After a bit of search I've found that you can specify the user for external resource by adding it before the domain with a @ so, for me the sintax was:

nextgen-gallery https://simone.fumagalli@nextgen-gallery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Once you set up the SVN property give an update to the working folder and Eclipse will ask for the password.

SVN External with a different username in Eclipse

In many countries (like Italy) weeks start on Monday, so, I needed to change this beahvior. I thought I could change something in the "Settings" panel or in the Config file to achive this but I was wrong !

After a short searching I realized that I wasn't the only one with this problem, and I've also found this solution that works by shifting by one the day returned by wday_from_ts.

At the beginning everything seemed to works fine but I immediately realized that this hack effected also the result of tags connected to a date like <$mt:EntryDate$>. Basically instead of getting Sunday February 1th 2009 I was getting Saturday February 1th 2009, as you can imagine, this is quite a big problem, especially for a blog where date matters.

I started to look for another way to solve the problem and I realized that the only possibility was modify the function that handle the calendar tags.

The Solution

Open /lib/MT/Template/ContextHandlers.pm and modify these 2 lines from

my $pad_start = wday_from_ts($y, $m, 1);
my $pad_end = 6 - wday_from_ts($y, $m, $days_in_month);

to

my $pad_start_tmp = wday_from_ts($y, $m, 1);
my $pad_start = ($pad_start_tmp == 0) ? 6 : $pad_start_tmp - 1;
my $pad_end = wday_from_ts($y, $m, $days_in_month) + 1;

This is a small extension for NextGen Gallery, it allow you to specify which area NGG must use to generate the the thumbnail.

Quite often the thumbnails generated by NGG do not show the "right" part of the picture, this happen especially when you have a gallery with people, where you want to show in the thumb the face and not the belly.

Demo

Have a look here where you can see two galleries (same pictures) the first with the standard and the second with custom thumbnails.

Installation

First unpack the archive to the NGG root directory, then open manage-images.php and modify line 338 from

<img class="thumb" src="<?php echo $picture->thumbURL; ?>" <?php echo $thumbsize ?> />

to

<img class="thumb" id="thumb<?php echo $pid ?>" src="<?php echo $picture->thumbURL; ?>" <?php echo $thumbsize ?> />

and add this line at the end of nggallery.php

include_once (dirname (__FILE__)."/admin/custom_thumbnails.php");

Download

Here the package for the version 0.2 it ONLY works with WP 2.7 and NGG 1.0

Download Version 0.2

Screenshots

List with "Edit thumbnail" action

Popup for area selection

Perego under the snow

I found the plugin "Allow Embedded Videos" (http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos) but still the button in the editor didn't show up.

Download it here

The Chemical Brothers - Italia Wave

Well, the festival still have to "grow" … In Arezzo was something else, but I'm sure next year will already better. We were there mainly for the Chemical Brothers but we also got some other cool artists like Bugo and Sud Sound System.

We also went at the Elettrowave, the electronic side of the festival. The location couldn't be better: an old fortress by the sea !

Fortezza Vecchia - Livorno - Via Flickr thanks to livornoalone

See you next year Livorno !

PS : Someone told me that the tower of the "Fortezza Vecchia" in Livorno is taller than the tower of Pisa. Is it true ?

Marcus Miller - Estivaljazz '08 - Lugano - Picture by Andrea Perotti via Flickr

Yesterday I went up to Chiasso directly after work, there I met Sma and we went together to Lugano to see Marcus Miller playing at Estivaljazz 2008.

Great show, we also managed to sit in front of the stage. The clarinet/saxophone player on the left was my hero, he was moving like a spring while blowing like hell and was the only one who could compete with Miller. Alex Han his name, and 20 his age !

So, if you pass by Lugano the first weekend of July don't forget about the EstivalJazz !

PS: As usual I didn't have any camera with me. I took the picture from Flickr, here the complete gallery » –

• http://wordpress-test1.lan/
• http://phpmyadmin.lan/
• http://project1.lan/

I started to set for each one a vHost in Apache but after a while I've found myself with too many vHost files.

So I started to search for a more easy and fast way, and here it is:

Note: you need to install Apache mod_rewrite to make things work.

Preamble:

1. You have Apache installed, and your DocumentRoot is /var/www/
2. You have mod_rewrite installed and enabled
3. You can modify the /etc/hosts file

Let's say we want to install a test/demo version of Wordpress and access it from the URL http://wp-test.lan/

1. We download and untar Wordpress in /var/www/wp-test/
2. We tell our machine to resolve the domain wp-test.lan with the IP 127.0.0.1. To make this we add a line to our hosts file.hpatoio@namazu:~$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for hpatoio:
root@namazu:~#echo "127.0.0.1 wp-test.lan" >> /etc/hosts
root@namazu:~#exit
hpatoio@namazu:~$
3. Now we have to change Apache config. Open /etc/apache2/sites-anabled/000-default with your favorite editor and add these lines inside the <VirtualHost *> directive:RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.lan$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /%1$1 Basically :
   • The first line turns the mod_rewrite on
   • The second one tells Apache to keep in the host part of the URL (HTTP_HOST) everything that stands before ".lan"
   • Finally the third line insert the string matched before (%1) between the host and the resource part (directory + file + query string) of the requested URL
4. Restart Apache

hpatoio@namazu:~$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now if open your browser and you point it to the URL http://wp-test.lan/ you should see the WP installation page. Right ?

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