I spent a day in Irvine, California interviewing some of the software engineers who built the Google Analytics API, starting with Jacob Matthews, the tech lead behind the API. If you haven't read any of our API documentation yet but you have been wondering what the Google Analytics API is all about, we put together a couple of videos where we hear about the API from the people who built it. Here is the first one where we keep it high level and ask Jacob, "What is the Google Analytics API?"

Movable Type 5.0 Beta 2 is now available…

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Beta 3

Beta 3 is now under development and will be primarily focused on various UI improvements.

Read on for Known Issues in Beta 2 and Resolved Issues in Beta 2.

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Known Issues in Beta 2

To be fixed in Beta 3

• Cannot save pages and entries sometimes on 5.0b1 (FogBugz 102281)
• [Design] Comment Pagination is only for Classic Template on slapshot (FogBugz 102223)
• Better Categories listing on Edit Ccustom Fields screen (FogBugz 102403)
• Custom Fields default values are not displayed on dynamically published start-topic.html of Community Forum (FogBugz 102402)
• Cannot insert asset on Page/Entry body on FF3.0x (FogBugz 101829)

Please refer to FogBugz: Greyhound Beta 3 for all registered cases

Resolved Issues in Beta 2

Major Cases

• Site Path and URL on generic website has been set uncorrectly during version up from MT4 (FogBugz 102210 : Fixed)
• When revision history is off, Template preview button is not displayed (FogBugz 102379 : Fixed)
• Unable to edit template (FogBugz 102376 : Fixed)
• [Forum / Theme] body tag looks odd (FogBugz 102294 : Fixed)
• Unable to delete actions on the Action Streams screen (FogBugz 102234 : Fixed)
• Display CF’s name exactly on Display Option (FogBugz 102197 : Fixed)
• Move to another website/blog by "Select another website/blog…" sometimes generate error (FogBugz 102193 : Fixed)
• Wrong message when add addressbook (FogBugz 102185 : Fixed)
• Website search doesn’t work in the website listing dialog (FogBugz 102174 : Fixed)
• "Create personal blog for user" shouldn’t checkable when Personal Blog Location isn’t set (FogBugz 102173 : Fixed)
• Export Theme : Missing theme options = folder (FogBugz 102156 : Fixed)
• Restore: ‘View Activity Log’ doesn’t take you to Activity Log screen (FogBugz 102142 : Fixed)
• Cannot back up on windows (FogBugz 102140 : Fixed)
• Import screen is displayed on Website wide (FogBugz 102138 : Fixed)
• Unable to create a page in a website via XML-RPC using Windows Live Writer (FogBugz 102132 : Fixed)
• Other Profile: Unable to update ‘Google News’ (FogBugz 102128 : Fixed)
• Tag search result use the template of first value of IncludeBlogs (FogBugz 102123 : Fixed)
• Display error message when nonexistent blog_id is specified in URL (FogBugz 102104 : Fixed)
• Validate form inputs when saving a new theme (FogBugz 102098 : Fixed)
• Page archive display comment paginate links even if the page have no comment (FogBugz 102095 : Fixed)
• [Customfields] About the system object and the type of order of the row (FogBugz 102085 : Fixed)
• Custom Field: On published blog, CFs ignore "required" thingy (FogBugz 102060 : Fixed)
• Sidebar menu sometimes doesn’t work under fastcgi (FogBugz 101911 : Fixed)
• Add “recommended” to MySQL on mt-config.cgi-original and during installation (FogBugz 101783 : Fixed)
• Improve the error message on the community settings screen? (FogBugz 101657 : Fixed)
• Theme can include pre-resized thmubnail image. (FogBugz 101097 : Fixed)
• Revision History: Record ‘Custom Fields’ change (FogBugz 101408 : Fixed)
• FB: Archive Templates ignore sort by customfield (FogBugz 102259 : Fixed)
• mt:Entries with sortby=”title” sortorder=”ascend” lastn / offset / tag / limit doesn’t work (FogBugz 102057 : Fixed)
• FB: MTInclude global=”0|1” doesn’t work fine when use both on a template (FogBugz 102016 : Fixed)
• Auto-Save should be cleared once page is saved (FogBugz 53790 : Fixed)

Cases from Beta 1

• Some administration screens are not displayed properly on Internet Explorer 6 and 7.(See below : fixed)
• Cannot Include folders in Theme (FogBugz 102156 : fixed)
• Error message is displayed when you hit Enter key to create a new category and tag. (fixed)
• Backup and Restore are not fully functional.( FogBugz 102141, FogBugz 102140 : fixed )
• Error occurs when you post page with Windows Live Writer.(FogBugz 102132 : fixed)
• Required field validation is not working on the comment and user custom fields. (FogBugz 102060 : fixed)
• Side menu is cached on FastCGI environment (FogBugz 101911 : fixed )
• IE6 related cases in FogBugz 102227, 102221, 102214, 102192, 102184, 102354, 102352, 102348, 102345, 102319, 102286, 102267, 102261, 102260, 102257, 102251, 102229, 102216, 102183, 101749, 101749

Please refer FogBugz: Movable Type: Greyhound Beta 2 for complete list.