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Disinformation Is An Open Source Problem
The Oxford dictionary defines disinformation as “false information which is intended to mislead.” That simple definition seems to understate the problem, given the fact that ...
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PHPDoc and JSDoc auto documenting
Nathan Rijksen has recently posted a neat Komodo macro that I’ve found very useful when editing PHP and JavaScript files: https://community.activestate.com/forum/phpdoc-autocompletion What Nathan’s macro does ...
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Want Something? Pull a Trigger
Although there’s been a disconcerting spike in gang-related shootings here in Vancouver, this article is talking about Komodo’s triggers, macros that fire automatically under certain ...
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ppm install MinGW
Here’s a really cool development for ActivePerl users on Windows. MinGW is now available from the ActiveState PPM repository: C:\>ppm install MinGW This installs the ...
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Live Projects and why I don’t use them.
I have to get this off my chest: I think the default “Live Import” on Komodo projects can be dangerously confusing. A number of friends ...
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jQuery turns 3! Congrats the jQuery team.
jQuery, that Swiss-army-knife of JavaScript libraries, turned 3 today: http://blog.jquery.com/2009/01/14/jquery-13-and-the-jquery-foundation/ If you’ve been living under a rock for the last 3 years and are wondering, ...
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Debugging with the Google App Engine SDK
A few months ago I downloaded the Google App Engine SDK to play with. Everyone seemed to be going nuts over the demo, and I ...
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Komodo 5.0.3 API changes
Just a heads up that the Komodo 5.0.3 release will change the behaviour of some of the common API methods. This should only affect a ...
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Komodo IDE 5.0 Nominated for Jolt Awards
They just announced the nominees, and Komodo IDE 5.0 was shortlisted for the best Developer Environment. We’re in contention for the coveted Plexiglas-encased can of ...
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Dynamic Language Use Pops in Asia
According to eWeek.com, dynamic language use is soaring in Asia, with more than 88 percent of developers in a recent survey saying they use some ...
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PHP 5.3, round 1
PHP 5.3 has hit Alpha 3 now, so it was about time I got around to poking at the new features myself, instead of just ...
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Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
This recent post on CNET was forwarded to me by a colleague yesterday. An interesting part of the post is that “only 31 percent of ...
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New PPM servers in full swing
Following up on our previous post about rebuilding the ppm build server backend, we finally have flipped the switch for all PPM 4 clients (all ...
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