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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the spike in developer activity after the merging of the Monolith admin theme into the Habari trunk (though I kind of regret the tremor reference, given the pain in China). Things have continued apace since then, and Owen has written a great post about what's been happening. Again, none of this would be possible, or anywhere near as interesting, without the great community. A small excerpt.

Since the merge of the Monolith code, there have been 99 commits. That's roughly one commit every three hours for the past two weeks. ... As I write this, we're merging the source for our 100th commit in the past two weeks, which will enable Postgres database support. This makes for three database engines that Habari will officially support - a true, multi-engine package. We've also just added s9y imports, which will be a great way for s9y users to try out Habari by importing their data. I'm looking forward to more importers for other popular blogging packages.

• All The Community That Your Blog Doesn't Have - Asymptomatic

I recommend going and reading the whole thing.

Habari translations have been going full steam ahead on Launchpad. We currently have translations completed in 5 languages (Danish, German, Japanese, Low German, Traditional Chinese), underway in eight languages (Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish) and a volunteer signed up for Italian and Piemontese (and I've never even heard of that). This is all pretty exciting for me, never having seen a translation happen before, but one of the most gratifying things is that I don't know two thirds of those that are actively doing translations. Great to have you involved! It seems some other members ...

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A minor tremor has been sent through the Habari community. First, some background. While many (in the context of the number of people who have tried out this little alpha project so far) have said that Habari's "Create" page is a joy to behold, the wider administration section has been a work in progress for some time. Several times posts were made to the development list with mock ups and discussion but nothing concrete had been put in place. Back in February, Michael Heilemann announced that he had been working on a new design for Habari's administration pages, Monolith. ...

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I've updated the comment code in Connections. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know if anything seems awry. If it's bug free, it's probably time I released another version. Boy, am I sick of it though. I really need some time to write a new theme.

I work with the team that makes another blogging app, and at least from the standpoint of the quality of the code and application design, Habari is inarguably better [than WordPress]. As Sean notes, though, it's not very mature, so the user experience for a non-technical user would likely be worse. Where you'd make the tradeoff of whether it's worth it depends on where you reside on the continuum from programmer to non-programmer. Some of the technical things I love about Movable Type (which I use) include support for database abstraction, support for multiple blogs, and a well-designed infrastructure for ...

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…Habari is object-oriented. Habari supports database independence. Habari uses an MVC model to separate templates from logic. Habari supports multiple template engines. Habari has a database schema that was designed for efficiency from day 1. Habari has a different kind of community supporting it, one where people who show the ability, willingness, and responsibility to act within the community get the power to do so. This is the iceberg tip.

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I've just been mucking around with the Google Chart API, a straightforward way to produce graphs. Just for fun, here's a graph of new bookmarks of the Habari Project web site on del.icio.us.