So I'm still in the process of setting up this Movable type blog, but now I'm just playing with fun stuff. I hope in the next few days to try and move to using lighttpd to host this, and the rest of my site. The server I'm using isn't very powerful, so keeping things at a minimum would be good (though it's a whole lot more powerful than my last server. Good thing it makes an excellent router though).
So what's so great about Movable type? Well, it publishes static html, which means there's no processing needed when someone visits the page. This will certainly suite lighty, as it's a fantastic static content server. The other nice thing (I think) is that it uses cgi, or FastCGI, another area where lighty excels. The only thing that annoys me is that I can't view more templates, the link doesn't work...
I have a few plans for extending Movabletype though; I'd like to modify the Markdown plugin to call hscolor and syntax highlight literate haskell in posts, then run markdown on the rest of the post. I'll be following http://passingcuriosity.com/index.php/2008-12/literate-haskell-with-markdown-syntax-hightlighting/ to some degree, and hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a pain. So if you're interested, stay tuned and hopefully I'll have a working beta by the end of the week.
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