April 13, 2008 2:48pm

Google Chart API

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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.

Now we just have to make sure that we need to change the values on the y-axis by a couple of orders of magnitude by the end of the year.

April 13, 2008 1:06pm

Interview with me, strangely

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Welcome to the first Habari PMC interview. today we're talking to the newest member of the Habari Project Management Committee, (jokingly known as the "Cabal"). Michael C. Harris, better known as michaeltwofish in the #habari IRC channel.
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April 10, 2008 2:42pm

On the Habari bus

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I got on the Habari bus about 6 months ago, and was immediately impressed by how seriously members of the project take the idea of community. The quality and inclusiveness of the community is without a doubt the major reason I stuck around and started contributing opinions, code, documentation, and opinions. Recently I had the privilege of being invited to sit up the back of the bus with the big kids. That is, I've been invited to join the Project Management Committee, playfully known as the Cabal. I'm flattered, and it's an invitation I'm very happy to accept. I've ...
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April 1, 2008 9:37pm

HabariCon 2008

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I'm a bit bleary eyed from the flight, late as it was, but I'm safe and sound. I only just managed to check into my hotel and get wifi connected, and I'm going to have to head over to iPony to help set up. I'm excited to be back in the US again, especially to finally meet up with the Habari crew. Hopefully I'll catch up with you at HabariCon!

March 31, 2008 8:53am

Get live help when you run Habari

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As Habari moves towards its first non-alpha release—the 0.5 beta is due out on 15 May—we can expect more users that aren't developers to try out the software. We need to make sure that the early experiences these users have is as positive as possible. Of course, being beta, there are still going to be issues, as well as the learning curve of using a new piece of software. As the community is pretty developer heavy at the moment, new folks are usually developers too, and if they are having issues they simply jump onto #habari and talk to other ...
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February 27, 2008 12:54pm

Moving clients to Habari

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While I moved my own blog to Habari a few months ago, I'd been resisting moving my very small number of clients over on the grounds that WordPress is more stable, there are more plugins, it's more well known. However, I was playing with the lazy-k gallery, bending it to my own needs, and that pushed me over the edge. It wasn't anything to do with lazy-k as such—it's a fine little tool—but it just became increasingly obvious as I wrestled that this would be so much easier in Habari from scratch. I was wrestling with WordPress, and I don't ...
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February 22, 2008 2:13pm

Habari bwana?

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[T]he Habari community is pleased to present version 0.4 of Habari ...
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February 19, 2008 9:56am

WYSIWYG Editors for Habari

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Rick Cockrum writes about wysiwyg editors for Habari, noting that Habari's editor uses raw HTML by default. That might be fine for techie geeks, but is unlikely to go far in the long run. The first option you have is to use an alternative HTML-izible markup, and there are plugins available for Textile and Markdown (actually two for Markdown, here and here, though I really wish they could merge into one version). That may still be too geeky for most. The second alternative is to use one of the recently released WYSIWYG plugins, of which there are three. ...
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February 19, 2008 9:25am

Another graphical editor plugin for Habari

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If the TinyMCE plugin is a bit heavy for your preferences, Christian Mohn (aka h0bbel) has just checked a NicEdit plugin into the Habari extras repository (download a packaged version from http://habariproject.org/dist/plugins). I did a bit of the coding, so if you have any feature requests, let one or both of us know. Specifically, there are currently no configuration options. If you don't configure you just get the most basic functionality. If you configure and hit save, you get the full panel. Hey, let's call it a work in progress.

February 5, 2008 3:07pm

Skippy makes Habari leet!

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There seems to have been a frenzy of activity since the Bug Hunt. Today we reached a special milestone though, as skippy committed revision 1337, a bug fix that closed yet another ticket.
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