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When Eclipse meet Joomla!...from 0 to Joomla! in 3 minutes

The easiest way to develop component, modules, plugin for Joomla! using best of the breed open source software. 
In order to speed up development of Joomla software, I did develop a developer package "start and ready to work". So basically nothing special for any experienced developer, just a gain of time. Less experienced developer will enjoy the package!  Just unpack the big ZIP file on any drive, start 2 program and you have a running Eclipse and Joomla! environment for developing

Read more in the WIKI

To be release in a few hours from now

Maven for PHP uses the power of Maven for building, reporting on and creating documentations of PHP projects. It adapts the Maven build lifecycle to the PHP world while fully supporting PHP 4 and PHP 5. PHP for Maven uses PHPUnit for unit testing and doxygen for creating the api documentation.
Use a PHP library project to create a library that can be used by other PHP libraries or PHP web projects. Use a PHP web project to create a standalone web project.

So I quickly describe what I did install on my root server (OpenSuse 11.X)

• Maven 2 
• php not an issue on a linux box, zypper in php5 or apt-get  to install php
• doxygen
• phpdocumentor

My Objectives: being able to build all my Joomla! component using best agile development practices

“Specific tools and techniques such as continuous integration, automated or xUnit test, pair programming, test driven development, design patterns, domain-driven design, code refactoring and other techniques are often used to improve quality and enhance project agility.”

Here is an useful tool for improving performance of your website: The CSS sprite generator takes a number of source images and combines them into a single "sprite" image and supplies CSS to map to each image within the sprite. The technique this tool employs is often used to improve the performance of a web site by reducing the number of HTTP requests that the client's browser needs to make.

CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X and Y coordinates. Having assigned this generated image to relevant page elements the background-position CSS property can then be used to shift the visible area to the required component image.

This technique can be very effective for improving site performance, particularly in situations where many small images, such as menu icons, are used. The Yahoo! home page, for example, employs the technique for exactly this.

I’ve installed a copy of this tool at:

http://css-sprite-generator.waltercedric.com

And took time to: