Every programmer needs to have a visual file diff application under their belt. I recently did the hard yards to once again review what was available and stumbled upon the perfect solution that was eerily familiar. For some time now I've been pining...
Joomla! 1.5 has many similarities to Joomla! 1.0 in terms of file structure and also many differences. In this article we will go over some of the major differences at a fairly high level. When you unpack Joomla! the initial directories look like...
The beginnings of wisdom in Joomla Component development is the understanding of the Model-View-Controller paradigm. In the Joomla context, the Controller executes tasks. The Model is responsible for getting and setting data. The...