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Original Post: Typo 2.0 arrives
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Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money.
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
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.
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