The Creative Commons licene engine has gone through several iterations, the most recent being a Zope 3 / Grok application. This has actually been a great implementation for us1, but since the day it was deployed there’s been a warning in README.txt:
If you get a UnicodeDecodeError from the cc.engine (you’ll see this if it’s
running in [...]
Yesterday was the first ever Creative Commons Technology Summit, hosted at Google. My photos and better ones taken by Joi.
I drove the Nerd Van (myself, Asheesh and the interns) to Google.
I’m still recovering (and inflicting pain—CC board meeting today) and collecting feedback, but I think it was a really successful day. We learned [...]
In an attempt to prevent additional git (or maybe just git-svn?) induced PTSD, Asheesh kindly created a git phrasebook. If you, too, are a Subversion deserter and want to figure out how the whole branching thing works in git, this may be useful to you.
Someday I’ll write up my thoughts on distributed [...]
I really love task lists—especially the crossing off part—but lately they haven’t really been helping me out. Between the day job, consulting work, dating, and a more active social life than I had in Indiana, it seems like I never quite get to the crossing off part. This has become particularly clear at work where [...]
As promised, slides for my OpenWeb talk, Deploying the Semantic Web with ccREL and RDFa, are available. And while we’re talking about the Semantic Web, note that the slide page is using another low barrier Semantic Web tool, Semantic MediaWiki.
