Timothy Appnel

Biography

Timothy Appnel has 13 years of corporate IT and Internet systems development experience and is the Principal of Appnel Internet Solutions, a technology consultancy specializing in Movable Type and TypePad systems. In addition to being a technologist, Tim has a background in publications which included co-founding and managing Oculus Magazine, a free indie music and arts zine, for over 7 years. He is an occasional contributor to the O'Reilly Network and maintains a personal weblog of his thoughts, tima thinking outloud.

Articles

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Developing Movable Type Plug-ins
Publish Date: Mar. 19, 2003Movable Type's features are so rich that the tool's uses have begun to transcend weblogging. In this article, Timothy Appnel examines the MT plug-in framework, its complete API, the basics of hooking into the core systems operation, and its data persistence service. Introducing MIDP 2.0
Publish Date: Dec. 18, 2002MIDP 2.0 improves on the original specification for open development for mobile devices by introducing secure networking, extended network connectivity, and audio and gaming capabilities. Raising the Bar on RSS Feed Quality
Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2002Timothy Appnel says we must improve the effectiveness of RSS feeds. He offers recommendations for authoring more useful and effective feeds with an approach that is neutral, practical, and conservative. An Introduction to WSIL
Publish Date: Oct. 16, 2002The Web Service Inspection Language (WSIL) is an XML document format to facilitate the discovery and aggregation of Web service descriptions in a simple and extensible fashion. Flash MX and the Bigger Picture: Lightweight Internet Applications
Publish Date: Sep. 5, 2002The Web browser is beautiful but certainly not perfect, especially for transactions. Flash MX could help provide a better user experience by adding an application runtime engine to complement browser functionality. Timothy Appnel explains why.

Blog

The first stable release of Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) is here

January 25 2008

Last night, the first stable version of Movable Type under a GPL license was released. You can download it from here. Being a Perl coder and advocate of open source, the release of MTOS has great significance to me personally. There is still a lot of work to be done… read more

"THE" Open Standards Stack for Data Portability? Really?

January 03 2008

RSS is more open than Atom? OPML is more open than XOXO? "THE" stack? What is the criteria here? read more

Atom Publishing Protocol now an IETF Proposed Standard

July 31 2007

The IETF announced that is had approved the Atom Publishing Protocol to be a proposed standard. If you've been waiting for things to get finalized this is it. read more