Chong’s Sandbox

I was searching for a simple WordPress gallery plugin but the problem was that there were so many of them. I played some of them but I couldn’t find that meets my purpose. Instead of testing all of them, I created yet another plugin. My objective was:

1. It should be as easy as writing an article.
2. It should work with or without JS support.
3. It can be embedded into an article or a page.

This plugin fulfilled my purpose so far. Some examples are here. If you are interested, you can download it here. Continue Reading »

1. Mysterious padding

<div style="background-color:blue;">

    <img src="some_url/a.gif" alt="Header" />

</div>

See the output results above, it creates blue padding at the bottom of the image in IE. To fix the issue, you have to rewrite the code without a line break (mean a single line of code) or even simply add <br /> tag immediately after the <img> tag. Continue Reading »

I have had a nice surprise from my 3 year-old son. He just turned 3 last month and people say he talks pretty well for his age. The other day he kept misbehaving despite my gentle warnings. I said finally, “I’m gonna have to spank your butt!” I was expecting that he calms down a bit. He hates being spanked on his butt very much. Who wouldn’t?

Instead of being intimidated by my waring, my son talked to me back in a loving tone. Continue Reading »

Here is my boys new toy, trampoline. When we first put them on the trampoline, they looked like a clown trying to keep his balance on a rope. But it didn’t take too long for them to find a way to have fun on it. It is their blessing time every evening.

Have you had a day that your brain is half way asleep? I certainly had one. Actually I had 2 in a row. Monday is typically a slow day. It is as if I just walked out of a refrigerator and went to work. You get the idea. Although my brain was in the hibernation mode, my tummy was not. On the way home, I pulled up at Schloztky’s drive-thru. My wife was telling me what she wanted while I was looking at the menu. I was placing my order with my tongue that is controlled by, so called, the Monday brain. Continue Reading »

After a long waiting in (so called) iPhone line, my wife finally got her baby, iPhone. She has been very excited about this pricey phone like a kid on a Christmas Eve . I was very happy for her that she still has such a big excitement for something since I don’t get very excited about virtually anything.

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My company used to download the Apache log file daily, parse it and then put it into the database. A script did this but as we added more servers, it became hard to maintain. I ran across Apache piped logs and found a way to store the log directly into DB. Continue Reading »