Fixing github access behind a corporate firewall with self-signed certificates

If you're doing development with bower packages in Visual Studio projects behind a corporate firewall, you may have run into issues with self-signed certificates. The quickest and easiest way to get around this (though definitely not safest or most recommended) is to simply globally ignore self-signed certificates.

On your Developer Command Prompt (assuming you've got 'git' in your PATH):

git config --global http.sslverify false