Pawan Blog

Wishing all Indian friends here and everyone back in India a very happy independence day.

Feeling patriotic today and was fully charged this morning, but they did not turned up. Our caption Rajeev called his colleagues to come our for a friendly cricket match this morning, but later they changed their plan and went to High commission of India for Independence Day celebrations. Almost everyone of our YPL was here and we had enjoyed some very good cricket.

For those who are interested to play cricket can come to ground near Yishun Polyclinic. We are playing every Sunday and start at 7 AM. The ground is almost in middle Khatib and Yishun MRT and walk able from both, it will hardly take 15-20 minutes by walk to reach to ground. Here I am attaching a Google map for better reference.

cricket at Yishun, ground location

Was thinking over this word from quite long, but was busy with album so did not got enough time to collect whatever I have and write, got some time again so putting my thoughts here. Please try to remain awake …

Well as you can find that word “Instinct” can be defined as “Inborn behavior”, means a behavioral pattern hardcoded genetically into DNA’s. Being a Bio student I will definitely agree with it and guess most of us also. Not sure how many of you will agree that we are aggressive or defensive, active or slow, sharp or dull, shy or extrovert, cleaver, intelligent or dumb by birth, but I do. Definitely education plays a very vital role in everyone’s life and most of the times our education system molds us in such a way that we can do well to our society and leave a good life. But our instinct remains with us and keeps on popping up from time to time.

Corporates have a defined culture and those who are in have to follow certain guidelines for their behavior, but still the instinct remains with us helps or hinders in our growth on corporate ladder. In general I will categories corporate employees in 3 broad categories, first are those lives a corporate life 24/7, second who remain on mask from 9-6 and you will find a different person all together in them after office hours and third are those who remain what they are 24/7. The best will be a correct mix of mask and instinct. This is the reason why there are only few keep on growing while other remains on more or less same place through out their career. Nowadays we will hardly find anyone belongs to category three but they still exist and I will say, “God bless them”. To those belong to first category I will say, “Dude! Your kids are too young to understand the complicated language you are using with them”.

The younger generation which is on the way to join the workforce, its important for them to remain calm and keep looking around, explore new things use it and if it is not useful then just move on. Its time of rapid change and quick move, human will soon become a mechanical unit at work; no one is going to tolerate you if your negative instincts keep on popping up.

Finally done with read-up and amendments required for release so uploaded the release and here is location from where you can download MyBIG (My Big Image Gallery)

http://www.ashwina.com/f11/download.php?version=1.0

Fully working demo is present at-

http://www.ashwina.com/f11/demo/MyBIG-1.0/index.html

Feeling great to share the work I have did so far.

Given it a name MyBIG (abbr. My Big Image Gallery) and releasing its first version soon.

Will release it under GNU General Public License. So need to go through it thoroughly before I take any action. There are other complications also, need to work on that.

Meanwhile here is a feature list of application -

1. Cross platform
2. Fast
3. Easily configurable
4. Can run over current folder system
5. Small, its total size is less than 35KB
6. Expandable images, you can re-size your photographs as per your screen size at run time
7. Category enabled
8. Written in HTML, JavaScript and CSS only
9. No browser plug-in needed
10. HTML5 and CSS3 compatible
11. Runs on just one XML feed

Visited Rajeev’s place for a Keertan (or Kirtan – A Player), requested for forgiveness for all sins, forgiveness for sins which I did and never did.

Asked his permission if I can post those photographs and after the permissions posting here.

कीर्तन (Keertan)

As far as development of my big album is concerned I am satisfied with what I have did so far, now work is need more at administrative end than front end. So nothing to update you on that.

Yes of course I have to remove few stupids photographs from there and add some better once. The album is already 1+ years old and during this time I have figured out that those whom I was thinking good are not appealing at all… This is all part of anyone’s learning process and I don’t have any shame in sharing this will you all

Did a little piece of coding at back-end to find width and height of thumbnails and added to xml feed. It was rather easy but this is what i never wanted.

PHP code to find photo dimension

XML Feed attributes

What I was trying to achieve is to find width and height of photos using jQuery and creating <img> attributes at run-time, unfortunately execution of loop was too fast that image tag was getting populated before jQuery can even cache thumbnails and was resulting in width=NaN

Anyways this approach is working. It was working even without creating placeholder earlier, just only some times my right navigation thumbnail arrow was disappearing .

Sorry for those, who find it hard to digest… its little techie this time

Just a quick update before I go to bed, taken out fade-in and fade-out from large photo load. It keeps on stacking up if I navigate quickly.

RSS is fully functional now

You can take a look at

http://www.ashwina.com/f11

That was it for the album and now little about my laptop repair. I already planned that will buy a desktop in a day or two, decided to make a try if I can still revive it, so went to Sim Lim square on Saturday afternoon. The repairer initially quoted me $180 for chip replacement, but when I returned back to collected got news that it was not just mother board but key-board, mouse pad and DVD RW was also spoiled due to water and total cost for repair increases to $350 . Collected and returned back to home around 10 PM.

I am taking this expense of $350 very positively , because I manage to save $1650. The price of the desktop which I have selected is $2000. Feeling little sad that I would have been saved full 2K if my kids were not conducted the test.

My kids conducted a secret test on my laptop yesterday without informing home ministry (wife).

The objective of test was to find out whether the laptop is water resistant or not.

The outcome – my laptop stopped responding after that.

Hence it is proved that “My laptop WAS not water resistant”

Yes its dead now .

Was away for some time from blog, but not away from “My big Album”.

After getting many opinions from you, did some extensive code changes, especially in jQuery part.

Now there is just one xml feed sending data and then jQuery is taking care of rest of thing. (Except comment part)

As accommodating comments also in the same feed was not feasible, so comments will appear by a separate request, but total comment counts will be provided by first xml feed. Submission is another hit to server.

So if we take out comment part this album needs just one xml feed to run (its a hint for those looking for free web album application which runs on just one feed), I won’t mind if you take front-end code from here without even informing me, but the risk is yours .

I hope you all like my approach of enlarging photograph, I have added actual and current sizes of photographs.

Also added an RSS feed, which will show thumbnail and description in feed, links are still non-functional, this is the difficult part.

I have to return back to admin end now, its huge I am putting up everything whatever I thought and needed.

Meanwhile please take a look at

http://www.ashwina.com/f11/index.php

Please use firefox to view this, I haven’t tested in others … sorry

Did some more work on front end again, please have a look …

few comments will be much appreciated

http://www.ashwina.com/f11/index.php