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Windows 2012/11/27 11 min read

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.

WordPress 2008/11/16 2 min read

Automating TortoiseSVN on Windows to Update Multiple Repositories

Working with SVN on Windows is pretty much synonym to using TortoiseSVN I guess. If you are running a trunk version of WordPress, maintaining plugins or doing anything else collaboratively, chances are you're using this nice piece of software. When you log to you computer to get some coding work done, what is your first task? If "I manually update…

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 :)

2008/02/01 23h52 #

Software 2007/06/21 1 min read

Text Editors for Coders : Deathmatch Review

I have been using UltraEdit as my primary text editor over the last few years. I thought it had all the features I could expect from a text editor : tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for a number of languages, code block collapsing, regular expressions for searching and replacing, opening and closing brace matching, you name it. Then, recently, I got…

Code 2007/05/22 2 min read

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 :)

2006/05/26 20h58 #

Code 2006/04/14 2 min read

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,…

My Life 2005/11/30 2 min read

Now Using GreatNews to Read Feeds

I'm dropping Feed Demon and start using GreatNews

Software 2005/09/19 1 min read

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…

Software 2005/06/07 1 min read

Windows as a Recovery Tool for Linux

Lost my Linux data. Got them back with Windows.