Textpattern: Dean Allen of Textism has finally released his open-source content management system.
I downloaded and installed it and was quite impressed. It’s more flexible than Movable Type and actually slips out of the blogging format quite a bit. It’s closer to the metal than some of the other systems (it lets you play with raw PHP for one thing), but there are a couple advantages over tranditional blogging platforms.
Chris and I will do a full review of this soon.
Textpattern: This app has finally been released in "gamma," whatever that is. Sounds like a pre-pre-pre-beta, which is what I thought an "alpha" was... When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to…