The folks over at Automattic, who are also some of the brains behind the WordPress blogging system, have developed Widgets for WordPress. Widgets are a way for users to easily customize their blog’s look and feel without dropping into HTML or PHP. WpLicense 0.7.0 has been released, and includes support for rendering your selected license…

When you select a license using the Creative Commons license engine, we return a block of HTML you can place on your web page to mark that you’ve licensed your content. Included in that block of HTML is embedded metadata that programs can detect in order to determine which license you have selected. We’ve had…

I’m heading to Portland, Oregon for O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) tomorrow. I’ll be presenting an updated and expanded version of my PyCon talk on Building Extensible Desktop Applications with Zope 3. The more I work with it, the more I realize that a better title would be Loosely Coupled, Component Based Development with…

WpLicense, a plugin for the WordPress blogging system, has moved to the Creative Commons wiki. WpLicense allows you to select a Creative Commons license for your WordPress blog. Coinciding with the move an updated version, 0.6.0, is now available. This release adds support for including license information in your RSS2 and Atom feeds, so check…

Working for Creative Commons has been a great experience with one exception: the telecommuting. I’ve realized over the past two years it’s just not for me. It’s not so much the distance as it is being by myself all the time; I prefer to be around people when I’m working. So when my former employer,…