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I started an open source software project a couple of weeks ago, sort of. It's about as minor as something like this gets -- at least for now. But even at that scale, it's become a learning experience. The project is a page template for the Movable Type blogging platform, one which lets you crosspost recent entries to a LiveJournal account as well. I came up with it because the crossposting plugins I'd seen for Movable Type all seemed rather top-heavy, and I wanted to come up with something on my own that would let me learn about how to create such things -- and learn a little about the mechanisms involved. (Figuring out LiveJournal's posting protocol alone cost me more time than putting together the guts of the template itself.)

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