A long running controversy in the WordPress community was resolved this week when the popular, commercial theme Thesis was re-licensed making it compatible with WordPress’s own GPL license. This re-licensing confirms WordPress themes and plugins must be released under the GPL. This is great news for the WordPress community for it reinforces the type of […]
Month: July 2010
Adding Custom Fields to an Existing Post via XMLRPC in WordPress
If you’re having difficulty adding custom fields to an existing WordPress posts via XMLRPC’s metaWeblog.EditPost command, try including a dummy entry in your code. It worked for me. I’m working on a project where we’re programmatically adding WordPress custom field data to thousands of posts, seemed like a great job for XMLRPC. I had assumed […]
Real Time Red Herring
Over the past few years, I’ve worked on a number of projects exploring the the value of capturing & sharing a fleeting moment in ‘real time’. These projects included; Cullect; which proved to me how infrequently ‘real time’ ever passed into ‘relevant’. RE07.US; which was a URL shortener that self-destructed after 5 minutes iTunes-to-Twitter; where […]
What Does a Successful MN Tech Firm Look Like?
“The region has just a few large tech operations left (Lawson, Digital River, Seagate), and venture capitalists say most local software startups are tiny and will never grow into market leaders or large companies.” – Dan Haugen. Most businesses, local or otherwise, are tiny and will never grow to market leaders or large companies. Minneapolis’ […]