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Today I gave a quick talk at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, ostensibly called 'Hacking Komodo for Drupal development'. A better ( but less interesting? ) title might have been "here are a bunch of ways you can extend Komodo easily, with Drupal-centric examples". I've attached a PDF of the slides and a zip files of the samples I showed.

As well, I just published a Drupal extension for Komodo ( well, the start of one ) on the ActiveState community site:

Package managers are useful things. For language distributions, they simplify the job of finding and installing modules, libraries or extensions for that language.

I'm very excited about attending and speaking at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit weekend after next in Seattle, particularly because I get to talk about using Komodo for Drupal development, something near and dear to my heart.

How about a t-shirt and a $50 credit for our online store?

There's been a lot of development going on in Workspace. We've recently added the Mercurial (hg) support our users have been asking for. Workspace users now have a choice between distributed and centralized source control management tools.

We asked Shane Caraveo -- Lead Developer and Product Manager, Developer Services -- some questions about these recent developments, and posted the results on the new Workspace blog.

Fast on the heels of last week's Komodo / Acquia stack post by Robert Douglass, I just noticed a neat tip from Kevin Bridges on hooking up api.drupal.org in Komodo to do automatic lookups of the Drupal api docs based on your current selection:

http://kevinbridges.org/node/182

Robert Douglass, pre-eminent Drupal hacker and author, has a really nice blog post on the Acquia site about setting up Komodo IDE, Xdebug and their Acquia Drupal Stack Installer:

http://acquia.com/blog/xdebug-komodo-and-acquia-drupal-stack-installer

The ActiveState online store and customer account functions are moving from C# to an open source dynamic languages based solution.

While we transition data in the systems, online purchases and customer accounts will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 25, from approximately 5pm but should be back by 8pm Pacific Time.

We appreciate your patience.

Once we are live again, if you find a problem or would like to provide feedback, please email website-feedback [at] activestate [dot] com">website-feedback [at] activestate [dot] com.

Thank you.

I just noticed a new interesting extension for Komodo that may come in handy for people used to a Dreamweaver-like workflow ( ie working on a project locally and then uploading to a file server ):

http://www.thewhyandthehow.com/scp-for-komodo-ide/

Development teams can finally hone their Perl, Python and Tcl programming skills with the new Business Training program ActiveState launched today. There are a lot of benefits to encouraging developers to polish their programming skills.

One obvious reason is that the development team could become better experts in coding with Perl, Python and Tcl. For their organization, this means a couple of things: