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Media Manager works with Amazon. Again.

Not too long ago Amazon made some important changes to its API to improve security, but this change had the unfortunate result of breaking Media Manager. My knee-jerk reaction was to just go into my code and implement the API...
Still Making Things

As my life has been slowly re-attaining equilibrium after having a second child, I have still somehow managed to find time to make things. Thank god, because making things keeps me sane when life wants to dog pile my schedule,...
Say "Hello" to Daisy Amelia Hailey Reese

In a way I am never to forget, our newest addition, Daisy Amelia Hailey Reese, was brought into the world at 5:16am on June 26, 2009. She was 7lbs, 10oz and 20.5 inches long. Labor was a mere 45...
Meet Melody

People who know me, know that I love Movable Type. In fact I have devoted much of the last five years to the product and its community. Therefore it gives me great pride and much relief to be a part...
It looks like Harper is going to have a...

Baby Sister!!!...
Initial Photo Gallery Builds Available

Thanks to the Blog Herald's quick write up on the new Mid-Century Photo Gallery plugin I have gotten a number of volunteers to help test out the first builds of the newly refactored Photo Gallery plugin for Movable Type. Here...
Podcasting for Movable Type just got better

Podcasting support for Movable Type just got better. In this most recent release of the Podcasting plugin for Movable Type, iTunes support has been rounded making it easier than ever before to get your podcast listed and listed properly within...
Promote This! Plugin updated

Following the request of a user I have updated the Promote This plugin for Movable Type, the plugin similar to the Socialize plugin for WordPress to include support for Technorati and Ma.gnolia. Thanks for the suggestion cognitive dissident!...
Finally: Cutline for Movable Type 4

About twice a month for the last year I have been getting requests to update my port of the Cutline theme to Movable Type 4.x. Today I am happy to announce that I have a first draft of the updated...
Clean Sweep Updates

A while ago I switched from Apache to Lighttpd and in the process I broke my very own plugin installed locally here on majordojo: Clean Sweep. Clean Sweep is a plugin designed to help put an end to 404's...
More Photo Gallery Enhancements

Last week I began the long overdue process of upgrading the Photo Gallery plugin to work with Movable Type 4.1. A week later I have made a number of improvements and have gotten the plugin to a point where...
YouTube and Flickr support comes to Media Manager

In yesterday's hackathon I took another whack at Media Manager 2.0 adding support for two of the web's most popular media sharing services, Flickr and YouTube. I have yet to update the documentation for these new services, so here are...
Clean Sweep 1.0 Beta 2 Released

Just finished making a round of enhancements to Clean Sweep and have released the second beta. In this release I have added the ability to map URLs to different HTTP status codes allowing you to signal to search engines and...
Introducing Clean Sweep for Movable Type 4

When I upgraded this blog to Movable Type 4.0 I wanted more then anything to completely start fresh. To rethink my URL structure, the use of hyphens vs. underscores in my file names and so on and so forth, but...
It's a Whole New World: Movable Type 4.0 Launches

Earlier tonight we released Movable Type 4.0. It is hard to describe the feelings I have for this release, perhaps because it is 2:30am and I still am online reading the reviews coming out; but most likely because this is...
Where is Byrne blogging now?

I typically wouldn't feel it necessary to post excuses as to why I am not blogging on majordojo, but what I have been consumed by for the last two months warrants some attention here, as it is near and dear...
Agile QA Practices: A Better Way to QA

The past several years the Internet has been transformed by a slew of new web based tools and applications. A key success factor in all of these applications is adherence to a development methodology in which product teams release fewer...
Less blogging, more programming

Earlier this week I had the opportunity at the Movable Type Hackathon to dust off some of my "old" plugins and start working on them again. The plugin I chose to work on? Why Plugin Manager of course. It gives...
Announcing "My PHP Google Checkout"

I bet for many people looking to start an online store think of PayPal first. I remember when PayPal first debuted in 1998 when it fueled a renaissance in Internet commerce by enabling the long tail of retail - second...
Brief Outage

I wanted to quickly acknowledge that all of majordojo recently had a brief (2 day) service outage. The outage started on Sunday, October 15 and ended Tuesday, October 17. The outage occurred during a routine maintenence window that my friend...
Vanilla is the new Chocolate

I have been on the look out for good forum software for quite some time to make it easier for me and the users of the various projects I undertake to find help. But nothing I found looked good enough...
Pardon the dust

I am in the midst of redesigning majordojo. Not all of the pages have been transitioned to the new design. You may experience occassional hiccups in appearance and layout. All will return to normal soon. But by all means leave...
Sidebar Manager and Movable Type 3.3

In case you have not heard, Movable Type 3.3 Beta 1 and 2 were released in the last week. This is great news for Sidebar Manager, because with the release of Beta 2 Sidebar Manager has been integrated into the...
Releasing Photo Gallery: a Movable Type Plugin

I have been taking a lot of photos lately and have had to upload them for friends and family to see. I have been using a plugin for Movable Type that I wrote a while ago and have been learning...
OMG Harper!

