I use HTTP Auth for one of my Textpattern installations, and so, I wanted people that could get to the textpattern pages to have, by default, staff writer permissions.

There have been a few documented ways to migrate MT entries to textpattern. One of the issues has been preserving existing links to entries. Here is one way to do it.

One of the things I used heavily in MT was the body/extended body trick. I wanted to continue that with Textpattern, but it involved some hacks to how TXP handles excerpts.

This is a simple hack to add one of my favorite MT-plugins, Brad Choate's MTMacros [bradchoate.com], to textpattern.

Granted, I didn't pull the entire kaboodle. This doesn't do fun container logic and acronym matching, etc. But it does do simple string replacement, which is what I used it for (e.g. smilies and pretty attributions).