The present incarnation of this website was put together using Django, an awesome web framework written in Python. I also used django-tagging, django-pagination, django-command-extensions, django-storages, and a few other goodies.
A few tools were especially helpful: Emacs, Git, virtualenv, pip, etc.---all running on Ubuntu.
The point is, I can't think of a single piece of proprietary software that contributed to the making of this site. I'm very grateful to the creators of these fine pieces of software, and I look forward to trying to pay some of my debt to them forward by producing useful software for others.
I should also say that I benefited a lot from looking over other open source Django projects, including Byteflow, Pinax, and especially Lifeflow.
