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5 February 2004

Like a black cat in the Matrix, the underlying code has changed but the outward appearance is the same. This is Textpattern Reloaded. Sporting attractive new RSS and ATOM feeds, I now have the ability to grow my site and do all the cool things I’ve been waiting for. And yes, I believe it’s been worth the wait. Most of the changes affect me more than you, but add up to helping me provide more content more often with greater ease. Major props to Dean for all his hard work.

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- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Jesse: Ohhh iChat.. now you are a mac user ;)

    One thing I noticed in NetNewsWire is that the RSS lets me know how many comments and I imagine it will let me know when that has changed. That is cool when you are in the middle of a Mac preaching session on somebody else’s website….
  2. § Lonnie Olson: I am soooo jealous. I have been waiting for Textpattern since b7 came out. Erg.
  3. § Venomous Kate: I’m waiting, too. Any idea when those of us interested in moving from other blogging software can start testing TP out?
  4. § mamash: /me does the envy dance too
  5. § Dean Allen: Drew and a handful of others are doing a great job squashing bugs right now, and I’d like to continue that for a few more days.

    Thereafter, for the brave, there’ll be a 1.0 Gamma public release and subsequent nightly builds until it looks stable enough to appear with bells on.

    Regarding a schedule, I’m still hoping to get it out by last April :-)
  6. § Jon MacG.: Hi, I happened to notice this post while searching for the oh-so-hidden-and-famous-at-the-same-time TextPattern. I’m a webmaster who’s been trying to find an ideal CMS to manage some of these sites that I maintain, and I’ve been particularly picky about choosing which one to go with (extreme comes to mind). Dean Allen’s CMS looks really nice, and I have to say I’d be interested in testing it and putting it to use, even if it isn’t released to the public yet. With this testing in mind, is there a link from which I can get the test/beta version? I would like to be of any help with the testing. Ok, anyway, thanks to the person who wrote the post for at least showing up in Google, even if he didn’t know about it (;)).

    -Jon
  7. § Drew: Jon – I’m not sure of Dean’s exact schedule, but I believe they’ll be a public release soon. If you really can’t wait you should contact Dean directly.
  8. § Jon MacG.: Ah, that sounds good. Thanks. Hopefully by then I’ll be able to switch to a new host. My host’s been… depressing, in a word.

    -Jon

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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