Topic: Development

Joomla 3.1: Migrating from K2 to Native Tags

Joomla 3.x – What’s the big deal? Joomla 3.x is a radical departure from the 2.5 series, but 3.1 brings native tagging functionality, something previously only possible with extensions or solutions such as creative usage of metadata in the database. One tempting implication is to question the usefulness of the powerful, well-known Joomla component, K2. Arguably a valuable part of Joomla, bringing modern features […]

Authenticated downloads from private github repositories

Update 2014-08-16: The method described below no longer works. For historical reasons, I will be leaving the post as-is; for an updated how-to on the subject, please refer to this StackOverflow answer. Let’s face it. Some of the biggest projects on the internet are flocking to github. But what if you have a top-secret project using a private repo, and you want to programmatically […]