This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Tobias Luetke. Original Post: Typo 2.5 released Feed Title: too-biased Feed URL: http://blog.leetsoft.com/xml/rss/ 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. Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Tobias Luetke Latest Posts From too-biased

We released the latest typo and its just oozing with amazing features. Many of the additions were demanded by the recent influx of high traffic and high profile blogs. Here are some choice additions:

• Static Caching, your typo blog will now serve thousands of pages per second with ease. All the active elements of the frontend were moved into JavaScript

• First official release with the new Azure theme

• Multiple theme support, please create your own!

• Newly designed admin interface

• Textile, Markdown and Smartypants support, all bundled

• Enhanced spam protection

• Quick post functionality

• Support for multiple users posting to the same blog

• Powerful sidebar management with drag and drop goodness

• Monthly archives

• Multiple syndication support built in for 43things, del.icio.us, Flickr, upcoming.org, tadalist, technorati, 43places and much more.

• Ajax’ed out the wazoo

• Edit/nuke comments while reading them in the frontend ( as admin )

• Converters for most major blog software including import from RSS feeds.

... and tons more new features and improvements. The svn repository number doubled since the last release.

In other news:

Please welcome our new dev team members Justin Palmer who is responsible for the typo visual identity and themes and Scott Laird who reinforces the typo hacking team. Scott did the majority of typo improvements in the last weeks. The theme system, the sidebar admin and countless other improvements were his work.

For more, read the stable page on the typo trac.