ActiveState Announces Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Contest.VANCOUVER, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography -- ActiveState Software Inc., the leading provider of development tools and services for dynamic languages, today announced the Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Contest. The contest challenges developers using Komodo IDE 4.0 or Komodo Edit 4.0 to create macros, templates, snippets, run commands or XPI XPI eXtended Process Integration (J.D. Edwards) XPI Cross Platform Installer (file extension) XPI Chi Rho Iota (Greek letters to abbreviate Christ) XPI Cross-Polar Isolation XPI X. extensions for Komodo's open architecture, with $1000 in prizes to the winning entries. Komodo added extensibility to its feature set with Komodo IDE 4.0, the first unified workspace for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications, released in January; Komodo Edit 4.0, a free multi-language editor for dynamic languages based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, was released earlier this month. Contest entrants can submit their work in the Komodo XPI Extension category or the Komodo Other Extensibility category (or both) on the Komodo Community website, at http://support.activestate.com/products/Komodo. The contest entry deadline is April 1, 2007. A shortlist short·list also short-list n. A list of preferable items or candidates that have been selected for final consideration, as in making an award or filling a position. Noun 1. of finalists will be chosen from all entries based on code quality, user interface quality, usefulness, and 'coolness' factor. The winners will be chosen via online voting by the Komodo Community beginning Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Voting closes Tuesday, May 8, 2007. The winners will be announced at RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon. The winning entry in the Komodo XPI Extension category will win an Apple Nano. The winning entry in the Komodo Other Extensibility category will win a $150 iTunes gift card. There are secondary prizes of iTunes gift cards to be won as well. The Komodo Community site is hosting user forums and FAQs for the contest, as well as resources for creating and sharing extensions, at http://support.activestate.com. Read the official contest rules at http://support.activestate.com/forum-topic/komodo-extensibility-chal. Komodo IDE Komodo IDE 4.0 is the first unified workspace for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. A rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as 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. , 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. , JavaScript and 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. , coupled with advanced support 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, enables developers to quickly and easily create robust web apps. Award-winning features include comprehensive editing and debugging, plus intelligent tools for regular expressions, team development, customization and unparalleled extensibility. The result is a powerful coding environment for framework stacks like Ruby on Rails See Ruby. and CakePHP and client libraries such as the Yahoo! UI Library Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) is an open-source JavaScript library, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting.[1] It also includes many CSS resources. It is available under BSD License[2]. and Dojo do·jo n. pl. do·jos A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate. [Japanese d . Komodo IDE 4.0 licenses are $295 US and a single license covers users across Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Learn more at http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide. Komodo Edit Based on the award-winning Komodo IDE 4.0, Komodo Edit 4.0 is a free, feature-rich editor for the full range of Komodo-supported dynamic languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl) and platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows). Like Komodo IDE 4.0, Komodo Edit 4.0 also supports client-side Ajax technologies, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. For more information or to download, go to http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit. ActiveState ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Millions of developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform, professional development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise services. Learn more at http://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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