Taking a chance on love

I'm awfully fond of Movable Type, the weblogging software that powers parts of this site, so against my ordinarily cautious nature in these matters, I just upgraded to the latest beta release. It's niiiiiice—it looks gorgeous and feels zippier all around.

The upgrade process was, as promised, simpler than ever: just download the tarball, uncompress and upload the new files. Rather than having to run an upgrade script, the necessary upgrades happen automagically the first time I ran the software. It's the closest thing to a desktop-level "double-click to install" process I've seen yet for a web app.

One minor glitch: After the upgrade, I found I wasn't able to access my MT-Blacklist (a utility for dealing with comment spam) settings in the Plug-In control panel. It turns out to be an easily remedied problem, even for my meager skills:

For those running any version of MT-Blacklist 2.x, you can also do a search and replace within Blacklist.pl instead of uploading that file. Look for this line of code:

return 1 unless $MT::VERSION =~ m(^3.1);

And replace it with this:

return 1 unless MT->version_number >= 3.1;

It's also necessary to move the files mt-blacklist-styles.css and mt-blacklist.js from the root MT directory into the new mt-static directory so the MT-blacklist pages render correctly.

Wow. I think this is one of the geekiest things I've written in recent memory, and I even understood most of it.

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