Harper Ford Reese, 7lbs 6oz, 20 inches, DOB: April 22nd, 2006, 12:38am. Mom and baby are both beautiful....
The Plugin of All Plugins

I am the author of some relatively popular plugins for Movable Type, which is both a blessing and a curse. The “curse” comes from having to do the one thing most developers probably hate: support. And where do you think...
1000+ Downloads of Test Run

Today, the 1000th person downloaded Test Run. Without a doubt, this project of mine is the one I am most proud of. The feedback I have received from users is extraordinary, and each person who tells me how this apparently...
From Alpha to Beta

Plumbing MTAmazon 3.0 with an automated installation and upgrade process was easy. So without further ado, here is the official MTAmazon 3.0 Beta. With the release of this beta my support for the 1.3.3 version will dwindle in favor of...
MTAmazon 3.0 Alpha 2 Released

The next version of MTAmazon is coming along nicely. I am almost at feature parity with the current version. All that is left to is plumb MTAmazon into Movable Type’s installation/upgrade process so that its database schemas are managed automatically...
Sidebar Manager Beta 3 Released

A big thanks to Maarten Schenk who is the author this release of Sidebar Manager. Maareten added all the hooks into the code for proper internationalization. He also set it up so that all new weblogs get a default sidebar....
Sidebar Manager Beta 2 Released

I have received some valuable feedback in the last couple of weeks - most noticably to clean up the user interface a bit. So I have done just that. List Sidebars Edit Sidebar Download and enjoy. Keep reading for a...
MTAmazon 3.0 Alpha 1 Released

Without further ado - here is the MTAmazon 3.0 alpha release (unix, windows). I stress alpha because the plugin comes without documentation of any kind. Intrepid hackers will have a little creative backwards engineering to do. On the other hand,...
MTAmazon 3.0 almost ready for alpha

So, this holiday vacation has been the “winter of hacking” for me. MTAmazon is finally getting the rearchitecture it been needing. I am getting pretty close to being able to release an alpha version of it, to allow people to...
Say "hello" to The Bug

I think the following picture says enough: The “Bug” as Arin and I like to call him or her, is due May 9th. Four months and 10 days of solid nights of sleep left and counting....
Everyone likes drag and drop

It has been a busy day. Sidebar Manager has been met with a lot of enthusiasm, but the best was yet to come. The latest release marks the milestone of bringing Sidebar Manager into Beta status. This release is due...
Sidebar Manager Alpha 2 Released

Ok - thanks to those the “bleeding-edge” plugin junkies out there, I have been sufficiently motivated to squash some particularly annoying and easy to fix bugs that I was too lazy to do the first time around. Alpha 2 is...
Submit Your Widget to the Directory

Calling all Movable Type and Widget developers... help expand the Widget Directory! If you have created a widget and would like to add it to our directory, then by all means, post a comment to this post and someone will...
What is planned?

i was anxious to launch the Sidebar Manager plugin. So much so that I didn't bother waiting until it was picture perfect before releasing it. I have a lot planned for this plugin, including: An XML-RPC interface so that external...
Introducing a Sidebar Manager for Movable Type

I have been a Movable Type user for years now, and an active plugin developer on the platform for over a year and a half. I have routinely tried to recruit my friends at work to build this plugin. Then...
MTAmazon[32] 1.3.3 Released

This is to formally announce the release of MTAmazon 1.3.3. This is a significant release for MTAmazon, as not only does it coincide with a new web site design to coordinate MTAmazon's look and feel with my other projects, but...
MTAmazon32 1.3.2 Released

I have wrapped up the latest round of enhancements to MTAmazon32. While this release is relatively small, I consider it a critical release because it fixes a few major bugs, one of which resulted in [some] users being unable to...
Testing out a new design

I have been playing with a new design for my blog in preparation for a planned majordojo overhaul that is coming soon. I think like most blogs, majordojo has grown pretty organically over the years. Its architecture within Movable Type...
MTAmazon and MTAmazon32 to be merged!

