I'll be presenting in just over a week at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Developers conference. My presentation is entitled Running Movable Type Locally
. The official abstract posted on my session:
Movable Type is one of the most popular server-based tools for publishing weblogs, but do you know that it can used as a local Mac OS X publishing or knowledge management tool? With MT and Darwin's open source foundations you can. In this session Tim discusses some of the tips and techniques used to do it. Topics covered will range from usage patterns to technical know-how including installation, utilizing the MT API, and a review of helpful plugins and scripts. The session will conclude with some questions, answers and brainstorming.
The idea of this presentation came from the fact I do all of my initial development and testing locally on my Powerbook before moving it to a remote server. (I actually have 3 versions of MT currently running on my machine.) When initially setting my my environment I found a few posts on the topic, but I thought they could be better. While I could easily fill 45 minutes going over that installation step by step, even being so bold as to try doing it live in front of a studio audience, I thought the idea of running MT as a local productivity tool was far more interesting. After all, MT is making strides towards being a platform, why would should it be limited to servers?
- Do you use (or have tried running) MT in this
local
manner and if so how? - What hurdle do you perceive to running MT in this manner? What is
missing?
- How would you like to see this concept evolved?
- What specific topics would you like to see covered that is not mentioned in the abstract if you were attending?
Comments are open. Your thoughts are appreciated.
I'll be making any slides or notes I create available after the conference. (Watch this space for more.)
Lastly, if you will be at the conference, please attend my session! My slot is on the last day, last session. I keep telling myself they are saving the best for last, but I'm doing a poor job of convincing myself of that presently.
UPDATE: I tried to put comments into my layout here, but alas the code from the default templates is too much of a hairball to get working. Please use the old fashion way and email me.
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<p>I'll be presenting in just over a week at the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2004/">O'Reilly Mac OS X Developers conference</a>. My presentation is entitled <q>Running Movable Type Locally</q>. The official abstract posted on <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2004/view/e_sess/5801">my session</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Movable Type is one of the most popular server-based tools for publishing weblogs, but do you know that it can used as a local Mac OS X publishing or knowledge management tool? With MT and Darwin's open source foundations you can. In this session Tim discusses some of the tips and techniques used to do it. Topics covered will range from usage patterns to technical know-how including installation, utilizing the MT API, and a review of helpful plugins and scripts. The session will conclude with some questions, answers and brainstorming.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The idea of this presentation came from the fact I do all of my initial development and testing locally on my Powerbook before moving it to a remote server. (I actually have 3 versions of MT currently running on my machine.) When initially setting my my environment I found a few posts on the topic, but I thought they could be better. While I could easily fill 45 minutes going over that installation step by step, even being so bold as to try doing it live in front of a studio audience, I thought the idea of running MT as a local productivity tool was far more interesting. After all, MT is making strides towards being a platform, why would should it be limited to servers?</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you use (or have tried running) MT in this <q>local</q> manner and if so how?</li>
<li>What hurdle do you perceive to running MT in this manner? What is <q>missing?</q></li>
<li>How would you like to see this concept evolved?</li>
<li>What specific topics would you like to see covered that is not mentioned in the abstract if you were attending?</li>
</ul>
<p><del>Comments are open</del>. Your thoughts are appreciated. </p>
<p>I'll be making any slides or notes I create available after the conference. (Watch this space for more.)</p>
<p>Lastly, if you will be at the conference, please attend <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2004/view/e_sess/5801">my session</a>! My slot is on the last day, last session. I keep telling myself they are saving the best for last, but I'm doing a poor job of convincing myself of that presently.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I tried to put comments into my layout here, but alas the code from the default templates is too much of a hairball to get working. Please use the old fashion way and email me.</p>
