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10/10/2005 Archived Entry: "October 25, 2005: Byrne Reese on Movable Type, at Six Apart"

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Our October meeting will be sponsored (including food ;) ) by Six Apart. It's October 25, two weeks from tomorrow. To my pleasure, I learned that they have hired Byrne Reese of SOAP::Lite fame, so he'll be giving the talk. Here's what Byrne has to say on the subject:

Movable Type is not "blogging software." It is a "publishing platform." Furthermore, it is not just a platform for plugin developers, but application developers well. Few other plugins demonstrate that better than Media Manager [which Byrne wrote, prior to joining Six Apart].

Tonight we will go under the hood of Movable Type, using Media Manger as an example, to share code samples, discuss the underpinnings of Movable Type's architecture and demonstrate how any one can use Movable Type to build compelling, fully integrated, blogging applications.

Byrne's outline:

I. Introductions
II. Overview of MT and Media Manager
III. Introduction of the MT Platform
A. template tags
B. text filters
C. callbacks
D. alt-templates
IV. Under the hood
A. MT::Plugin
B. MT::Object
C. MT::App

Read on for location details...

When: 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25
Where: Six Apart, 548 4th St. (between Brannan and Bryant)

The closest BART station is Powell. It's a bit of a hike, so try the 45.