I was an early MT user back in the days (even did the first french translation - somewhere in 2002). It was the first Pro platform for blogs. But then, several factors got me to move to wordpress for a couple of years, most notably the open-sourceness of WP and the developer community. MT is now fully open-sourced and it is still used by a lot of the most read blogs around. So it was only natural that I would go back to it someday... it's... now.
So had PH (hey where is his blog?) load a fresh version of MTCS4 on a new Amazon instance (more on that in a later post) and started to get back in the MT groove. I must say they did a great job on the admin UI. Wow. But finding the xmlrpc endpoint for editing apps was a bit trickier. It was been moved to /cgi/mt-xmlrpc.cgi (by default) but the real tricky part it that you have to set a different password for accessing MT this way, they now call this the API password. So login thru the web with your user, click on your username and set your API password to a sensible (and memorable) value.
There's a good reason for this, security obviously, but then again, not obvious. But hey, if it works, this will be my first MT post from Ecto thru XMLRPC. It either works or this note will stay in my drafts list until I figure what doesn't work (this being posted on a friday night at 8pm from the office, initially, if the publish date ends up being on monday, blame it on some obscure urge related to malted barley).
Over and out, still have a few emails to answer before I call it a day.
Well the blog will be back soon.
They did a great job with MT, it look like a more mature professional application.