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Sorry for the month-long downtime, but I'm happy to report that this site is now being hosted by kamatsu, who is also taking over from rjt hosting the Sphere forums and the Sphere wiki.

The preferred domain of this site is now just tung.spheredev.org, though old links should still work.

My current project is Quipkit (project page and forum thread), an RPG kit for programmers seeking a simple game engine and a flexible editor. It's still in the drawing board phase.

Another 1 hour upgrade for Drupal. More voodoo rain dances required, but this time, the core Update Status checker module doesn't work: enabling it causes all admin pages to blank out.

It's just as well, because I've done most of my updating elsewhere.

@tungtn is where I post interesting articles that I find on Hacker News, and the occasional thought.

I talk with people on Google Buzz. If you've got Gmail, check it out, and feel free to follow.

I think that's about it.

Against all common sense, I've added some more niceties to the site. Here's the low-down:

Shoutbox: See that box on the right? Type stuff in, and it'll show up right away.

Pingback: Got a blog that's got Pingback support? Well, now I do too! You can now post blog entries about my blog entries, and vice versa. When you do that, readers will see a link to your blog response, and can follow it if they want.

Diff for revisions: Revisions were pretty blah in Drupal, until I installed graphical diffs. Now it's possible to see what's changed in pages that have revisions.

Read more hack: The default location for the "read more" link in Drupal is very easy to miss. I've changed it so that it's inline with where the rest of the text would go, so you see it automatically. Awesome.

This spurt of new features is my fault, for going through the project usage stats over at the Drupal website.

Gravatar support has been added to this site. Short for Globally Recognised AVATAR, it lets you use the same avatar in lots of different places. You'll notice it in the form of my avatar next to posts, and your's next to your comments. Just head over to their site, sign up, upload your avatar, and you're set.

I don't know what happens if you have a Gravatar, but don't have an account here. Maybe it still shows yours anyway?

ATTENTION: If you have an account with one of these sites, you can sign up at my site (and in fact any Drupal site) without a username or password:

AOL

openid.aol.com/screenname

Blogger

blogname.blogspot.com

Flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/username

LiveDoor

profile.livedoor.com/username

LiveJournal

username.livejournal.com

Orange (France Telecom)

http://openid.orange.fr/

SmugMug

username.smugmug.com

Technorati

technorati.com/people/technorati/username

Vox

member.vox.com

Yahoo

yahoo.com

WordPress.com

username.wordpress.com

That's from the official list, so check that for the most recent info. There's also another very important one that ain't there:

Google

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

If you have an account at one of these places, you've got an OpenID.

What does that mean for me?

I just upgraded the site from Drupal 6.3 to 6.9.

Wow.

I'm so exhausted. It took me a couple of hours. What happened was that I discovered that I'd mixed the custom modules with the core modules, so not only did I have to go through the Indian rain-dance, I had to re-upload the GeSHi syntax highlighter via FTP (God, that was slow, thanks shitty ISP upload cap!) plus all of my modules.

Not fun.

I changed the colour scheme because I was getting tired of tan brown, proving to myself that I don't have any design sense. Ugh.

Okay, I haven't updated this thing for a while. What gives? I've been avoiding this because I don't like to be reminded of the fact that I need to upgrade Drupal (game on, hackers). I guess it doesn't help that upgrading Drupal is a simple matter of...

Looks like I found the perfect way to get those project pages to show the correct breadcrumbs.

Before, each project page was listed under the Projects section, but when you clicked on those pages, there was no breadcrumb trail leading back to that section. Some Googling I did didn't seem to shed any light onto it.

And then I stumbled across the Custom Breadcrumbs module.

Well, it took a while, but I just ported all the stuff from my old website onto this one. Now I never have to to look at that eyesore of a design again. Hooray!

On a separate note, there's meant to be an articles section on this site, but I haven't written or ported any yet, so it's not there yet. I'll get around to it once I write one.

I just implemented a tag list for the site, just like at the old Blogger site.

Trying to do this using views was a massive pain and wholly unsuccessful, so I turned directly to my best skill: programming. Blocks in Drupal allow insertion of PHP.

But it wasn't working. Anything I inserted would appear as code directly on the page. Then I realised I had to enable the PHP input filter module. Ugh.

Anyway, with a hint from Google, and peeking into the database schema myself, I was able to drum up this little baby.