Textpattern Public Gamma Release

24 February 2004

It’s been about a year since Dean Allen’s Textpattern was initially previewed. It’s been through hell and high water and has emerged on the other side a beautiful and powerful beast. It’s still a little way off being a polished version 1 release, but is getting pretty damn close.

You can download Gamma 1.12 right now and try it out for yourself.

Update: You’ll notice that on this site above the comments for each post is a section called Mentions. This is a new trackbackesque feature in Textpattern that I’m testing out. It’s very new and a little unrefined, but has masses of potential. Excuse me testing it publicly – but these things have to be done.

- Drew McLellan

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§ Nick Caldwell: Awesome. I’m trying it out now on my home server.

I particularly like the logic of the contributors section—“designer” can edit templates, and “copyeditor” can edit content, for instance. Neat!.

The way it fills the css out into a form is cool.

Are there restrictions on commercial use?
§ Pg4aL: Hey, I’ve installed textpattern, but, when are de index of the site? i only can post news, but i can’t view the index of the site, help me! :(
§ Drew: Pg4aL – the best place for your question is the Textpattern forum
§ Paul: That is SO cool. Very well written, and so nicely designed. took a grand total of 20 minutes to set up on my home server.
Hmmm… now I just need to think of a few things to say! :)
Oh… and Happy Birthday for earlier this week Drew!
§ Tom: What can I say…brilliant! Now, to find the hidden settings…

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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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