I’m proud to announce the 2.0 release of the typo web logging engine.
What started as a toy project while
I was waiting for a client at starbucks now became a prestige open
source project with tons of modern features a dedicated dev team and
even its own hosting service!
The 2.0 release has been long coming. Here are some of the new features:
Highlights:
HTML admin - Thats right, I gave up. Typo now has a real html admin
and you can access most of its features from it. Some minor features
are still desktop client only but you can definitely get your blogging
fix on vacation now.
Sophisticated Spam protection. Patrick Lenz ported the most popular
Movable Type spam protection weapons right to the typo codebase. Typo
ships with more spam protection than most other engines can get with
plugins.
Ajax galore. Comments are posted using Ajax, We also have a live
search like google suggest and live textile/markdown preview in the
admin.
Pretty urls (permalinks)
Other feature improvements:
One-click setup
Support for non-vhost installations
Support for multiple authors
Pagination
Syndication of 43 Things
Database backed sessions
Transition to ActionWebService
Markdown support
Migration script for MovableType 3 users
Extended testing suites
Non code:
Justin Palmer has started working on the Typo visual identity which is
due to arrive with the next release (bye bye kubrick)
You can see the new typo logo here: http://www.encytemedia.com/images/5.png
I would like to thank all the contributors who sent patches and
suggestions for this release. Especially I want to thank Patrick Lenz
and Seth Hall for the tireless bug fixing and improvement of the code
health.
Typo is now 1435 lines of very aesthetic code and is backed up by 1120
lines of tests putting it at a 0:8 ratio.
thats all I can say. I downloaded the .gz file… unpacked it. created the
database. started server. went to locahost:3000 and had a blog up and
running in under 5 min. Amazing.
Great job guys. This is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Now I’m gonna
go and tear this thing apart and learn from the masters… =]
I’m proud to announce the 2.0 release of the typo web logging engine.
What started as a toy project while
I was waiting for a client at starbucks now became a prestige open
source project with tons of modern features a dedicated dev team and
even its own hosting service!
The 2.0 release has been long coming. Here are some of the new features:
Highlights:
HTML admin - Thats right, I gave up. Typo now has a real html admin
and you can access most of its features from it. Some minor features
are still desktop client only but you can definitely get your blogging
fix on vacation now.
Sophisticated Spam protection. Patrick Lenz ported the most popular
Movable Type spam protection weapons right to the typo codebase. Typo
ships with more spam protection than most other engines can get with
plugins.
Ajax galore. Comments are posted using Ajax, We also have a live
search like google suggest and live textile/markdown preview in the
admin.
Pretty urls (permalinks)
Other feature improvements:
One-click setup
Support for non-vhost installations
Support for multiple authors
Pagination
Syndication of 43 Things
Database backed sessions
Transition to ActionWebService
Markdown support
Migration script for MovableType 3 users
Extended testing suites
Non code:
Justin Palmer has started working on the Typo visual identity which is
due to arrive with the next release (bye bye kubrick)
You can see the new typo logo here: http://www.encytemedia.com/images/5.png
I would like to thank all the contributors who sent patches and
suggestions for this release. Especially I want to thank Patrick Lenz
and Seth Hall for the tireless bug fixing and improvement of the code
health.
Typo is now 1435 lines of very aesthetic code and is backed up by 1120
lines of tests putting it at a 0:8 ratio.
