, http://movabletype.com/motion/ their newest (and 
> more *social*) offering.
> 
> Dig into the code, it's a great code base. 
> 
> While on the subject, I found this interesting too: 
> http://shaderlab.com/six-apart-core-javascript/
> 
> 
> -Will
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org 
> <mailto:gwadej at anomaly.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:57 -0500
>     "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris at oplink.net
>     <mailto:rlharris at oplink.net>> wrote:
> 
>      > I looked at blogging packages a couple of years ago.  Back then,
>      > WordPress appealed to me.  But over the past year or so, WordPress
>      > has been issuing a new release every few months, and upgrading to a
>      > new release can take an hour or more.  Such devotion may be merited
>      > by a religion, but not by a blogging tool.
>      >
>      > Somehow I overlooked Moveable Type, together with the fact that MT is
>      > written in Perl.
>      >
>      > My blog has static content -- an article is added once or twice a
>      > week, and there is no provision for comments or user interaction.  A
>      > visitor should be able to see an index of article titles, and he
>      > should be able to print out individual articles.
>      >
>      > While I am searching with Google to seet the pros and cons of
>      > switching from WP to MT, I thought it might be well to inquire as to
>      > how MT rates among members of the Perl community.
> 
>     I don't know about everyone else. I've been using MT for quite a while.
>     My biggest problem is that it works well enough that I forget to
>     upgrade.
> 
>     G. Wade

Thanks for the confirmation, guys.  I'm going to take the plunge.

I've spent the evening downloading and reading the documentation for 
MovableType.  I am relieved to learn that the RSS feed has been 
reinstituted to release 4, and that release 4 now includes enclosures 
for files external to the blog server.  And I found an article on 
creating a printer-friendly template.

Regrettably, there does not appear to be an O'Reilly book on MovableType.

RLH