preload preload preload preload preload preload preload

register → | login →

Nifty: CraftBukkit Mac Launcher

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Ben with View Comments

Step right up and download the extraordinary, hyperpowerful, stupendous CraftBukkit Mac Launcher!

Continue Reading →

New site!

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Ben with View Comments

Tada! After months of work, I have finally uploaded the completed remodel of Ben.Stolovitz.com. Let me know your thoughts.
Continue Reading →

WordPress 3.0 Havok

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Ben with View Comments

Just a quick update; my site has been flickering because of some permalink issues owing to WordPress 3.0.

What’s worse is that I upgraded my local copy of WordPress 3.0- and accidentally deleted every single file of my theme for this site, so I have to start over. Oh well, I guess its an excuse to build it better.

The smell of a new site is in the air!

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Ben with View Comments

The new Ben.Stolovitz.com is almost done!

Continue Reading →

Digg!

What do you want to see in bsFunctions?

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ben with View Comments

Hey, kids! bsFunctions hosts lots of features (1) but we are looking to program EVEN MORE! What do you want to have implemented in bsFunctions? Comment for new features!

WP_list_taxonomies

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Ben with View Comments

NOTE: Bad error fixed.
Current item used to be defined as tax_item_#current_item instead of tax_item_# current_item.
Bad CSS error; also modified the output from tax_item_# to display current taxonomy name, as well as added a new class with (taxonomy name)_item. Should make it easier to theme.

WordPress is very, very powerful, but there are a few things its lacking. Namely, listing the items of things other than pages & categories in nice little lists.

Now, I could wait until the guys at WordPress came and made a function, or I could program one myself… Which one do you think I did?

BSFunctions 1.1

This may or may not be the beginning of the BS WordPress collection, so download it and see!

To call this function, just type in <?php bs_list_taxonomies(‘taxonomy_name_here’,'extra_args_here’) ?>

Please use this wherever, I want to see my work out!

Modify, modify, modify as well but PLEASE leave the author statement intact, add yourself as a second author if you want.

/**
* @author Ben Stolovitz <ben@stolovitz.com>
*
* @uses wp_parse_args
* @uses get_terms
* @uses get_bloginfo
*
* @param string $taxonomy Required. The taxonomy you want to list.
* @param array $args Optional. Override default arguments.
* @return string Returns an HTML list of items in a taxonomy.
*/
function bs_list_taxonomies($taxonomy, $args=”) {
$defaults = array(
‘title_li’ => ucfirst($taxonomy),
‘echo’ => 1,
‘tack_on’ => 1,
‘no_value’ => ‘None’,
‘no_value_link’ => ”
);
$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
$term = get_terms($taxonomy);
$output = ‘<li> ‘ . $r['title_li'] . ‘ <ul>’;
if ( $r['tack_on'] ) {
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
if ($key != “C” && $key != $taxonomy) {  // We don’t want duplicates of our taxonomy
if ( $querystring ) $querystring .= ‘&’;
$querystring .= $key.”=”.$value;
}
}
}
if ( ! $_GET[$taxonomy] ) {$a = ‘current_item’;} else {$a = ”;}
if ( $querystring ) {
$output .= ‘<li><a title=”‘ . $r['no_value'] . ‘” href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(url) . ‘/?’ . $querystring . ‘”>’;
} else {
$output .= ‘<li><a title=”‘ . $r['no_value'] . ‘” href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(url) . ‘/’ . $r['no_value_link'] . ‘”>’;
}
$output .= $r['no_value'] . ‘</a></li>’;
foreach ($term as $current) {
if ( $_GET[$taxonomy] == $current ) {$a = ‘ current_item’;} else {$a = ”;}
if ( $querystring ) {$b = ‘&’; } else {$b = ”;}
$output .= ‘<li><a title=”‘ . $current->name . ‘” href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(url) . ‘/?’ . $querystring . $b . $current->taxonomy . ‘=’ . $current->slug . ‘”>’;
$output .= $current->name;
$output .= ‘</a></li>’;
}
$output .= ‘</ul></li>’;
// $output=apply_filters( whatever_you_want, $output);
if ( $r['echo'] ) {
echo $output;
} else {
return $output;
}
}

Last Sunlight (on DeviantART)

Posted on by Ben with View Comments

Here‘s a wee little pencil drawing that I made and posted on DeviantART

Delays, Delays, and a Site in a Week

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Ben with View Comments

Ugggh…

I just switched to a new computer, just got a notification that PerfectPonchos is due in a week, and – in short- will not be able to finish Ben.Stolovitz.com for a few weeks….

Ben.Stolovitz.com

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Ben with View Comments

Why is my site in the title? Hmm…
Continue Reading →

Michelle Piano

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Ben with View Comments

Ignoring the annoying hiss and the  slight cutoff of loud noises, its actually a mildly decent recording of Michelle by The Beatles.

It is a study of the rule of distribution for piano (as you know the real song has no piano).

Listen now!

Michelle (Piano ver. of Beatles song _Michelle_)

← Older Posts
Powered by WordPress