Indeed, I am a Mac user and the blog is about tech. Thanks for the feedback, dropping the _blank.

I would be interested to hear other people's take on this issue in their city.

Making more than I did as a full-time system engineer. http://www.glasscodeinc.com based off IT services alone. Soon to invest the profits into some software for managing enterprise infrastructure and hopefully grow from there.

Your use of the word 'unfounded' in your front page copy is not correct.

Most CMS systems leave the design up to the developer. The UX components are based on how well you lay over CSS, JavaScript and graphics. Drupal and Wordpress already have rich theming systems and a lot of (out-of-the-box) themes that give a nice UX. For something a bit more advanced you could use something like Apache Lenya.

I'm sorry for not specifying more. I'm interested in the part of the system that does the editing, not the theme for the site. The use case where the owner updates his site with new content.

I hear that the Nexus One has a lack of Python support. You would think it would. Anyone know why this is?

Python is one of the languages supported by the Android Scripting Environment: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

I believe ASE is using CPython running as native code, with some kind of bridge into the Dalvik VM.

I'm not sure what the status if JPython on Android is, but my understanding is that for many JVM languages it's non-trivial to port to Android, since many of them are expecting to be able to JIT to JVM bytecodes. This is problematic since Android doesn't use JVM bytecodes, it uses Dalvik bytecodes.

Don't know about it, but not sure why there would be lack of Python support. I suppose for standard apps they would have to run on a Java VM, so only Jython would be possible. Don't know about the state of Jython...

I assume if you root the phone, you can also run native apps, so why shouldn't Python work?

It works fine. Python (outside of the admittedly limited scripting SDK) is not a first-class API for Android. But it was running on the G1 within weeks of release (as was most of debian, FWIW) and there are certainly no barriers to using it.

But the supported API is Java-based, and that legitimately annoys some people even if it pleases others. Google isn't banning python, certainly, but neither are they pushing it. No different than any other phone, I guess.

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