Habari Watch

Michael Nacos migrates his technical blog to Habari which is great news as he now has a vested interest in maintaining PostgreSQL support in Habari.

Ali B also resurrects his blog with a shiny new design after a short hiatus and relocating to a primary Habari development hub - Melbourne.

Another Australian with too much time on his hands who has been very busy over the summer break is Simon Elvery who has overhauled his Habari site with a very striking design which is also HTML5 compliant.

Colin Seymour also discovers that further resistance to the lure of Habari is futile, migrates his blog and unveils a sparkling new design to celebrate.

The ability to display images from Picasa in Habari has been a longstanding and much repeated request (well, by me anyway) and Amanda shows us how to accomplish the task with some live examples.

Last weekend saw the Habari Party take place in Columbus and Sean created a special blog to record the occasion while Scott posted a mysterious photo from the mysteriously named 'Surly Girl Saloon'.

There's a lot of chatter about Posterous which is, in simple terms, a blog that accepts posts via email and I've noticed a few people enquiring whether Habari supports such functionality. Of course, the answer is 'Yes'. Mike Lietz recently took the opportunity to dust off and polish the Habari PBEM (Post to Blog by EMail) plugin. I've tested the updated plugin which works great and includes posting images that are attached to the email. So, if you have a Habari blog and have a burning need to be able to post from a phone or email is your preferred posting method, please try out the PBEM plugin.

Finally, on the plugins front, Rick Cockrum produced a Habari importer that allows people to migrate Habari content between database platforms so if you originally used MySQL but would like to experiment with PostgreSQL or SQLite, now's your chance.

Update: Just happened across some video footage of Habari party on ustream. Enjoy.