I was contacted by Adam Kalsey today, the owner of the original MTAmazon plugin, to see if I would be interested in taking over development for MTAmazon. The answer was an easy one: yes. Yes I would. Why? Because I...
MTAmazon32 1.3.1

I figured I would release the quick fixes (zip and tar) that I have made in the first 24 hours. Sorry I didn't catch these the first time around - a little spit and polish never hurt anyone I suppose....
MTAmazon32 1.3 Released

By far the biggest technical support issue I have faced is that of a new MTAmazon32 user being unable to use the plugin because they don't have sufficient priveleges to edit system plugins settings in order to enter in an...
Two new blogs

In the past several weeks I have begun using TypePad more and more, and for obvious reasons if you know anything about me. I have been enjoying its simplicity over Movable Type's slightly more technical user interface. Don't get me...
A New World Apart

Almost eight months ago I started the process of looking for a new job. I began this process by simply making a list of the companies whose products I enjoy using and respect the most. It was a short...
Continued Improvements

For some reason I have been getting a lot of e-mails recently regarding some of my open source PHP projects. Enough to warrant cleaning up some of their homepages in an effort to make it easier for users to learn...
A new look...

For a long time I thought the black and white aesthetic for majordojo was attractive in its simplicity. But after a while it just seemed boring. So I stayed up late, made a few tweaks to a stylesheet here and...
New majordojo PHP Apps Released

A recent upsurge in majordojo PHP application usage by third parties has finally forced my hand to pay a little attention to those apps, upgrade them to the latest in PHP best practices (including getting rid of the dependency of...
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Recent Entries in Announcements

Media Manager works with Amazon. Again.

Not too long ago Amazon made some important changes to its API to improve security, but this change had the unfortunate result of breaking Media Manager. My knee-jerk reaction was to just go into my code and implement the API...

Still Making Things

As my life has been slowly re-attaining equilibrium after having a second child, I have still somehow managed to find time to make things. Thank god, because making things keeps me sane when life wants to dog pile my schedule,...

Say "Hello" to Daisy Amelia Hailey Reese

In a way I am never to forget, our newest addition, Daisy Amelia Hailey Reese, was brought into the world at 5:16am on June 26, 2009. She was 7lbs, 10oz and 20.5 inches long. Labor was a mere 45...

Meet Melody

People who know me, know that I love Movable Type. In fact I have devoted much of the last five years to the product and its community. Therefore it gives me great pride and much relief to be a part...

It looks like Harper is going to have a...

Baby Sister!!!...

Initial Photo Gallery Builds Available

Thanks to the Blog Herald's quick write up on the new Mid-Century Photo Gallery plugin I have gotten a number of volunteers to help test out the first builds of the newly refactored Photo Gallery plugin for Movable Type. Here...

Podcasting for Movable Type just got better

Podcasting support for Movable Type just got better. In this most recent release of the Podcasting plugin for Movable Type, iTunes support has been rounded making it easier than ever before to get your podcast listed and listed properly within...

Promote This! Plugin updated

Following the request of a user I have updated the Promote This plugin for Movable Type, the plugin similar to the Socialize plugin for WordPress to include support for Technorati and Ma.gnolia. Thanks for the suggestion cognitive dissident!...

Finally: Cutline for Movable Type 4

About twice a month for the last year I have been getting requests to update my port of the Cutline theme to Movable Type 4.x. Today I am happy to announce that I have a first draft of the updated...

Clean Sweep Updates

A while ago I switched from Apache to Lighttpd and in the process I broke my very own plugin installed locally here on majordojo: Clean Sweep. Clean Sweep is a plugin designed to help put an end to 404's...

More Photo Gallery Enhancements

Last week I began the long overdue process of upgrading the Photo Gallery plugin to work with Movable Type 4.1. A week later I have made a number of improvements and have gotten the plugin to a point where...

YouTube and Flickr support comes to Media Manager

In yesterday's hackathon I took another whack at Media Manager 2.0 adding support for two of the web's most popular media sharing services, Flickr and YouTube. I have yet to update the documentation for these new services, so here are...

Clean Sweep 1.0 Beta 2 Released

Just finished making a round of enhancements to Clean Sweep and have released the second beta. In this release I have added the ability to map URLs to different HTTP status codes allowing you to signal to search engines and...

Introducing Clean Sweep for Movable Type 4

When I upgraded this blog to Movable Type 4.0 I wanted more then anything to completely start fresh. To rethink my URL structure, the use of hyphens vs. underscores in my file names and so on and so forth, but...

It's a Whole New World: Movable Type 4.0 Launches

Earlier tonight we released Movable Type 4.0. It is hard to describe the feelings I have for this release, perhaps because it is 2:30am and I still am online reading the reviews coming out; but most likely because this is...

Where is Byrne blogging now?

I typically wouldn't feel it necessary to post excuses as to why I am not blogging on majordojo, but what I have been consumed by for the last two months warrants some attention here, as it is near and dear...

Agile QA Practices: A Better Way to QA

The past several years the Internet has been transformed by a slew of new web based tools and applications. A key success factor in all of these applications is adherence to a development methodology in which product teams release fewer...

