Just upgraded this site to Movable Type 3.36 following the recent security advisory. Upgrade process was smooth and all seems well at this point. I’m still working on upgrading everything to the latest version 4 — just need to dedicate some time to sit down and finish it. Once I get upgraded to version 4, I can start allowing OpenID login for comments. (Including Yahoo!, which just announced this yesterday.)
This is the second installment of my quest to install simulators on my Windows XP system for all the major smartphone platforms. Yesterday we covered the BlackBerry simulator; today we’ll tackle the Palm OS version of the Treo. The first step will be to the Palm developer center. If you don’t already have a free developer account, register for one now. (It’s necessary to download any of the simulators.) Since we’re covering devices based on Palm OS, I’ll pick the latest which is the Centro smartphone. Palm offers a simulator for each device, so follow these steps to get the…
In order to accurately test mobile websites on a variety of devices, you either need to buy a bunch of phones (if you’re a big developer and can afford it), or go the cheap route and rely on device simulators from the manufacturers. In order to better understand how Cantoni.mobi looks and behaves, I’m going to install all the major simulators I can find and document the steps along the way. To get rolling with the testing of BlackBerry devices, we’ll start at the BlackBerry Developer Program and find the page for BlackBerry Developer Tools. There are two different software…
If you’re a Flickr user and have been wanting a better understanding of who is viewing your pictures, you’ll be happy with today’s launch of Flickr stats for pro members: No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you — we’ve launched another of our most often requested features. Yay! In order to get started, you’ll need to first login to Flickr, then visit the stats activation page. That page will tell you to wait a bit for the stats data to appear. The FAQ says it may take up to 24 hours, but mine were ready in about 10 minutes. (But then,…
The open source version of the Movable Type publishing/blogging platform is launching today. See the announcement for more details (a podcast is also available): As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. It looks like the open source version (MTOS) has all the features and functionality of standard Movable Type 4 edition (MT4), but also includes other improvements and bug fixes. It sounds like the code was forked, “open-sourced”, and now released. The current MT4 product, along with the enterprise addon…