Remove a locked widget from blogger layout panel

Using non official Blogger XML template could be happen very frequently you have some widget locked in the layout panel. Usually a widget can be moved in all the template available positions or removed definitively. A locked widget doesn't allow any of these actions. It is in a fixed position ad you can not remove it. However there is an easy way for switch the widget from locked to unlocked. Let's go to see how is possible.

Sliding Image Links 1.4 for Joomla 2.5 released

Released the version of this extension compatible with Joomla 2.5. As for other versions all the new features will be added starting from this release and the "old" version compatible with Joomla 1.5/1.7 will be no more supported at all.

There are no significant changes. Only few modifies for  adapt to the new Joomla 2.5 standards.

Remove a corrupted widget from blogger layout panel

Trying to load a new XML template for your blog could happen quite frequently that some widget you already have included or present in the template you just loaded become damaged with the result you can not remove it anymore. The practical effect of this damage is a blank page inside the window opened by click over the "edit" link of the widget itself. Blank page mean that no buttons are showed than is not possible to click over the "Remove" button for remove the current widget. Looking around I found a small trick that can help to get out of this unfortunate situation.

My RSS Reader 0.9 for Joomla 2.5 released

Released the version of this extension compatible with Joomla 2.5. As for other versions all the new features will be added starting from this release and the "old" version compatible with Joomla 1.5/1.7 will be no more supported at all.

 

This version just released include also the News Scrolling Module working in Joomla 2.5. An additional settings option was added for remove the "Powered by" link showed in the bottom of component page. However, if you decide to remove this link, it should be fair to donate for the component.

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Subversion commit and ignored files

Just a quick note for provide a solution to a problem that, sometimes, can happen during a subversion commit operation. Subversion, frequently abbreviated as SVN, is a software versioning and revision control system distributed under an open source license. I will not explain here how to use subversion since if you know them you surely already know how to use it. On the contrary, if you don't know it probably you don't need them. Anyway if you make a commit operation of a large number of files containing also binary file like precompiled libraries and so on keep attention since is possible (especially under Linux) that some type of file are automatically included in a special list of ignored files. This mean these files ignored by subversion will not be added to the commit without give you any advise of that.

Create a password protected zip file using zlib and ZipEngine

If you want to create a zip file from your C/C++ application the first solution you can consider is to use the famous zlib library. This library is open source, permissive license and can be compiled in different operating systems. It allow to easily manage a zip file but, currently, doesn't have the feature for create zip file password protected. To fill this lack another developer created a small wrapper over zlib allowing to bypass this problem. Let's go to see how to use both these product.

SVN Backup Tool

This simply tool allow to make a dump backup of a subversion repository. The software work in the same way of the "svnadmin" but is not a GUI frontend over it. Instead  use directly the subversion libraries for allow to create dump in standalone mode without any other additional tool.