Movable Type Knowledge Base: Creators of Movable Type

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Who makes Movable Type?

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Movable Type is created by Six Apart. The system was originally developed by the husband and wife co-founders of Six Apart, Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott.

Benjamin Trott is co-founder and CTO of Six Apart. Ben developed all of the backend code for Movable Type and TypePad, contributes regularly to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com and contributed to “Essential Blogging�?, along with posts to the Six Apart company weblog.

Mena Grabowski Trott is co-founder and President of Six Apart. In addition to her role leading the management and business efforts of Six Apart, Mena enjoys working on making the products aesthetically pleasing as well as functionally intuitive. When she’s not developing Movable Type, she writes for her own weblog, dollarshort.org, contributed to “Essential Blogging�?, and publishes posts regularly on the Six Apart website at Mena's Corner.

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