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Movable Type v 4.0 (Athena Project)

Disclaimer:
The Movable Type Logo and Publishing Platform is trademark by Six Apart, Ltd.
While PRO IT Service is not affiliated with Six Apart, Mihai Bocsaru is a long term ProNet member.

Need support to keep this going

I hope that the online community has appreciated the movable type demo project I’ve launched 2 years ago, on the very first day the first version of movable type 4.x has been launched.

Since then I’ve invested over one hundred hours to always update the version to the latest one available. I didn’t count the exact time spent on this initiative, but I’m sure it passed 100 hours.

Because a friend of mine from FastServers.Net moved to Cpanel, the free hosting package I had with FastServers for supporting this initiative came to an end.

For about 2 months we are hosted with Pair Networks and I’m renting a special account only for this scope. This means having me spent some money every month to keep this alive.

At this moment I have to stop offering full access to this demo site because it got so big and because people are not using it only for seeing the new platform, but also for deploying work and stuff.

What I am going to do is:

1) let you still login with demo/demo, but have only author and commenter privilages, so no more access to the templates or other settings;

2) update all the current users to author and commenter (see above);

3) on request offer you full access to the system (including templates and settings) in exchange for a small donation which to allow me support this initiative on an ongoing basis.

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on June 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Evaluate Movable Type v4.25 Motion Today!

One of the things I love at Six Apart is that these guys are always working (pretty the same as I do).

I recall from Le Web 3, 4th edition in Paris, France, way back in December 1997 that Chris Alden (Six Apart CEO) and the other board members said to me:

'We are wondering if you even get some time to sleep! You're doing so many wonderful things.'

At that time we were talking about this 'movable type demo project' that I've initiated on June 2007.

Did Six Apart adopt my working fashion? It looks like... :)

They are always surprising me with launching new movable type versions and more and more features. I have no reasons to regret that I've chosen movable type and to advocate for it vs. wordpress.

Movable Type Motion Available For Demo

Last night they've launched movable type v4.25 which contains the motion extra feature!

Since motion is an excellent social feature, I cannot wait to reveal it to you here.

This being said, I'm delighted to invite you to have a look at movable type v4.25, both professional and open source versions.

Let me add one more thing! If you find this demo project helpful, please support it by giving my any movable type work or by making a paypal donation to info[at]pro-it-service[dot]com.

To login to movable type live demo use the following details:

- username: demo
- password: demo

1. Movable Type Professional v4.25

- release date: March the 17^th, 2009

- access url: http://www.movabletype4.org/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

2. Movable Type Open Source v4.25

- release date: March the 17^th, 2009

- access url: http://www.movabletype4.org/opensource/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on March 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Movable Type v4.24 is here!

This morning Natalie Podrazik, Manager @ Movable Type Support announced movable type v4.24 on the movable type professional list (pronet).

This release was launched mainly to address a security issue that relates to the exposure of user profile data. This bug impacts the Community Pack code directly.

Together with this security issue fix, the new movable type version contains an improved Password Recovery mechanism. Now only an email address is required for MT to trigger the recovery email, making the Password Hint obsolete.

I've just upgraded our two movable type demo installations so that you could enjoy the new release.

Do you need assistance to have your movable type installation upgraded? Get in touch!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Movable Type v4.23 Demo Available

Guys, we were in holiday until now and during this time, more specifically on December the 3rd, Six Apart announced Movable Type v4.23

This release is very important as it addresses a good number of bugs and security issues!

You are very welcome to start checking it out right away!

I've also noticed that the movable type commercial installation had some issues. Basically, after providing the username and password movable type was displaying an Error 500 message...

On the back end it was generating a dump core file measuring about 30 megabytes for each and every login attempts! Don't ask me how many dumps were in...

The problem has been fixed and you can now browse both the commercial and open source version of the latest released movable type v4.23. Enjoy!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on December 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Download your Movable Type v4.21 patch right here!

Byrne Resse, Movable Type Product Manager @ Six Apart announced movable type v4.21 which is basically v4.2 with a two major bug fixes, one regarding custom fields data, and the other regarding the archive mappings.

In an effort to make your life easier if you want to upgrade a movable type installation from v4.2 to v4.21 I've created a patch which you could unzip and upload to your server

The patch is available both for Movable Type Professional and Movable Type Open Source and you could download it right here:

1) Movable Type Professional v4.21 (upgrade from v4.2)

http://www.movabletype4.org/downloads/MT-4.21-en-upgrad-from-MT-4.2-en.zip

2) Movable Type Open Source v4.21 (upgrade from v4.2)

http://www.movabletype4.org/downloads/MTOS-4.21-en-upgrade-from-MTOS-4.2-en.zip

If you find this patch useful and want to make a donation, you could do so via paypal to info@pro-it-service.com

Also, if you need any movable type consultancy service, including installations, upgrades, recoveries or anything else, just get in touch via email or using the contact form above

Happy blogging!

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on August 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Movable Type v4.2 is here!

Just a few hours ago Six Apart announced Movable Type v4.2, a version the entire movable type community was waiting for.

There are so many features that Movable Type v4.2 bring in, but most of all this is the fastest and most secure release of Movable Type so far.

Go and read more about it at:

Movable Type 4.2 is here!

If you need somebody to install Movable Type for you or to upgrade your already existing Movable Type version, just click the 'Contact' button above!

Are you curious to see Movable Type v4.2 in action?

Thousand thanks to the entire crew @ Six Apart that made this product possible!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on August 13, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Six Apart Has A Surprise For You (Styles Live Customization)

You won't believe what a great surprise Six Apart prepared for us all :)

Have you even imagined a very simple, fully intuitive and quick way to find a new interface design for your Movable Type Web site, to choose the exact layout you like (with whatever number of columns and their positioning in page) and to even be able to update the interface design style live before saying to youself: "Yeah! This is what I want to apply to my Web site!".

