Don’t get me wrong – I’m glad I’m driving a Prius. When I bought it in 2007, I was aware of the fact that the production process of a Prius is not exactly ‘green’. Wired magazine ran a story that suggested buying a used car instead, which I considered doing. Here is the problem though – how do we move technology forward towards a gasoline free automotive world? If we continue to deal with the devil we...

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...

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...

This year, I finally had the time to visit Oreilly’s Maker Faire in San Mateo. What a treat! There is hope for us all yet. Some of my favorites included the following self-correcting robot: more to come (I’m about to get on a plane)...

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...