Here's my first plugin for Habari.
Magic Tags allows you to use tags to help with formatting and organization. Any tag begining with "@" is not displayed in $post->tags_out. This allows you, for example to tag "asides" with "@aside" and set that up to display in a different format, without having an "asides" tag for the site.

The plugin also includes a function for displaying all of the tags used on the site, similarly filtered.

UPDATE:

I've updated the site tags list to display the number of posts for each tag, and sort by that number. It also hides any tags that have a post count of zero. Download is in the same place.

Download it here

Upgrade Complete. Here's the timeline:
9:15 Downloaded Habari 0.2
9:22 Backup of DB
9:23 Unzip Habari Files
9:25 Start FTP of files
9:30 Upload complete
9:34 Discovered problem with Admin
9:39 Upgrade script provided by Chris J Davis
9:43 Patch Applied, everything working.

Well... since I got to write the "official" Habari 0.2 announcement, I figure I should probably at least mention it here. You can read all about it at HabariProject.Org, but the next release is available. I'll be installing it tomorrow here most likely. I think it's a great project that's progressing constantly.

Yet another reason to love Open Source! I adapted the Lifestream plugin by Chris J Davis and Drunken Monkey Labs, to create my links page. I give it the URL for the feed for sites I link to, and it retrieves the most recent post for each of them. It's, at best, a beta version, because of my "brute force coding" style. I really don't understand exactly how everything works. But it does work!

You can download it here. A quick note, the theme linkstream.php file will probably need some adjustments to look decent in another theme.

I've been working on a new blogging platform called Habari. At least, if you very loosely define the phrase "working on". I help out with little things where I can, but mostly I watch in awe as this project grows and develops.

I don't have the kind of name recognition that some of the other people working on the project have, and there's good reason for that. These people have been working their collective butts off on what can only be described as a labor of love. And love in the grown-up sense, not the adolescent infatuation sense. Love is hard work, sometimes painful, sometimes aggravating. But you believe it is worth your time and energy to make it stronger and better. Because everyone working on the project is a volunteer, the time they are putting in is a sacrifice of time they could be using to do other things. Potentially, more rewarding things. Yet in a few short months they've created something that runs well enough in its infancy to run this site (as well as many others). And they haven't even begun to be satisfied.

There seem to be a few fundamental goals that the developers of Habari share. The first is that they want it to work right. That means the system does what it's supposed to do with as little fuss as possible. Next is they want it to look good. Not just what you see if you read a Habari blog, nor what you see when you run a Habari blog. But they want the code to make sense, the file structures to make sense, the way things interact with each other to make sense. They want the most advanced users to be able to make it do exactly what they want, but at the same time, the most inexperienced user to be up and running with little to no stress. The final thing, and most important thing to me, is that they want the project to belong to itself. If someone has a better way of making something happen, they honestly want to know and use those ideas. Granted, sometimes people (being people), have a difference of opinion as to what's a "better way". Sometimes those differences become arguments. But they also know when to step away from an argument, take a break, and move on.

It's still early, but I think we'll see some very nice things come of this. I'm proud to be a part of this project in my own small way.

Well. I’ve converted my current theme (with a few minor adjustments) for habari and installed it. It seems to be working well at the moment, although the importer did not get the pages (most of which would not work anyway). Also the search function is broken. I’ll see what I can do about those in the next few days. I’m pretty happy with it so far. Still needs some tweaking, but I’m definiately getting there. Check it out.

EDIT: Now, it's up and running as the main site. Please let me know if you find any major problems.