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Komodo: Better JavaScript call-tips using JSDoc

We’ve got some screencasts coming out in the new year, but to tide you over till then, here’s a short…

Getting some programmers to come up with a list of things they are thankful for in their favorite programming language…

If you’re new to Komodo, you probably won’t know or care that the Project system has just undergone a huge…

I like it when a Komodo tech support email comes in that makes me think “Good question. I don’t know…

Don’t panic. SQL Server magazine published “A New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications” a few days…

A very, very useful question came up on stackoverflow a couple of weeks ago: “As a programmer what single discovery…

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Well, ActiveState has been giving away ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl…

Secunia reported a “moderately critical” vulnerability in ActivePerl today. It alarmed us until we noticed that they were citing an…

We love user screencasts! As the guy who does most of the Komodo screencasts around here, I’m always delighted to…

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

If you’re a decent programmer, you’ll hopefully find this funny. If you’re a completely incompetent programmer, you may find this…

The title is intentional. I’ll explain later. Once you’ve started abusing the language, you might as well kick it to…