LiquidBen News

I just noticed that I haven't updated the frontpage in over a year now. How embarrassing! This isn't a bad thing though, I simply have had a year busy with things that didn't involve generating site content. I got married, moved into a new apartment, got a new job, bought a house, and had a lot of fun too.

I have also been busy coding too. I've taught myself C# and XNA (not to say that I'm not still learning) and I've been trying to bring a project to fruition. It's gone through several stops and starts, but I'm really looking forward to how it turns out. It's entered a really promising phase lately, as I finally grasped some significant points of object-oriented entity management. I won't bore you with details, but hopefully I'll have something respectable enough to post up as an alpha soon. (If I don't play too much GTA)

Thanks for visiting!

If you check out my Firefox page in my portfolio, you'll see some cool new stuff is here. Not only has iCloak has been completely revamped into a much more robust script, but I've also introduced SurfBlinders - a more intelligent way to deal with useful, but distracting websites.

I'll confess: I'm easily distracted by Wikipedia. It's so easy to wind up many pages away from your original interest, and sooooo many minutes lost later. I've been using development versions of Surfblinders for a while now, helping me concentrate to get the necessary work done. It's an extremely useful tool, and I'm glad that I can share it.

-- Ben

Hey there again,

I've posted up a long and in-depth article I've written about how to set up a private MediaWiki installation with the ability to publish articles publicly via the usage of a custom namespace. In plain English, you can get all of the ease of editing that you're accustomed to from Wikipedia with the comfort of knowing that your articles will be completely private until you explicitly publish them.

Curious? Then read it here! Any questions?

-- Ben

Yup, I'm totally guilty of producing the following (with assistance from David Fincher and Tiny Tim)

Hey folks!

Good news, namespace security is now working for LiquidWiki. I've started by moving two articles into the public section: my MediaWiki CSS reference and my Blogger template tag reference.

If you're technically minded, please read and enjoy!

- Ben

I've posted up my iCloak script for the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox.

You can now find my resume available in multiple formats here.