September 22, 2005
Playing with MovableType
Learning about this web log software, Movabletype by SixApart, is pretty interesting. The source code for the blog software is provided in its entirety, and it is designed very nicely for configurability and expandability. It's awesome for a tinkerer like me, plus there are hundreds of other tinkerers like me that have created useful plugins for Movabletype already. Changing the layout and the basic look & feel was pretty straightforward; now I'm taking the next step to modifying the behavior of the blog.
I've already installed MTAmazon, which allows me to place search results from Amazon.com into my blog, and I've installed and modified BookQueue with which I can track the books I plan to read, am reading, or have read, and which uses the MTAmazon plugin to retrieve data about the books. See it in action on Sherri's blog page as well as her "Books I have Read" page.
I've also installed Feeds.App from Appnel Internet Solutions which allows me to add RSS feeds on my blog pages; you can see it in action on my blog in the right hand column, where it says Sherri's Recent Entries.
I've also added some not so visible enhancements which help protect me from getting spammed, like an e-mail address obfuscator which makes e-mail addresses impossible to "harvest" from the web page source, but still usable by you, the readers.
There are several more little utilities I plan on adding, as time permits... check back once in a while to see what's new and different...!
Posted by Michael at September 22, 2005 10:06 PM | Technical
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