Monthly Archives: May 2010

Displaying Joomla Module Names in the Web Page

During the development of a web site with many pages and sometimes different templates per page, you’ll see what is obviously a module in the Joomla page, and want to change something in it.  The only problem is your not … Continue reading

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Installing and Using P4Merge in Git for Windows

Invariably when working on files, you’ll edit a file, and wonder how it differs from what you’ve previously committed, or staged to commit with a “git add.” You can discover these differences with the “git diff” command. “git diff” shows … Continue reading

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Perforce’s P4Merge File Comparison Editor – a Review

When I was searching for a good file comparison editor to use with Git, I was shocked to find 46 different editors available. Which one do you use? To separate these 46 editors I came up with a list of … Continue reading

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The Elastic CSS Framework – a Review

CSS Frameworks help by reducing the amount of work you need to set up an initial site when integrating CSS and XHTML to form a nice looking web page that is compatible across all browsers.  It seems like with every … Continue reading

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Ignoring Files in Git

Sometimes you want to not include files in a repository, files like help files, object files, and temporary files, for example. It’s good to ignore non-source files, because it reduces the number of files you track, and even though Git … Continue reading

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