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Oh-My-Posh is a powerful custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable. It does not only beautify the terminal, but it also increases the work efficiency by adding lot of features related to usability, hints, history etc....

One of the common use cases for accessing Git repositories on Github is authentication via SSH keys. This offers a secure way of working with Github repositories using SSH protocol. If you use Eclipse IDE for development and want to use the same for Git workflows like ‘commit’, ‘pull’, ‘push’...

The shell is a program that accepts and interprets commands. Besides bash, Linux supports many other shell programs, such as ksh, zsh, csh, and fish. Each of these shells have some unique features that sets them apart from other shells. In this article, we shall see multiple methods you...

1. Introduction Installing WordPress on your computer helps you try out WordPress, test themes and plugins, and learn WordPress development.  It lets you operate a website within your own computer. The website isn’t visible to other people. So, you can make an experiment with the design components, plugins, settings, etc....

This article shows how to change the Package Explorer text size and style. The font used for tree and table views can now be customized with a font preference. This preference is called "Tree and Table font for views" and can be found in Window > Preferences > General >...

IntelliJ Quick Documentation So how do you generally refer your Java API Doc? If you use Google or online Java API Doc or even a locally downloaded copy then here is a better way, why not view the JavaDoc hints within IntelliJ editor itself. The article below shows the quick...

Using below procedure, you shall be able to setup SSH-Agent to run automatically whenever GitBash is launched on Windows. The ssh-agent process will continue to run until you log out, shut down your computer, or kill the process. Also you may need to add your SSH keys separately unless...

Apache has made it very easy to have multiple websites or web applications running on the same physical server, and access each using a custom domain name. This is known as virtual hosting, and each virtual host can be mapped to a different subdirectory of the server. 1. What are...

Why change Apache Port By Default, Apache runs HTTP on port 80 and SSL on port 443 in XAMPP. Generally, you may need to change the port number for the following reasons : For customized network design. For security purposes. For resolving port conflicts with other applications. For example, users commonly report a conflict...

By default the GitBash prompt settings / configuration come from shell script called 'git-prompt.sh'. This is usually hosted inside 'profile.d' directory inside the GitBash installation directory. The below described method only focusses on customizing the 'GitBash' prompt and NOT about customizing default 'Bash' prompt on Linux terminals. fd30baa716dbfbe282fe147ab717b664

Why run XAMPP as-admin The XAMPP is recommended to be executed as-admin as it requires running a couple of system services such as Apache, MySQL etc. Also if you have not installed Apache or MySQL as system services, the XAMPP services may still require to access and operate custom system...