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Textpattern updates · 10. June 2004, 00:15

Gamma 1.19 released – now powering robwall.com
I have updated this site to run Textpattern · g1.19 the latest and greatest release of Textpattern The major news for this release is that Textpattern has been relicensed under the GPL. In the announcement linked to above, Dean Allen (the creator of Textpattern) notes this and that he is now actively soliciting volunteers to work on Textpattern and to submit patches. The code will shortly be available from a subversion repository.

Supporting Textpattern
I have been very happy with Textpattern so far, to the extent that I would probably have been willing to pay a reasonable sum for using it on my personal site (i.e. on robwall.com). It now looks like I won’t have to pay. I do, however, understand the difference between free speech and free beer – so my conscience is once again torn between using the software and not contributing or donating. Donating money has never quite seemed right to me for an open source project – I’d rather code (I could document and/or test too but coding is my forte). Coding requires time, the one commodity I have least of. Hopefully I can find the time to contribute usefully to the project in some way as I continue to use it (I hope to improve the structure of this site and really take advantage of Textpattern over the coming 3-4 months, right now I don’t really know enough about it even to document anything accurately).

TextDrive
One way to support the software would have been to take part in Dean’s TextDrive offer. TextDrive is a new hosting service created by Dean. Although not specifically for Textpattern hosting, Dean used a novel method of funding his startup. The first 200 responding to the offer on the Textpattern forums would receive hosting for life (or as long as TextDrive exists – which ever ends first) for their initial investment of $200 dollars. This seemed like a very good deal and perhaps I shall come to regret not taking Dean up on it. For now though I am happy with my hosting and future plans may require me to purchase a VPS setup where I can host everything anyway.

I’d like to wish Dean the very best with Textdrive. I sincerely hope that it lives up to all of his expectations.

Note: It is still possible to support Dean by moving your hosting to Textdrive The rates and supported features look good. If you’re not happy with your current hosting, then go on over and take a look! Only the first 200 respondants to Deans initial announcement get the hosting for life though.

Textpattern Resources
I have linked to Joel Dueck’s Textpattern Semantics
and Pedro Palazón’s Textpattern tags before. Three other resources that have recently come to my attention include:

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