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I guess this means Zope Corp. needs to shut down, then. ;( Bloody stupid patents!

An interesting checklist; I might not agree with all of them, and might add some additional ones, but it makes a good starting point.

Via http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/09/life-assessment

I was laying over in the Nashville airport on my way to Austin this evening, ...

I knew Mark Pilgrim was a really smart guy...

I made a pretty good living for several years as a Delphi guru; if I had to go back to GUI-programming hell, I would want to use Delphi, or something damned close. Lazarus looks like it might fit the bill (but they need lots of help on their website!) Lazarus is the foundational tool for the newly-released CBTracker, an open-source checkbook manager.

Cringley writes of the mess created by a foolish fixed-price contract between EDS and the Department of the Navy. Althought I have never been involved in anything that huge, I know the pain which a bad fixed-price engagement brings.

I recently repackaged Zope for OpenPKG, upgrading it to version 2.7.0. I also packaged CMF, version 1.4.2. Here is how you can install them (note that Python 2.3.3 is a prereq, with make, binutils, and gcc as the "transitive" prereqs).

Wow! I can imagine lots of uses for this: editing XML-based content, for instance, as well as other "structured" text content.