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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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Change 1236
Today Todd committed change 1236 to the Open Komodo tree, which to me is a particularly significant change for a couple of reasons: It’s a ...
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The Community Site gets Chameleoned!
We just flicked the switch to turn on the new, unified ActiveState theme system for the ActiveState Community Site. Cache-allowing, you can see the results ...
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Spring is in the air…?
Spring is being very clever today in Vancouver – disguising itself as snowflakes! Good thing we have some fresh news. The ActivePerl PPM repository is ...
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TODO helper update
The todo helper extension, useful for finding those todo markers inside your source files has now been updated to work in conjunction with the new ...
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Namspaces please
Last week I saw a forum post that tweaked my curiosity: “Incompatibility between SQLite Manager and Source Tree extensions“ As it turns out, a subtle ...
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Looking forward to Komodo on 1.9 =)
It’s posts like this that make me proud to be on the Mozilla platform: What it essentially means is that, once Komodo is built from ...
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A new face for bugzilla at ActiveState
Ages ago ActiveState started using bugzilla, but there was on primary problem with it. The usability and appearance was not what we considered to be ...
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Komodo 4.3 released!
Today we released Komodo 4.3 after several months development; 4.3 is a nice little release that builds on the solid based of Komodo 4 with ...
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Update your extensions!
Komodo 4.3 Beta 2 is out and we’re closing in on the remaining list of blocker bugs before release. I’d like to put a call ...
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The Impatient Developer’s Guide to Writing Python Nose Plugins
Again, I’ve got the too-many-blogs problem. Code blocks look better on the ActiveState community site, so I’ve posted the article there, at https://community.activestate.com/impatient-developers-guide-writing-python-nose-plugins The synopsis: ...
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New features for OpenKomodo
With the upcoming Komodo 4.3 release (we’ve just released Alpha builds), check out the new Find/Replace functionality now included in OpenKomodo: Find and Replace changes ...
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Perl Dev Kit gets ActivePerl 5.10 support
ActiveState updated Perl Dev Kit (PDK) to 7.1, to add support for Perl 5.10 (in addition to the 5.6 and 5.8 support). PDK is the ...
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