Just check out this post:
Movable Type Design Assistant: Styles Live Customization is Here

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Movable Type v4.1 has been launched (demos available)

The entire blogging community, movable type based or not, have a good reason to go get some champaign and celebrate the launch of Movable Type v4.1.

This is indeed an occasion you should not miss, since both the Commercial and Open Source versions have been launched! Yes, I didn't make any spell mistakes. Movable Type is also available as an Open Source publishing platform.

I won't take much of your time now as I need to rush and get by own champaign bottle here in London, where I'm currently with business for about one week (reachable on 07876.081.936). The business is obviously Movable Type based :)

Before going though I would like to offer you a present - as always - and to let you access an absolutely free demo of both the commercial and open source versions of movable type 4.1.

Thousand thanks to the entire crew @ Six Apart that made this product possible!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on January 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

Three Movable Type Versions Available For Testing

UPDATE: January the 24^th
Movable Type Open Source beta demo has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: January the 23^rd
Movable Type Commercial and Open Source beta demos has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: January the 22^nd (21^st, 20^th, 19^th)
Movable Type Open Source beta demo has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: January the 18^th
Movable Type Commercial and Open Source beta demos has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: January the 16^th
Movable Type Commercial stable demo has been updated to the most recent build (security issue fix release).

UPDATE: January the 15^th (14^th, 13^th, 12^th, 11^th)
Movable Type Open Source beta demo has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: January the 10^th
Movable Type Commercial and Open Source beta demos have been updated to the most recent builds.

UPDATE: January the 9^th (8^th, 7^th, 6^th, 5^th, 4^th, 3^rd, 2^nd, 1^st)
Movable Type Open Source beta demo has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: December the 31^st (30^th, 24^th)
Movable Type Open Source beta demo has been updated to the most recent build.

UPDATE: December the 21^st
Movable Type Commercial and Open Source beta demos have been updated to the most recent builds.

UPDATE: December the 14^th
Movable Type Commercial and Open Source beta demos have been updated to the most recent builds.

Six Apart announced today the Movable Type Commercial beta version 4.1b1-de-release-24-r69566-20071212

Since at the moment there are three versions available (one stable and one beta for the commercial version and one beta for the open source) I was thinking to let you check and use any of them, rather than just keeping here one or another

The access to any of these versions is demo/demo (username: demo & password: demo)

1. Movable Type Commercial

1.1. Stable Version: 4.01a 4.01

- release date: January the ^16th, 2008 September the 17^th, 2007

- access url: http://www.movabletype4.org/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

1.2. Beta Version: 4.1rc2 4.1rc1 4.1b3-en 4.1b2a-en, 4.1b1a-en, 4.1b1-de-release-24-r69566-20071212

- release date: January the 23^rd January the 10^th January the 18^th, 2008 December the 21^th, 2007

- access url: ttp://www.movabletype4.org/beta/cgi-bin/mt.cgi (disabled)

2. Movable Type Open Source

2.1. Beta Version: 4.1-en-release-29-r1335-20080124 4.1-en-release-29-r1319-20080123, 4.1-en-release-29-r1319-20080122, 4.1-en-release-29-r1288-20080121, 4.1-en-release-29-r1288-20080120, 4.1-en-release-29-r1274-20080119, 4.1-en-release-29-r1274-20080118, 4.1-en-release-27-r1231-20080115, 4.1-en-release-27-r1208-20080114, 4.1-en-release-27-r1208-20080113, 4.1-en-release-27-r1208-20080112, 4.1-en-release-27-r1205-20080111, 4.1-en-release-27-r1186-20080110, 4.1-en-release-27-r1182-20080109, 4.1-en-release-26-r1163-20080108, 4.1-en-release-26-r1148-20080107, 4.1-en-release-26-r1146-20080106, 4.1-en-release-26-r1146-20080105, 4.1-en-release-26-r1141-20080104, 4.1-en-release-26-r1135-20080103, 4.1-en-release-26-r1131-20080102, 4.1-en-release-26-r1131-20080101, 4.1-en-release-26-r1131-20071231, 4.1-en-release-26-r1131-20071230, 4.1-en-boomer-r1116-20071224, 4.1-en-boomer-r1108-20071221, 4.1-en-boomer-r1108-20071212

- release date: January the 24^th 23^rd 22^nd 21^st 20^th 19^th 18^th 15^th 14^th 13^th 12^th 11^th 10^th 9^th 8^th 7^th 6^th 5^th 4^th 3^rd 2^nd 1^st December the 31^st 30^th 24^th 21^st 12^th, 2007

- access url: http://www.movabletype4.org/opensource/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

Happy absolutely free testing!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on December 13, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Trackback (0)

Movable Type Open Source is up - Give it a look!

Today there is a great time for all bloggers around the world as Six Apart launched Movable Type Open Source known also as MTOS or Movable Type OS.

What is cool about it is that the product contains absolutely all the features part of the commercial Movable Type (v4.01 as we all know it so far) plus a set of minor improvements and bug fixes.

MTOS is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

(you may like to check the entire press release here)

I should confess you that I've enjoyed the MTOS launching announcement together with the Six Apart team that was present at Le Web 3 forth edition in Paris, including Chris Alden, the Six Apart CEO

I bet you are curious to give it a look and so I won't take up any more of your time

Go to:
http://www.movabletype4.org/opensource/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

And login with:
- username: demo
- password: demo

The commercial version is still and will continue to be available at:
http://www.movabletype4.org/cgi-bin/mt.cgi

Same login information apply (demo/demo)

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on December 13, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

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