December 2010 Archives

Not really a programming question, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask. Is there a reasonable way to get my hands on the source package for MovableType 2.x? (v2.6 to be specific.) That's circa 2003 apparently.

I'm trying to work with an old archived blog and it would be extremely helpful to run some diffs against the clean source. I can't find any documentation for that era online to refer to either, so right now I'm working blind.

I'm vaguely aware of an "ownership change" in MT's history but I'm ignorant of any details that might explain the absence of historical versions on the internet. Are there resources still available for MT from that long ago? Has my google-fu simply failed me?

Not really a programming question, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask. Is there a reasonable way to get my hands on the source package for MovableType 2.x? (v2.6 to be specific.) That's circa 2003 apparently.

I'm trying to work with an old archived blog and it would be extremely helpful to run some diffs against the clean source. I can't find any documentation for that era online to refer to either, so right now I'm working blind.

I'm vaguely aware of an "ownership change" in MT's history but I'm ignorant of any details that might explain the absence of historical versions on the internet. Are there resources still available for MT from that long ago? Has my google-fu simply failed me?

I'd like to get smarter excerpts of sections of text. As I'll be using Movable Type's regex_replace function, I'm gonna be trying to grab everything after the first few sentences.

While \..* gets everything after the first period, that often leaves a too-short excerpt. How might I do the same thing (everything after the first period) but skipping the first 100 characters?

Alternatively, how would I just grab everything after, say, the second or third period?

I'd like to get smarter excerpts of sections of text. As I'll be using Movable Type's regex_replace function, I'm gonna be trying to grab everything after the first few sentences.

While \..* gets everything after the first period, that often leaves a too-short excerpt. How might I do the same thing (everything after the first period) but skipping the first 100 characters?

Alternatively, how would I just grab everything after, say, the second or third period?