I’m going to briefly go over some code that will allow you to place a login field any where on your drupal website.

First we have to write the condition that tells drupal to check and see if the user is logged in.

<?php global $user; ?>
<?php if ($user->uid) : ?>
(place code here to let the user know that they are logged in)
<?php else : ?>

Now you’ll notice there is an open “else” that we have to fill. Well after else you can put:

<form action=”/user” method=”post” id=”user-login-form2″>
<span style=”font-size:11px; line-height:10px; height: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; text-align:left;”> Username: </span>
<input style=”font-size : 11px;” type=”text” maxlength=”60″ name=”name” id=”edit-name” size=”15″ value=”" tabindex=”1″ class=”form-text required” />
<br>
<span style=”font-size:11px; line-height:10px; height: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;”> Password: </span>
<input style=”font-size : 11px;” type=”password” name=”pass” id=”edit-pass” size=”15″ tabindex=”2″ class=”form-text required” />
<br>
<input type=”submit” name=”op” id=”edit-submit” value=”Log in” tabindex=”3″ class=”form-submit” />
<br>
<a href=”/drupal/?q=user/register” title=”Create account”>Create account </a>|
<a href=”/drupal/?q=user/password” title=”Retrieve lost password”> Forgot Pass?</a>
<input type=”hidden” name=”form_id” id=”edit-user-login” value=”user_login” />

</form>
<?php endif; ?>

Now you can remove or modify the inline styles that I have in there. I had them there when I was playing around with the font size and spacing on thr4shmetal.com. There’s not much else to know. I tested this on drupal 5.x and 6.x Enjoy.

Using flash someone developed an engine that will allow you to play these games right in your browser. Interesting stuff! Good time killers when your at lunch.

Play Game.

Some of my favorite fail blog videos:

Even now I find myself laughing. Enjoy!

Episode 1:

To date dave has made 7 episodes. They can be seen on his website: Proatcooking.com

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

As of now there are only 9 episodes. But they are developing a 10th Two part episode coming this may.

One of my favorite Episodes

He may come off as immature, but it fits in perfectly to someone who spent there childhood being disappointed over and over by terrible games.

Another great episode

You can find more by AVGN on youtube, screwattack, or you can check out his wordpress site, where he has all his videos posted. http://www.cinemassacre.com/

This video is in japanese, however the game is in english as well.

It all starts with some basic character creation which allows you to make a group leader. Traditional 3d anime style character looks - male/female - sword, spear, bow, guitar, gun, cannon, staff, chainsaw blade. The weapon represents your class and each class has different abilities.

Your then thrust into this intro / tutorial where you get an addtional 3 members for your team. Swords, Spears, bows, guns. These members are similar to your main, but much less effect. Sub members can be upgraded to a new class/skin every 20 levels or so.

As your main lvls up and tears through quests, you will be able to more and different characters to your team. Some are big and scarey, some are small and like healing everybody in their free time. This makes for diverse groups using different strategies. For example I might create a cannon character and get 3 swords to block the front row. My strategy would be to cannon the groups on monsters with my main, and directly assault there front like with my sword chars.

This is an MMO so there is a party system, market place for trading, guilds and mounts. Partying is actually really beneficial because you get a ton of bonus exp when in larger groups. Party battles will allow you and other party members all line up on one side of the battle field. You can actively group attack the enemy on your turn. Very exciting visual, even for a turn based. But be careful, monsters can also be in parties, which means, if you fight them without a party it will be more than one groups of enemies versus only your group.

this video shows a party fighting a party of monsters

There are also matches and PVPs between players. Overall this game is a new/old approach to MMORPGs and I believe it’s balanced just right and will would be a great addition to any gamers collection. Atlantica Online

When you view the project details of any project I have who worked on the project, what I learned, and a little blurb about the company. This is something that I’ve been meaning to do, I finally had a free day to do it.

Click on portfolio at the top of my website. Tell me what you think!

I had a similar experience recently. A client of my former employer insisted on using Verizon web hosting against my advice and ended up with a ton of problems. The Verison control panel is a piece of garbage with a ton of limitations. So I do what I always do when hosts have crappy cpanels. I connect directly. Of course they have limits on permissions that block any external IP address. So i called up there tech support to get my IP white listed.

The brillant staff over at verizon tried to convince me that the reason why I couldn’t connect to the mysql server was my screen resolution was too small. And when I suggested that there might be another reason why I can’t connect to there servers the tech support agent flipped out on me. I asked to speak to a manager, hoping to get someone who knew something about hosting.

The problem still isn’t solved, I recommend to stay away from Verizon for all there services besides mobile phones. There support sucks for that too however.