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Went to the Vancouver Software Development Meetup on Tuesday night for a presentation about Plone, a content management and workflow framework. I won't be installing it anytime soon on my shared web host (it's outside the capability of my current plan), but it's was definitely worthwhile to see what it does.

OK, and it was cool to win one of the door prizes, Python in a Nutshell.

Now I can follow up on a presentation by Adrian Holovaty at WebDirections North about Django, which is also built on Python, and is also a framework.

In her blog, Molly.com asks "what's a framework?"

Good question. I'm not going to try to give the Wikipedia answer, but I know one when I see it.

Hey, here's one! A blog is a framework. Without programming, I can create a new web page, while updating all of the related pages for monthly indexes and keyword pages, plus the search index. All other frameworks are just extensions of the same idea.

I've been spending a bit of time lately testing out various Linux distributions for an upcoming SmallBizResource article. Since there aren't nearly enough Linux distributions in the world, somebody should write a framework for creating new Linux distributions.

Hmm....

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