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Comment Notification Added

Waco — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:01 +0000

I had added comment notification feature to this site so that you will receive an email whenever someone add a comment to the post you subscribe.

To receive emails, check on “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”. To unsubscribe later on, return to the post you subscribed, then click on “Manage your subscriptions”. Easy huh~

Chinese Lunar Calendar Added

Search feature available in gallery

Waco — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:53 +0000

Visitors frequently visited my site may notice that I have a photo gallery other than this blog. Some nice photos are dumped there before writing blogs, and I usually include links to those images in gallery.

Recently the blog update is slow as I spent some days to add in a “Search” feature in my gallery. By typing in any keyword, you can easily allocate photos you are looking for instead of browse through whole category. “Title”, “Description”, and “Custom Field” will be searched.

(Joomla) “Undefined variable: gd_support” in Simple Image Gallery? Try this.

Introducing “Food Preview” Category

Waco — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:35:10 +0000

I had added a new category called “Food Preview“. This category basically discuss on first impression on restaurants I visited, and still need more information to come out with a review. To be fair, usually I will pay the same restaurant a few more visits before concluding it.

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(Joomla) “Undefined variable at line 157″ on Simple Image Rotator

Waco — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:13:12 +0000

Today I experienced a weird error when using “Simple Image Rotator” free edition out from the box. It appears and disappears in fast behind randomly displayed images:

It appears it has something to do with “line 157″. To solve the problem, open “mod_jw_sir.php” and on top of the page, such as after “$bannerfolder = $params->get(‘bannerfolder’,'images/banners/’);“, add

$img_dimensions = “”;

Reload the page and the error should disappear.

Another new thing learned.

(Joomla) “Undefined variable: gd_support” in Simple Image Gallery? Try this.

(Joomla) “Undefined variable: gd_support” in Simple Image Gallery? Try this.

Waco — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:05:27 +0000

Joomla is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. I just installed Joomla 1.5.6. If you are trying to install the famous Joomla plugin called “Simple Image Gallery” and receive the following message when viewing your gallery:

Notice: Undefined variable: gd_support in /…/…/plugins/content/jwsig.php on line 83

Solution:

At line 75 of jwsig.php just change the

if(function_exists("gd_info")) {

if(!function_exists("gd_info")) {

Reference

Wordpress plugin missing from Inactive Plugins section? Try this.

Waco — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:05:08 +0000

You found a nice Wordpress plugin from Internet, copied and extracted it to “Plugin” folder in Linux server, only found out that the plugin is actually missing from “Inactive Plugins” section of “Plugins” page. The plugin can be seen in Windows server.

I have the same problem with WP-Lytebox. It appears that it is due to file permission issue. chmod all files inside the plugin folder to 777 may solve the issue.

HAL.DLL is missing?

More stylish and user friendly image viewer

Waco — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:04:53 +0000

It had been a busy week for me in work. However, I still able to spend some time in updating my website.

Now, when you click on a thumbnail on the post, a semi-transparent layer will appear on top of the page to show the bigger version of the image.

To close the view, you can simply click on dark area around the image. If there are more than one image on a post, you can move your cursor to left/right end of the image and “PREV” or “NEXT” will be shown.

Cool huh~ It is a tedius process for me as I have to update all existing links in the posts. Luckily I am able to come out with a script to do so. With this, hopefully it will improve reader’s experience in viewing nice photos of mine while at the same time enjoy reading the blog.

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