Upgraded to MovableType 3.11
I just upgraded to MovableType 3.11, and it could not have possibly gone smoother (and no, this is not the new software I am testing).
It adds quite a few new features, but the most noticeable one is likely that I can now have sub-categories, which I plan to take advantage of in the photography section as soon as I can. Probably won’t be tonight, as I have to go to work early in the morning.
The software that I have been talking about for the past two entries is something called Ecto (available for both Mac OS X and Windows). It runs on your desktop, and allows you to maintain your blog (making new entries, editing old ones, setting preferences, etc.) all from a desktop app, so you don’t have to paste everything into a web form. It has a good preview function, which even goes and gets your site’s style sheet so the preview is accurate. It will also auto-scale and upload pictures to your blog (which I plan to take advantage of, as it will be a LOT easier to post photos. It even has an integrated spell checker.
Unfortunately, Ecto does not yet support the sub-categories of MovableType 3.11, but I am sure it will before long.
Ecto can also add the little “iTunes is playing…” messages to the bottom of my blog entries automatically. I plan to link them directly to the iTunes Music Store, so if by some bizarre chance I am listening to something you want to buy, click the link from my site, and I’ll get a nickel.
I also plan to make a couple of changes to the style sheet in the next couple of days, although I am not going to change the look as drastically as I planned to before.
OK, so I know this post was light on content, but it’s basically another test to see how Ecto will behave. I’ll get back to my normal level of useless crap soon.
EDIT: It is worth nothing that there is a beta of Ecto 2.0 available, and I am only using 1.1.8. 2.0 may do all sorts of cool stuff I have not even realized yet.