I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
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Today, ACCESS, a Japanese company that acquired PalmSource (not to be confused with Palm, which... oh, never mind) earlier this year, announced that they will be absorbing the PalmSource brand. Probably a good thing.
I've been a Palm user for about seven years now, and have done my share of pontificating and pondering their fate, but I hadn't really read up on the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). The summary on their website mostly made my eyes glaze over ("standards-based software architecture ... best-in-class ... combined technology portfolios ...") until I got to this part:
[M]ajor open source components of ALP include:
- A standard Linux Kernel: ALP is based on a standard open source Linux kernel (version 2.6.12 and above)
- An optimized implementation of GTK+: (The GIMP Toolkit): Popular open source framework and libraries for the creation of graphical user interfaces
- Gstreamer: An open source, modular and multi-threaded streaming media framework
- SQLite: A high-performance database engine commonly used in embedded applications
That sounds, well, hot. Maybe it's time to learn PyGTK.
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