Impian gw sejak kecil yaitu… membuat game!!! (Yah, setidaknya sejak gw mengenal bahwa ada benda di dunia ini yang namanya game.) Dari dulu sebenarnya gw udah berkali-kali mencoba membuat yang bagus dengan teman-teman (kalau game kecil-kecil sih udah pernah, cuma ga pernah dipoles biar cantik >.<). Tapi sayangnya proyek bersama itu selalu gagal, entah karena gwnya males, anggota tim males, gak ada target yang jelas, kurang koordinasi, kurang waktu luang... pokoknya banyak. Biasanya proyeknya dimulai, terus ada rentetan ulangan di sekolah sehingga pembuatan game vakum, lalu vakumnya keterusan sampai selama-lamanya... >.<

Tapi sekarang gw dan banyak teman-teman gw udah banyak berkembang (halah…), sudah bisa lebih baik me-manage waktu, sudah punya banyak kemampuan-kemampuan ajaib yang didapat di universitas, dan sudah (sedikit?) lebih profesional. Jadi ayo kita buat game lagi!

Lalu, untuk menghindari kesalahan-kesalahan yang sudah ada, gw mau menjabarkan beberapa hal dulu yangrasanya cukup penting untuk kelangsungan sebuah proyek part-time membuat game. Read more »

I found the file of an old work of mine – creating a descriptive paragraph – in my computer. My teacher then said that this was a quality writing (he even asked me for a copy) so I thought it would be great to publish this description about mathematics.

The question is: Describe professionally the value of learning a particular field of study. I didn’t get any idea for subjects other than mathematics, so here is what I wrote: Read more »

I looked at my blog statistics and I saw that about 50 visitors came from a Weblog Tools Collection page looking for an ancient WordPress plugin named DBook. That is just for one month. Like I said a looong time ago,

Dbook is a WordPress plugin to show Drupal-like page navigation on your static pages. It can also create hierarchies of ordinary posts, and link between them. DBook is meant to imitate the functionality of Drupal book module.

But the problem is that the WordPress blog is gone (not that it ever really exists for a long time), and the plugin is, I think, gone too from my computer. Anybody having this plugin is welcome to upload the plugin somewhere and put a link here.

I also feared that as the code is a bit old, it is not compatible with the current WordPress version. Because currently I have little interest in developing plugins for WordPress, anybody can take the code and develop / maintain it (an overkill statement as the code is in GPL).

UPDATE: project now hosted in drupal.org. Thanks Andreas and Dennys!

Good news for bloggers using Drupal: pingback module is here, at last. It is a pingback user agent as specified in Pingback 1.0. I have tested the module in my offline server, but I need real-world tests, so I installed the module in my own site.

Download the pingback module (the files have DOS newlines).

Pingbacks generated by this modules closely resemble the ones that WordPress generate. In fact, I “stole” the code for receiving pingbacks from WordPress. Since WordPress and the module is in GPL it is not really a problem. Read more »

OpenOffice.org has become more and more suited for replacing Microsoft Office. Sadly, porting lots of Microsoft Office documents to OpenOffice format (aka OpenDocument Format) is not easy. If you have only one, five, or ten files you could just open them one by one and resave in OpenOffice.org, but how about hundreds or thousands of multi-megabyte documents in a corporate environment?

This little program batch / mass convert Microsoft Office documents (*.doc, *.xls, and .ppt) to their OpenOffice equivalent (.odt, *.ods, and *.odp (aka OpenDocument Format)). The nice thing about this script is that it converts all documents specified in the input, including subdirectories. The result can be put in another directory, and it retains its original directory structure (the script takes care of keeping the relative path). Use it at your own risk! Read more »

Proyek gw sekarang membuat programming contest environment (kayaknya sih namanya itu) – aplikasi yang digunakan untuk lomba-lomba pemrograman seperti ACM, IOI dll. Sebenarnya sudah ada sih aplikasi yang sudah jadi (dan open source) yaitu Mooshak.

Tetapi sayangnya, karena gw nggak punya server sendiri (yang bisa benar-benar diutak-atik sendiri dan install apa saja semaunya), program-program yang disubmit harus dijalanin di komputer lain (bukan di server). Nah, membuat fitur itu yang sulit (gak ada di Mooshak). Selain itu Mooshak juga butuh TCL dan shell access untuk jalan. Sekaligus harus buat client yang bertugas untuk koneksi ke server, compile, dan mengirim hasilnya. Belum lagi masalah security (gak mungkin kan siapa saja boleh grading, nanti testcasenya bisa bocor dong?) Read more »

The last version of PHP seems to break the current Textile module for Drupal. I also experienced the bug – OLs and LIs suddenly doesn’t work as expected, and later I also discovered that one of my page also suffer from the blank page bug . Dreamhost issue (also this one which is basically the same) and the bug I experienced, apparently have the same root of evil: the core Textile module.

I don’t really think that TextilePHP, the code base this module is using is maintained anymore. Instead, the Textile implementation of Treshold State seems to be much better (if it is maintained at all). I tweaked around a bit to integrate it to textile.module (throwing out the original TextilePHP), tested it, and boom – bugs went nowhere! Hooray! Read more »