Developing on Linux Gets Professional with Komodo; ActiveState's Popular IDE Gives Programmers a Slicker Linux Experience and Subversion Support.BOSTON -- Developers running Linux come from all parts of the programming world. Some write Perl scripts, some program in 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. or Python, while others look forward to a good Tcl. It doesn't matter which language you code in, programming on Linux just got slicker with ActiveState's Komodo 3.1. ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, today released Komodo 3.1, the newest version of the award-winning professional integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE). Komodo 3.1 now offers cross-platform developers a GTK See GTK+. 2+ based user interface, improved Linux desktop integration, faster debugging with Python, support for Subversion, improved UTF-8 and PHP5 support, and increased performance on Linux. "The GTK2+ based interface is key to this Linux savvy release," says Shane Caraveo, Komodo Tech Lead at ActiveState. Caraveo says, "Users of modern Linux distributions  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. can now customize and tweak the look and feel of the Komodo interface on Linux. Fonts are clearer, the editor moves smoother, and the interface is snappier." Richard Monson-Haefel, a Senior Analyst with the Burton Group, supports Linux IDEs like Komodo that specialize in open source languages. Monson-Haefel says, "Dynamic languages like PHP, Perl, and Python are becoming increasingly important in enterprise development. In order for these powerful languages to be useful in the enterprise, IT needs full-featured IDEs like ActiveState's Komodo 3.1." Komodo 3.1 is built on top of the same framework as Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation's popular open source Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Komodo also continues to showcase other open source technologies, including: Scintilla A glimmer; a spark; the slightest particle or trace. "Scintilla of evidence" is a metaphorical expression describing a very insignificant or trifling item of evidence. , Python, SQLite, GTK2, and libxslt. Free evaluation versions of Komodo 3.1 are available online: http://www.ActiveState.com/Komodo/ About ActiveState ActiveState is the leading provider of tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). . Over two million developers rely on ActiveState's professional development tools, high-quality language distributions and enterprise services. (C) 2005 ActiveState, a division of Sophos All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners |
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