September 2004 Archives

The Six Apart Professional Network, which launched with the release of Movable Type 3.1, has become our home for updates on tutorials, documentation, and general news about what's happening with Six Apart. In addition to the mailing list (monitored by our own staff, including the developers of Movable Type), we've just released one of our first tutorials to the public.

Written by Brad Choate, who created Movable Type 3.1's Smarty-based dynamic publishing system, the architecture overview covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with this powerful new set of features. And the Professional Network gives us a chance to let Network members shine as well, as demonstrated by work such as the tutorial on dynamic publishing and .htaccess written by network members Arvind Satyanarayan and Elise Bauer.

Head over to the Professional Network and take a look at what's been buzzing in the community lately, as the Professional Network weblog is updated continuously with relevant news. And take a look at the benefits of membership: Network members had access to Brad's tutorial last week, in addition to finding out about projects and jobs postings that are looking for Movable Type experts.

To get started, look over the overview of membership benefits or just sign up now by filling out the registration survey.

We've just released Movable Type 3.11, an update to version 3.1 which corrects some problems that were preventing many users from upgrading their installations. If you downloaded the general release of Movable Type 3.1 and had trouble using it straight off the bat, this update is for you. Some other bugs were corrected as well; here's a complete list of changes from version 3.1: * Corrected some problems with upgrades: from 3.0x to 3.1x with Berkeley DB, or from 2.6x to 3.0 with any database system. * Updates to templates were not reflected on dynamic pages after saving an entry; that's now fixed. * In some older versions of Perl, a syntax error blocked any use of the application. * Category paths (e.g. "Mammals / Primates / Orangutans") were being omitted on some blog pages. If you already purchased Movable Type, or downloaded the free version, you'll be able to download the new release for free from your Movable Type account. As always, we'll be glad to know of any further problems you come across. Thanks for bearing with us!