Archive for May, 2006

Daniel Ong is Blogging

Posted by scotty on May 19th, 2006 in New Blog

Daniel Ong from Pelita is now blogging at FOCUSer.net.

Dany’s Code

He signed up on Tuesday and already have two posts.

Also note that for those who have requested a blog here, which I have subsequently created, but then it has never been used, i.e. not a single entry created — I will be removing those to reclaim the resources.

Aggregator now supports 中文 (and other UTF-8 characters)

Posted by scotty on May 12th, 2006 in Announcement

Fixed a problem with MySQL upgrade this week which killed all the UTF-8 text. Sorry for those who blogged in 中文 over the few days which all shown up as ???? question marks on the recent update aggregator.

Gravatar and Summary in Aggregator

Posted by scotty on May 11th, 2006 in Announcement

I have just modified the FOCUSer recent update aggregator to show avator and summary next to each entry on the page (also reduce the number of entries to 25).

If you would like to have an avatar displayed next to your entry (instead of a big question mark), here is what you need to do:

  1. Register to the service Gravatar, the Globally Recognized Avatar with your existing email address. Upload a picture of yours.
  2. Tell me the email address you use so I can put that into database next to your blog.
  3. When the Gravatar people have finally approved your avatar, it will be shown against your entries!

If you already have a gravatar account, then skip step 1. There are other benefits signing up Gravatar like having your avatar displayed next to your comments on many gravatar powered blog sites (like this one :).