There wasn't much in the way of burgers and beer for Jay Allen and his colleagues this past barbecue weekend. As product manager for Six Apart, the publisher of Movable Type, Jay faced a big problem: an upgrade to a popular third party software application was causing tens of thousands of Movable Type blogs to behave erratically.

Movable Type engineers (Brad Choate gets a special mention) worked with the third party software engineers to fix the problem and so everything should be fine once the software gets updated at web server hosting facilities.

On top of that, it was Jay's birthday too, and the poor guy says he won't see sunlight until he gets version 3.2 of Movable Type out the door--that's the Geek Life and it's not for the faint of heart. But we wouldn't want it any other way...

From Jay:

An update to the DBD::MySQL driver has been posted by the developer.

Movable Type users affected by the problem because of the automatic CPanel updates will also be automatically fixed within 24 hours.

Update also posted to the Six Apart ProNet and MT News blogs.