Buddypress allows you to add custom profile data during the member registration process. But how do you display this custom profile data in the member loop? Just to be thorough, let’s start by adding custom profile data to the registration page. On the profile setup page, you can add your additional member data. This additional data is stored in three tables called: bp_xprofile_data bp_xprofile_fields bp_xprofile_groups The next step is...
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Many months ago I upgraded to WP 3.0 Beta 1. Today, I finally decided to upgrade to 3.0.3 and ran smack dab into the strange “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” error. Google yielded various explanations and solutions, probably because this error is rather vague and general. I’m guessing this error has meant different things in different versions (Perhaps the wordpress crew could refactor this error and...
So today I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 3.0 Beta. Normally, I would wait, but the new features and the new default theme (Twenty Ten) intrigued me enough to throw caution to the wind. Key features include: a default theme that lends itself to child theme development a menu system that allows you to mix categories and pages better custom post types a merged WP/WPMU code base, which allows managing a network of sites (multisite)...
Today I had the privilege of attending the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. While the presentations have all been interesting, Tim O’Reilly gave an inspired talk on the future of open source. He then promptly posted his presentation on slideshare. Open Source in the Cloud Computing Era View more presentations from Tim...
As of October 1st of 2008, Nevada businesses must encrypt personal information of a customer for any electronic transmission. A simple, inexpensive solution to meeting this legal mandate is to sign up for Webloq‘s private email (Full Disclosure: I am the VP of Engineering for Webloq). The law defines personal information as first name or first initial plus last name in combination with either a Social Security number, driver’s...
daemon: /day´mn/, /dee´mn/, n. (Source: The Jargon File) [from Maxwell's Demon, later incorrectly retronymed as ‘Disk And Execution MONitor’] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon)....
