blake johnson

Over the weekend, the Habari community released version 0.5. Among other things, this version features a redesigned administrative interface. Something that I am particularly excited about (and, correspondingly, something which I put a lot of work into) is the time line:

The time line gives a visual representation of dates of your posts; the size of each month corresponds to the number of posts in that month. You can then filter posts by date by simply dragging the loupe over the relevant section of time. A similar interface widget appears in flickr’s organizr tool, but this is the first time I have seen it in a blogging platform.

Habari is now stable enough to be used on any personal blog. So, I encourage you to try it out. We’re not quite ready for corporate multi-author blogs because we have not finished adding access control lists (to define roles such as administrators vs editors, for example). This is the primary goal for Habari 0.6.

Earlier today I was asked to join the Habari project management committee, and I enthusiastically said, “yes!” I’ve been putting in a lot of hours lately into implementing Habari’s new user interface, named Monolith by Michael Heilemann. I am very excited about this platform and where it is headed. The community of people around the project have been very welcoming and supportive of my work. So, thanks!

I am going to start the process of moving this thing over to Habari. I am really not sure what will be broken when I am done, but I do know that my RSS feed link will be different. So, if you subscribe to my blog with a feed reader, the new feed location will be here. I will try to make it so that the old feed still works, but that may take a couple days.

Update: Now rocking Habari! Somethings might not work (if you find anything let me know). I do know that a bunch of old posts are going to show up in my feed because Habari’s Atom feed shows the 10 most recently updated posts, not the 10 most recently created posts. I needed to update a bunch of links on my old posts, hence the strange feed.