Habari

StatusNet names all releases after R.E.M. songs so here’s my idea for future Habari release codenames. It’s a well kept secret that all Habari developers and users adore that popular beat combo - The National. The Habari development roadmap in full 0.7 - October 2010 -Developer Release 1 (‘10/10/10') 0.8 - January 2011 (‘Pay For Me') 0.8.1 - February 2011 (‘Murder me Rachel') 0.9 - June 2011 (‘Lit Up') 0.9.1 - August 2015 (‘Slipping Husband’ aka ‘Slipping Release') 0.9.2 - November 2015 (‘Mr. November') 0.9.3 - January 2016 (‘The Geese of Beverley Road') 0.9.3.1 - January 2016 (‘Mistaken for Joomla') 0.9.3.2.1.3(Alpha 3, RC1) - January 2016 (‘Start a War') 0.9.4 - March 2017 (‘Afraid of Everyone') 0.9.5 April 2017 (‘Your Patches Were a Kindness') 0.9.9 - June 2017 (‘Conversation 1,000,016’ aka ‘Taxonomy revisited') 1.0 (Final) - Thursday December 25 2019 (‘Bloodbuzz Ohio')

Apart from a short-lived crisis of confidence - after losing a Draft post, I spontaneously migrated this blog to Wordpress as an interim hop before completing 99% of a full blown migration to Django-Mingus which I then immediately discarded - I have used Habari as my preferred blogging platform for two and a half years. It’s been a while since the last major Habari release (0.6) but, because I run the latest 0.7 development code (using SubVersion), the lengthy gap and absence of a formal 0.7 release didn’t particularly bother me. ...

You see - I’m really wasted in IT. I really should be in pre-sales or on ‘The Apprentice’. I thought I’d return to my minimalist roots and change the theme on this blog. If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, no need to click through and leave a comment telling me ‘I use an RSS reader so I don’t care about your new theme’ because I already know. If you think ‘Hey - this theme is simply a blatant rip off of Russell Beattie’s blog, I’m going to run and tell him’, don’t bother. I already know and so does Russell.

Dear Prudence That’s excellent news. I am glad to hear you have managed to get PDO installed and now have Habari up and running on your site. As for how I happened to stumble across your site, well…. There’s an army of committed, passionate Habari enthusiasts who routinely conduct Twitter, Web and blog searches for every single mention of the word ‘Habari’. In addition, one of the primary responsibilities of the mysterious organisation - the Cabal - is to infiltrate Government intelligence agencies worldwide (GCHQ, NSA, Mossad, KGB) and access transcripts of all mobile phone conversations and SMS text messages. Sophisticated AI algorithms (grep with regular expressions) are then used to mine that data, searching for Habari related terms. ...

Introduction Habari is a blogging platform, created back in January 2007 and in the subsequent 18 months, the software has matured and version 0.5.1 was recently released. Originally, I downloaded and experimented with Habari late in 2007 but it wasn’t until February 2008 that I finally took the plunge and migrated my blog from WordPress. Installation Habari requires PHP 5.2 (or higher) and PHP Data Objects (PDO). If your hosting company can’t meet these requirements, think about switching to one that can. Habari also supports multiple database types: ...

‘Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it.’ The migration of this blog from WordPress to Habari is mostly complete. I had a few unexpected problems with a significant number of comments and a handful of posts that contained mismatched HTML tags and didn’t display the corresponding page at all. So I had to painstakingly review every single post with comments and correct the HTML by hand. ...

I simply couldn’t resist the temptation any longer so this blog is now running on Habari because: The Habari Administration screens look like they have been designed rather than evolved. The WordPress import utility works brilliantly. Michael C. Harris created a TinyMCE plugin for Habari - literally minutes after my initial enquiry. Most of the required functionality (Google Analytics, Feedburner, Akismet, Sitemap) is available as plugins for Habari. Michael Harris also helped me configure rewrite rules so my existing WordPress permalink structure is retained. A gentleman called Harry from London developed this attractive Habari theme.