If you are not a client of Carina LLC or do not have a support contract with us but would like to discuss upgrading to Wordpress 3.0, please contact us to learn about your options.

After some (gentle?) chiding by a BuddyPress.org for rating the plugin poorly (because it didn’t work.  duh!), it came to light that the issue is one of username compatibility between WP and BP. So, if you add to your wp-config.php file the following statement it will work as expected:

define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );

It changes the behaviour of BP such that uses the auto-generated username rather than the full name received from Facebook.

What was learned from this?  Well, the issue between myself and the forum moderator was that he wasn’t taking into account that his experience was not relevant because he had already modified his config file.  It’s a common faux pas, when supporting others, to remember to go back to a common base before assuming someone has screwed something up. 

So with that, I heartily recommend the plugin for use with BuddyPress.  It lowers the barrier of creating yet another login for site visitors that would like to join in the community discussions.

Requirements:

.NET/C# or VB including the ability to create and manage controls, master pages and Ajax functionality

Expert in XHTML, CSS and Javascript

JQuery

Ajax experience

Please contact us at jobs@carinallc.com

This is a self-funded project to create a consumer application for sharing information.  Through support of Microsoft’s BizSpark program for startups, we are using SQL Azure and Visual Studio to develop this as a cloud-based service.  We hope to have an alpha release in mid-April, and open to public Beta in May.

Not much information, right?  Well, if you think you may be interested in finding out more through the Beta program, please send an email to info@tiskits.com !

Facebook now allows you to customize the URL that points to your personal page as well as any Fan Page you are an administrator of.  The only requirement for the Fan Page is that you must have at least 50 followers (it started with a 1,000 follower requirement last June).

To get started, go to http://www.facebook.com/username/.  It may initially offer you the chance to customize your personal page URL, if you have not done so already.  Once completed or skipped, the option should appear to select the Fan Page(s) you want to customize.

It’s a great way to make it easier for your organization’s Fan Page to be found.

After high school I began doing more freelance work, and wanted a DBA name to use.  Because of the great experiences I learned in school, I researched other constellations and decided to adopt one myself, settling on Carina, another constellation in the southern hemisphere.  It is also Latin for “keel”, which I also liked because it represents a significant structural element to a vessel.  And that’s what I envisioned: a company that, through technology, provides the structural support our customers need to be successful.

And now, you know

So, stay tuned.