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May 7

If like me you were introduced to programming back in the days of the Sinclair Spectrum and also found 8 colour games that load on tape amazing then you will find this funny.

hey hey 16K

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Price to pay for MT success

May 13

Today saw the much awaited release of Movable Type 3.0, alas Six Apart have introduced a new pricing scheme that has got the whole MT community up in arms. The reason for this is the large price hike on the back of a release that only seems to differ by the fact that the comment system has been redesigned, and this I知 sure was only because of the spamming vulnerability in the previous version.

However there is still a free version available but this now comes with a restriction of only being allowed one author and three blogs, and therein lies the problem this restriction traps the user. You may never need more than one author and only ever use one blog but it痴 the fact that you are being forced to pay for a possible future upgrade.

I believe that many users would not mind paying a small fee for the software as is, with no restrictions at least for non-commercial use. I bet there would have been far fewer disgruntled MT users today if a fee of say $49 dollars was asked for.

If Six Apart stick with this pricing scheme and maintain author/blog restrictions on the free version I expect MT plugin developers to dwindle vastly in number. Maybe to the point where the only plugins we see are from Six Apart themselves or 3rd parties who charge per plugin. Either way people will migrate to a similar system as is always the case. Heck you find this in open source software all the time. An yet that痴 just the point Movable type has never been Open Source, its a product from a small start-up company that needs to make a profit, I just happen to think they've got their pricing scheme all wrong.

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Movable Type alternatives

May 13

Here is a selection of realistic alternative blog / CMS systems:-


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Open source Java projects

May 19

There are countless numbers of Open Source Java based web development frameworks but little exposure to real-world Open Source Java applications.

Java Open Source software is a Java based Wiki site that contains a whole catalogue of Java Open Source projects, it includes CMS applications to search engine software.

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