Christopher Davis http://www.christopherguitar.net Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:13:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How to Use the WordPress HTTP API WordPress provides a way for developers to fetch other web pages. It’s called the HTTP API. If you’re using things like file_get_contents or some other PHP functions in your WordPress theme or plugin, you’re doing it wrong. HTTP API Applications You could use the HTTP API to… Interact with other APIs (facebook, twitter, etc) To [...]

How to Use the WordPress HTTP API from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/how-to-use-the-wordpress-http-api/ Excluding Single Posts From Your WordPress Blog Index There are a lot of really nice plugins for excluding entire categories from the hope page. I use simply exclude and it works great. A few extra characters in your query arguments also accomplishes the same thing. Excluding a single post, however, is more difficult. You could use the post__not_in wp query argument, but that’s [...]

Excluding Single Posts From Your WordPress Blog Index from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/excluding-single-posts-from-your-wordpress-blog-index/ Python Script for Checking Links Sometimes there are links to your website that you want to check on every now and again. You could do this manually or you could use a little program to do it for you. I wrote something in Python to do this. It’s probably not at all good (I’m new to python), but here it [...]

Python Script for Checking Links from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/python-script-for-checking-links/ Updating Custom Fields for All WordPress Posts The situation: a client moves to a new theme. Their old wordpress theme used custom fields to create thumbnails. As of WordPress 2.9, support for post thumbnails is built in, but many themes still create nice, pretty custom field write panels in the add/edit post areas. The result is still that thumbnail urls get stored [...]

Updating Custom Fields for All WordPress Posts from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/updating-custom-fields-for-all-wordpress-posts/ Classical Guitar Concert in Quincy, Illinois – April 7, 2011 Playing at Quincy College. Concert starts with the Quincy University Guitar Ensemble at 7:30pm. I’ll follow them. There’s also a masterclass during the afternoon before the concert

Classical Guitar Concert in Quincy, Illinois – April 7, 2011 from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/classical-guitar-concert-in-quincy-illinois-april-7-2011/ Classical Guitar Concert in Macomb, Illinois – April 10, 2011 This is part of the Western Illinois Guitar Festival. I’ll be performing along with Tom Clippert, Brad DeRoche, Guilherme Vincens and Virginia Broffett. Concert starts at 7:30pm in COFAC, Western Illinois University‘s concert hall.

Classical Guitar Concert in Macomb, Illinois – April 10, 2011 from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/concert-hall-western-illinois-university-on-040811/ Classical Music: A Positional Good “Positional goods are products and services whose value is mostly (if not exclusively) a function of their ranking in desirability by others, in comparison to substitutes. The extent to which a good’s value depends on such a ranking is referred to as its positionality.” (source: wikipedia) Let’s talk about what art music really is to [...]

Classical Music: A Positional Good from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/classical-music-a-positional-good/ A Few Fernando Sor Etudes Fernando Sor: Opus 60, Number 5 http://www.christopherguitar.net/audio/sor-number5.mp3 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Fernando Sor: Opus 60, Number 13 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A few quick recordings I did tonight. I’ve been teaching opus 60 a lot these past few months. Great little pieces with a lot of depth and plenty [...]

A Few Fernando Sor Etudes from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/a-few-fernando-sor-etudes/ Photo: Masterclass with Laura Young Laura was in town for the Guitar Fort Worth concert series.

Photo: Masterclass with Laura Young from Christopher Davis

]]> http://www.christopherguitar.net/blog/photo-masterclass-with-laura-young/ Analysis Project: Mouton – “Corde et animo” Many people suggest that analysis is basically accounting for all the notes on the page. That is, fitting those notes into the abstract structures defined by harmony or melodic devices or motivic development. The next step — the one that gets skipped — is figuring out what the composer meant by the stuff on the [...]

Analysis Project: Mouton – “Corde et animo” from Christopher Davis

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