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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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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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Pseudo-debugging Komodo JavaScript macros
Another link to the ActiveState community site… this article is at https://community.activestate.com/pseudo-debugging-komodo-javascript-macros
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Coding Like it’s 1982: The RubyCamp Writeup
I took a break from working on Komodo to build a rough Google Maps API app with Rails, and presented it at Vancouver RubyCamp this ...
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Exploring Firefox Event Objects without Debugging
For such a powerful tool, Firefox/Mozilla’s event objects aren’t very well documented. I still haven’t found one definitive, concise source of all the docs I ...
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XULRunner + PyXPCOM
I wrote this to the PyXPCOM list, but then thought I’d blog it for those who don’t read that list: A while back we open ...
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Call to Firefox extension developers
Mark Finkle has been making a call out to extension developers to update their extensions for Firefox 3. His call, and some recent extensions that ...
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The Future of Software and Social Networks
My last few blogs have been pretty techie. I’ve even been wondering if I should write about some messing around I’ve been doing on weekends ...
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Improving Ajax Performance by Being Selective
I spent a few days over the holidays messing around with Rails 2.0 and the Google Maps API. Sure, these technologies aren’t the newest. GMaps ...
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XML+CSS+Komodo==Cool Document Preview
A number of times recently I’ve had the idea of preview-ability for different XML formats come up. Komodo has a simple browser preview built into ...
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