ActiveState's Komodo 4.2 Updates for Smoother Coding.ActiveState Enhances Award-Winning Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit Advanced Web Development Toolkits VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, today released Komodo IDE 4.2, the latest update to the multi-platform, multi-language integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) for advanced web development. Komodo IDE helps free developers to focus on advanced web development. This release incorporates more useful features like auto-update, necessary features like bug fixes, and nice-to-have features like soft characters, plus improved functionality for dynamic languages. Key additions to this release are auto updates and soft characters. Auto updates means users don't need to check for the latest features or reinstall To go through the installation process once again, because files have become corrupted. See reload. Komodo to get the latest version. Soft characters is a new feature for automatic insertion of closing brackets, braces and parentheses. "I've been a Komodo customer for almost five years, and couldn't imagine using another editor for my work with dynamic languages. Komodo IDE syntax highlights and auto-completes my Perl, Ruby, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. , allowing my team to write better code more quickly than we ever have," said Chris Gerber of Pfizer Global Manufacturing. "Version 4.1 added Ruby on Rails See Ruby. support that went beyond my expectations, including the ability to create databases directly from the YAML YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language file. With the addition of soft characters and automatic updates in version 4.2, things are only getting better." As with previous releases, Komodo IDE features intelligent tools for regular expressions, team development, customization and unparalleled extensibility. The result is a powerful coding environment for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , Python, Ruby and Tcl and for nclient-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML. A single license covers users across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Today ActiveState also released the latest iteration of Komodo Edit, a free multi-platform, multi-language editor for dynamic languages and Ajax technologies based on the award-winning Komodo IDE. Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit are now available from www.activestate.com. These releases follow last week's news that ActiveState launched a new initiative to create an open source platform that promotes open standards. The Open Komodo Project will support the open web and web standards, fill a need for developer tools in the open web technology stack, and drive further innovation for Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit. Read more about the Open Komodo Project at www.activestate.com/openkomodo. About ActiveState ActiveState creates professional development tools, language distributions, and business solutions for dynamic languages. We focus on building JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl technologies that just work. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology in British Columbia. For more information, visit www.activestate.com. (c) 2007 ActiveState Software Inc. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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