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Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards - Press Release

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The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit http://www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects.

WordPress won the 2009 Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award in what was a very close contest with MODx and SilverStripe. While MODx was the first runner up, SilverStripe, a Most Promising CMS Award winner in 2008, made its way to the second runner up position in its first year in the Open Source CMS Award final.

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Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

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Today, I got an email from Geeta at Packt Publishing asking me to review the book Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips.

I'll try to finish the book over the next two weeks, but what interests me really is that I haven't got my hands dirty with Python 3 yet, let alone the neat new bits. "Harness the power of Python 3 objects" is what the book promises, really looking forward for this :-)

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