Less blogging, more programming

Earlier this week I had the opportunity at the Movable Type Hackathon to dust off some of my "old" plugins and start working on them again. The plugin I chose to work on? Why Plugin Manager of course. It gives...

Announcing "My PHP Google Checkout"

I bet for many people looking to start an online store think of PayPal first. I remember when PayPal first debuted in 1998 when it fueled a renaissance in Internet commerce by enabling the long tail of retail - second...

Brief Outage

I wanted to quickly acknowledge that all of majordojo recently had a brief (2 day) service outage. The outage started on Sunday, October 15 and ended Tuesday, October 17. The outage occurred during a routine maintenence window that my friend...

Vanilla is the new Chocolate

I have been on the look out for good forum software for quite some time to make it easier for me and the users of the various projects I undertake to find help. But nothing I found looked good enough...

Pardon the dust

I am in the midst of redesigning majordojo. Not all of the pages have been transitioned to the new design. You may experience occassional hiccups in appearance and layout. All will return to normal soon. But by all means leave...

Sidebar Manager and Movable Type 3.3

In case you have not heard, Movable Type 3.3 Beta 1 and 2 were released in the last week. This is great news for Sidebar Manager, because with the release of Beta 2 Sidebar Manager has been integrated into the...

Releasing Photo Gallery: a Movable Type Plugin

I have been taking a lot of photos lately and have had to upload them for friends and family to see. I have been using a plugin for Movable Type that I wrote a while ago and have been learning...

OMG Harper!

Harper Ford Reese, 7lbs 6oz, 20 inches, DOB: April 22nd, 2006, 12:38am. Mom and baby are both beautiful....

The Plugin of All Plugins

I am the author of some relatively popular plugins for Movable Type, which is both a blessing and a curse. The “curse” comes from having to do the one thing most developers probably hate: support. And where do you think...

1000+ Downloads of Test Run

Today, the 1000th person downloaded Test Run. Without a doubt, this project of mine is the one I am most proud of. The feedback I have received from users is extraordinary, and each person who tells me how this apparently...

From Alpha to Beta

Plumbing MTAmazon 3.0 with an automated installation and upgrade process was easy. So without further ado, here is the official MTAmazon 3.0 Beta. With the release of this beta my support for the 1.3.3 version will dwindle in favor of...

MTAmazon 3.0 Alpha 2 Released

The next version of MTAmazon is coming along nicely. I am almost at feature parity with the current version. All that is left to is plumb MTAmazon into Movable Type’s installation/upgrade process so that its database schemas are managed automatically...

Sidebar Manager Beta 3 Released

A big thanks to Maarten Schenk who is the author this release of Sidebar Manager. Maareten added all the hooks into the code for proper internationalization. He also set it up so that all new weblogs get a default sidebar....

Sidebar Manager Beta 2 Released

I have received some valuable feedback in the last couple of weeks - most noticably to clean up the user interface a bit. So I have done just that. List Sidebars Edit Sidebar Download and enjoy. Keep reading for a...

MTAmazon 3.0 Alpha 1 Released

Without further ado - here is the MTAmazon 3.0 alpha release (unix, windows). I stress alpha because the plugin comes without documentation of any kind. Intrepid hackers will have a little creative backwards engineering to do. On the other hand,...

MTAmazon 3.0 almost ready for alpha

So, this holiday vacation has been the “winter of hacking” for me. MTAmazon is finally getting the rearchitecture it been needing. I am getting pretty close to being able to release an alpha version of it, to allow people to...

Say "hello" to The Bug

I think the following picture says enough: The “Bug” as Arin and I like to call him or her, is due May 9th. Four months and 10 days of solid nights of sleep left and counting....

Everyone likes drag and drop

It has been a busy day. Sidebar Manager has been met with a lot of enthusiasm, but the best was yet to come. The latest release marks the milestone of bringing Sidebar Manager into Beta status. This release is due...

Sidebar Manager Alpha 2 Released

Ok - thanks to those the “bleeding-edge” plugin junkies out there, I have been sufficiently motivated to squash some particularly annoying and easy to fix bugs that I was too lazy to do the first time around. Alpha 2 is...

Submit Your Widget to the Directory

Calling all Movable Type and Widget developers... help expand the Widget Directory! If you have created a widget and would like to add it to our directory, then by all means, post a comment to this post and someone will...

What is planned?

i was anxious to launch the Sidebar Manager plugin. So much so that I didn't bother waiting until it was picture perfect before releasing it. I have a lot planned for this plugin, including: An XML-RPC interface so that external...

Introducing a Sidebar Manager for Movable Type

I have been a Movable Type user for years now, and an active plugin developer on the platform for over a year and a half. I have routinely tried to recruit my friends at work to build this plugin. Then...