Jonathon Delacour the heart of things

MT 2.2 here I come?

Mark Pilgrim is having fun with MT 2.2’s MySQL support as well as waxing lyrical in my comments about MT 2.2’s new plug-in architecture:

…we’re seeing evolution of blogging tools that support a wider variety of forms. Categories, linkbacks and inline referrers, hybrid wiki/weblogs, guest blogs, dynamic Amazon and Google searches for related content.

As people start digging into the new MT plugins being developed that give fine-grained control over entry lists, I think we’ll see even more experiments in form, further and further away from the link-comment-permalink-timestamp box.

Some enterprising young souls will make cool plugins that scratch an itch, some other soul will pick it up and realize it solves some thorny problem in an elegant way, and suddenly the whole world of blogging shifts subtlely, the feature gets built into the next rev of everything, and people start quoting it as an “essential” element of blogging…

Though I was underwhelmed by TrackBack (on reflection, I think it’s just that I didn’t take the trouble to understand it), MT support for MySQL and plug-ins has grabbed me by the short and curlies. I’ve been working on a book project for a couple of years now and it’s occurred to me that, at the very least, I can create a draft or prototype in MT. I’d even be interested in doing it as an e-book, after following Dorothea Salo’s pointer to the Joseph J. Esposito essay, The Processed Book.

Today I decided it’s time I moved up to MT 2.2. I called my Web hosting service and they told me that I’d need to upgrade to an “Enterprise Plan” if I wanted the DBD::mysql module. That would cost me about US$150 a month so I’m in the market for a new hosting service. I already have one in mind but I’d be grateful for recommendations.

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