The man, the myth, Michael Bishop has released a new theme for Habari that he lovingly crafted, named "mzingi" which means 'foundation' as skippy notes. Michael is very much foundational himself, so the title is apt. Everytime you use the manual in Habari, you are benefiting from his work. Thank the man!

Everyone give tinyau a round of applause! He relaunched his site yesterday, now powered by Habari. Welcome home man.

I will be speaking at the Ohio Linux Fest, in Columbus Ohio this Septmeber. General admissions to the Fest is free, so if you are within driving distance, you should definately come.

This years Fest is special, and not because I am speaking. It was at OLF 2006 that Scott, Owen, Rich and I gathered around a table at Bucca de Beppo and birthed the project that would become the Habari Platform.

Quite a lot has happened in the year since that lunch. We have had two releases and the committer pool has grown from 4 to 14. It has been a great year for Habari... I can only imagine where we will be when OLF 2008 rolls around.

It has been a long time coming, but I am very proud to announce that the Habari Community is releasing our second major release, 0.2.

This new version contains tons of new stuff, and many contributions from the community. You can read the official announcement on the project site, and download the newest release at the usual place.

That is all. UPDATE: There is a file missing from the download, namely the referenced upgrade.sql. Until we can get the release archive updated, you can grab it here. Sorry for the confusion.

I have really become a fan of the "quick post" inline aside thing. It really has played well into the type of blogging I have the time for at the moment.

It began to be a pain to load the admin area and go to the post page, just to write two sentences. So I started brainstorming some ways to make things a little easier on myself.

The solution was pretty straightforward, and with Habari, suprisingly simple to implement.

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So I thought I would outline the process I used to achieve the inline asides effect you are seeing on Sillyness. This was one of those moments where I just love how Habari handles things.

So lets set the stage

So this is what we are going to do. First we choose a tag that we will use to identify our asides. I chose "quickie". Once we have settled on a tag that will be used, we create at least one entry that uses the tag.

Once we have some content to test with, we move on to some PHP goodness. Habari returns an array of tags within the $post object. Normally we would make a call to the tags like so:

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For me to whip out a plugin for Habari that utilizes the stats API released by the Automattic folks?

Inline asides, whatever you want to call them, prompted by Kristin enabling them on her site, this is how you do it with Habari.

There are a couple of things to look at before we get into the actual code:

1. Habari doesn't use categories like WP or MT, we use tags.
2. We need to choose a tag that will identify our inline asides.
3. The Habari loop is much simpler than what you are used to from something like WP.

Okay, with that out of the way, let talk through what we are going to do to achieve the quickie/inline asides that you see on this site.

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