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I was surfing for some movabletype vs wordpress comparisons based on a discussion at work (I’m firmly in the WP camp due to the extensive plugin and theme work I’ve done for the prince.org blog, but still curious to know what’s up in the MT world), and came across this entry from Dustin Diaz discussing it. The most telling part was actually one of the comments, from Molly Holzchlag, who wrote the Teach yourself Movable Type in 24 hours book:

Dustin, did you hear me shouting in enthusiastic agreement when I read this post? I’m sure you did.

While I still fight spam, WordPress has made it a lot easier to do so. And yeah, I might have written a book on MT, but I was so fed up with the product that the very week the book came out I switched to WordPress.

I agree that MT has some nice features. But I’m very happy I switched all told.

Now, granted this is from 2 years ago, and things can change a lot in 2 years, but damn, that sucks when the person who just published a book about your product changes their mind and enthusiastically jumps to the competitor. Must have been an akward book tour

Tags: blogging, Books, diss, wordpress

I don’t know if there’s a TON of great Ruby-on-Rails jobs out there, but this looks pretty interesting, I’ve personally used the Blurb service and application and it’s really quite impressive… it’s sort of like the books you can make from within iPhoto, but taken a couple of orders of magnitude more powerful. The finished products aren’t too cheap (well, neither are the iPhoto books), but are quite nice. I don’t have any idea how much RoR there really is to do, seems like a lot of the work is in their client, but hey, someone can contact them and find out

Here’s the posting, cribbed from this post at Valleywag’s jobs section (yeah, I know, it’s a little weird they even have one… what is the catchphrase, “reaching more rumor-loving engineers than Craigslist”?):

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Tags: Books, coding, iPhoto, jobs, rubyonrails, sanfrancisco, software