On the occasion of the ninth birthday of Antville I just uploaded the packages for the new official Antville Release 1.2 to the development site.

Please feel free to take a look. I particularly recommend trying out the AntClick package. It contains everything you need to run Antville on your own computer – including web server, database, bells and whistles and all. And it is easily installed and configured. Two clicks, as usual. :)

With less than 6 megs download size it is probably the full-featured weblog software with the smallest footprint out there! Anyway, it is the bestest AntClick evah. Get it while it’s hot!

For me personally a long, winded road ends here. It started in 2007 with the infamous Summer of Code and went the unfathomable ways with twists and turns, breaks and detours until this happy ending. Finally.

In the meantime Antville.org moved to yet another new server and the project got a solid foundation with establishing the association, the verein.

And now a new release. Hell freezes over! After more than six years!!!

I am sooo happy about this.

So thanks to all of you who helped Antville becoming the star. You know who you are.

Of course still other roads are ahead for Antville, you and me, altogether; new junctions as well as well-worn paths. I am looking forward where they are going to lead us. Because they will!

Onward, for another decade!

Humble apologies for an accidental typo in one of the configuration files for Antville.org – which lead to a ~50 min misdirection of all Antville.org sites to the development site, beautifully visible in the health diagram.

It’s a real masterpiece: mdk.antville.org.

Die Release Candidates (quasi die Generalprobe vor der endgültigen Veröffentlichung) der Version 1.2 von Antville und AntClick sind soeben online gegangen:

code.google.com

Sieht so aus, als wäre unsere Test-Installation darin verwickelt... Bitte jedenfalls um Nachsicht, damit hatte ich nicht gerechnet.

AntClick 1.2 Beta, the latest hotshit in terms of Antville development, can be downloaded from code.google.com.

AntClick enables you to run your very own Antville installation on your PC or Laptop with a few clicks – all inclusive with Webserver, Database and the full monty of Antville features, some that fresh they are not even available anywhere else!

Please try it, I am looking forward to getting some feedback from you.

Habe das Blogger-Dossier in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung erst jetzt gelesen, und ich freue mich sehr über die Erwähnung von Antville an passender Stelle. Danke schön!