The first version of the Disqus plugin has been released! The Disqus plugin allows you to use comments from the social commenting website Disqus. It embeds javascript to show comments when viewing a particular blog post and shows how many comments a post has when viewing a blog post list. Find out more about what Disqus does here. Read more about the plugin here. Download: disqus_plug[...]

I have wanted a good dictionary application that supports a number of dictionaries/dictionary formats for studying Japanese but I've been sort of frustrated that there is no single application that does what I would like. I have looked mostly at stardict and epwing because they are closest to the type of dictionary I want. Specifically I have the following requirements: 1. It must work in [...]

Kris Zyp (the author of the JSONSchema proposal) mentioned jsonschema on his blog at json.com. Thanks Kris!!

I just released the first version for a project that I've been working on since the Python Onsen. It's a validator for JSON Schema written in Python. It's based on the JSON Schema Proposal Second Draft. The source can be downloaded here: jsonschema-0.1a.tar.gz The source is on Bitbucket JSON Schema's purpose is to allow validation of JSON documents much like XML Schema, DTD. You can use it[...]

I made some changes to the TinyMCE plugin for b2evolution to support some callbacks which will allow other b2evolution plugins to register TinyMCE plugins automatically. This is especially useful for the Gallery2 plugin because it will allow me to add a button that allows users to add photos from Gallery2 to their blog posts to TinyMCE automatically when the Gallery2 plugin is installed. Curr[...]

I took a look at the Gallery2 plugin for wordpress by ozgreg to get some ideas on how they had integrated Gallery2 with the Wordpress blog engine and how I might be able to bring those features to b2evolution. I felt somewhat bad looking at it as I've worked on by own gallery2 integration plugin for b2evolution for about a year and haven't really taken more than a cursory look at the wordpres[...]

Not sure how long ago it was but a guy at ivertech who calls himself Fat Jack wrote an article about b2evolution plugins that help in advanced blogging. In that article he mentions 2 of the plugins I've written, the Gallery2 Plugin and the Lightbox plugin. Though the lightbox plugin will need to be decommissioned and/or rewritten because it depends on prototype and the new versions of b2evolu[...]

Version 1.4 of the Gallery2 Plugin has been released!! The Gallery2 Plugin is a full featured plugin that provides integration between your b2evolution blog and gallery2. It supports single sign on, and adding images to posts using the Gallery2 Image Chooser. This version adds support for gallery2 image block widget that enable you to show a random image, recently viewed image, recently add[...]

Gnucash 2.2.3 was released the other day and contains my first contribution to the project. Albiet, a pretty small and lame patch for a small bugfix, but a patch nonetheless!! I hope to do some more work particularly on the QIF import, eventually making it work with the generic importer, and then expand my contributions to include improvements for multi-currency and reporting.

The next version of the Gallery2 Plugin has been released!! This version fixes a number of problems with different versions of b2evolution . It should work in b2evolution 1.9.2 and newer. It was tested in 1.9.2, 1.13.0, and 2.1.0. This version also fixes a number of path issues with previous versions of the plugin. Paths to your gallery2 installation should be managed correctly now. The [...]