Comments for For My Friends on Word Press

For My Friends on Word Press

2007-09-25T01:22:37Z

Jessie Gardner of Plastic Mind Design posts Ten Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to MT 4 Instead of WP 2.3. Or, if you count funny, maybe it's seven reasons. Or eleven.

Whatever. Now's the time for you WP'ers to come over to the MT world with MT4. Still free for personal use, a revitalized community, nifty new features, modular templates, MT Open Source on the horizon. Come on in, the water's fine.

If you do make the jump, let me know how you like MT4. I'm waiting (less and less patiently) for some of my must have plugins (Photogallery, Rightfields, MTBlogroll, MT-Notifier to name a few) to get upgraded before I can make the jump. :-(

Comment from Jesse Gardner on 2007-09-24

2007-09-25T01:27:32Z

Trackbacks and I are no longer talking. It was an ugly relationship that was bound to end in ruin.

Thanks for the props.

Comment from pinakidion on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T04:47:16Z

Considering that I don't use the regular plugins (I remove dashboard, first thing. I do not care about tags. Blah Blah Blah) The only reason valid to me is

5. You can run all your blogs in one install. Unlike WP-MU, it doesn't take a separate version of the system to run many blogs, and all the plugins that work with MT work with all your blogs.

Otherwise, it's like the usual vi or emacs war.

Comment from salguod on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T12:36:35Z

Otherwise, it's like the usual vi or emacs war

Huh? OK, I have heard of vi so I assume that emacs is another bare bones text editor. I guess that's the geek equivalent of the Ford vs. Chevy thing for car guys.

Yeah, it probably is, but having invested in MT (and watched many folks flock to WP in recent years), I gotta cheer when 'my side' looks strong (and get a dig in on WP) when I can.

Comment from mark on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T13:20:34Z

"I assume that emacs is another bare bones text editor"

Dang. I drink my coffee with sugar in it, so now my keyboard's all sticky and it's all your fault.

Comment from salguod on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T13:51:35Z

I thought vi was a basic text editor for unix. Evidently I'm wrong.

When you're done cleaning your keyboard you want to 'splain it to me?

Comment from mark on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T14:11:27Z

vi is a basic text editor, though it has always done things like paren-matching and versions of it now have some keyword highlighting.

Emacs has always been more - there are numerous jokes about that. For me, being able to run gdb and make within the editor and automatically go to errors found by make made it a pseudo-IDE back when Real IDEs (I remember trying out one called Object Center) were just too darned slow to be useful.

Though I spend most of my day in Eclipse or VS, I still use it occasionally for relatively powerful regex search and replace in certain kinds of refactoring that the IDEs don't really handle well. A vi guy would try to do these in awk or sed and find that some replacements happened they didn't really want.

Plus, at no extra charge, the Native Extension Language is Lisp, making it Fully Buzzword Compliant.

Comment from pinakidion on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T14:58:08Z

Considering that I use nano instead of either vi or emacs, I guess I'm the real odd guy out. Still, emacs-muse looks really interesting...

I appreciate your cheering for MT4. I seriously considered switching because I believed that it would be open source. Unfortunately, the license is too restrictive for me, it cannot be used in a commercial enterprise. I would have to force Sycarion Diversions to remain on Wordpress after switching everything else to MT4. Ugh.

I may, however, switch the church website to MT4. We'll see.

Comment from salguod on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T16:03:41Z

I seriously considered switching because I believed that it would be open source.

It will be, I believe by year's end (that link says end of summer, which was, uh, last Friday). I'm not sure what the differences will be, but there will be some. Byrne Reese of Six Apart says in the comments that MT4 and MTOS will share 99% of their code.