The Wineries of Master Chef’s Joe Bastianich

June 30, 2011

Kim and I are catching up on back episodes of Master Chef. One of the judges, Joe Bastianich, remarks in the opening about his 24 restaurants and 3 Italian wineries. I decided to try to figure out what and where those wineries were and if any of the wine is available online. The Wineries The [...]

Great Wines at BacchusSelections.com

June 29, 2011

I wanted to give an update on Bacchus Selections, which is offering some great wines right now… at crazy low prices. Chateau Moulinet-Lasserre Pomerol 2003 Credit: Bacchus Selections Region: Pomerol, France Winery: Chateau Moulinet-Lasserre Type: Red Wine Variety: Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec Find Prices at SuperWineSearch 2 Loggers 2 Comments 1 Tag First up is the 2003 [...]

Rewards for Logging Wines. Friends of Rutherford Hill.

June 23, 2011

How do you like the sexy badges awarded on the site when you log wines? Did you know that they aren’t just eye candy? Many of the badges come with rewards. Many badges will reward you with free shipping at the winery website or 10-30% off your order. Others will link to downloadable ringtones or [...]

WordCamp Columbus Slides: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins

June 19, 2011

Here are the slides from my talk: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins (ppt). And FYI, slides from my similar talk at WordCamp Philly (pretty similar, but more stuff on GPL in the beginning) What You Need to Know About the GPL, Download: ppt, pptx  

I’m Speaking at WordCamp Columbus, June 18th at 11:30am

June 15, 2011

I’m excited to say that I’ve been accepted as a speaker at WordCamp Columbus this coming Saturday. I was a last minute addition… so thanks to the WCC folks for working that out. (Shout out to Angie Meeker: @angiemeeker / blog) My talk is on “Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins”, which is a [...]

VinPass Has Launched

June 3, 2011

If you use this site at all, you’ve noticed the VinPass badges that are awarded to you when you rate or log certain wines. This feature has been in beta for a few months now, but is finally officially “launched”. To view all the VinPass badges in play at WineLog, visit the badges page. VinPass [...]

Fix for WP Page Tree Plugin in WP 3+

June 3, 2011

The WP Page Tree plugin is a nice plugin. It shows a tree view of pages in your WP site… but it’s been broken since about version 3 or so. I’m sure there are other tree view plugins that work well, but I liked that one. And it is actually an easy fix to get [...]

Disable the WordPress Admin Bar for Non-Admins Only

June 3, 2011

Here is a variation of some code I found on Yoast.com to disable the WP admin bar for non-admins only. function yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings() { ?> <style type="text/css"> .show-admin-bar { display: none; } </style> <?php } function yoast_disable_admin_bar() { if(!current_user_can(’administrator’)) { add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ ); add_action( ‘admin_print_scripts-profile.php’, ‘yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings’ ); } } add_action(’init’, ‘yoast_disable_admin_bar’, 9); Just copy and [...]

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