Efficient Git Setup on Windows

I think I've set up a pretty efficient Git environment on Windows and, as promised in a previous post about my Git initiatic journey, I'm sharing it, hoping it'll be useful to someone. Another quite lengthy post I'm afraid, feel free to grab a cup of something before you start reading.

PuTTy Connection Manager: PuTTy with tabs. This is awesomely awesome. If I had to chose one feature a software was missing since mankind and software exist, I would have pointed this one. Now I can die happy :)

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One-Click CSS Tidy Cleaning

I've been using CSSTidy lately, and I like it a lot. This is a pretty cool software that optimizes CSS files so that they are smaller and cleaner. It comes with a bunch of options and is available in Linux, OSX and Windows flavors. I'm running Windows on my test computer, and I made a convenient right click context menu…

Heh, funny. I made a feature request for Filezilla (an FTP client) on 2003-11-29 at 13:26, and I've had a mail today telling that it's finally been implemented in latest release (2.2.24) I guess you never wait too much :)

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Profiling PHP Scripts with Xdebug

I've started to play a bit with Xdebug, a PHP extension that's designed to provide profiling information for PHP scripts and script execution analysis, amongst other things. This is fun, this is interesting, and this is invaluable when you really want to optimize the last bits of a script or a function. My test install is running XAMPP on Windows,…

Troll of the Month

From an interview of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, by Business Week : "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web." Muahahaaha. Wait a minute, just to be sure : define:troll. Hmmkey, that's what I thought. Won the desktop, for sure. In…