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MT was never open source so far

Here is another one of my blog comments made elsewhere that went too long that I want to post it here.

Ben Tshin posts about migrating his sister’s MT and blogger/blogspot blogs to WordPress and writes:

So they took the originally open source MT2.x and made it “closed source” for MT3.x.

What now follows is the comment I left with a few minor grammatical edits and hyperlinks added.

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"Getting Cute" Defined

“Getting cute” is a phrase I sometimes use when commenting on development or architecture of software systems. Here is my best attempt to define it in more formal terms.

Applied to coding, “getting cute” is when a developer or company employs a hack or complicated solution to a problem where a simpler more straight-forward, perhaps even existing, solution seems like it would have sufficed. The phrase is sarcastic in nature and generally should be regarded as a mild criticism. This validity of its application is conjecture and is always relative to the speaker’s experience.

Feeds.App Tip: Conditionally Formatting Feed Content

Since Anil bestowed such high praise on me, I guess the pressure is on to live up to it.

I've been meaning to write about some of the not so apparent features in Feeds.App for a while now. A lot of effort and consideration has gone into the design of that plugin (more then anyone could possibly appreciate) and, truth be told, I've done a poor job of documenting and explaining it.

This post is mostly based on a reply I made on the Feeds.App discussion list. (No link -- I'm looking to officially phase that list out in favor of the MT community forums.)

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