Sean Coates: PHP, Web (+Beer)

As I've mentioned a few times in the past weeks, I've been working with Komodo 4.0 as my primary IDE for Web development.

Over the past week, especially, I've been hacking it into submission—that is, I've been extending it to do exactly what I want.

For example, earlier this week, I wrote a macro that adds vim-like modeline support: komode.

Later in the week, I added an often needed "copy as (HTML|URL) encoded" feature (an extension—looks almost exactly like a Firefox extension).

Both of these tasks were really simple (once I got my head around the parts of the API that I used), thanks to XUL and JavaScript (the latter of which, many of us already know enough to get rolling).

The icing on the cake is that ActiveState is running a Komodo Extensibility Challenge where they're giving away some pretty sweet prizes (ends April 1).

I almost didn't mention it on my blog, because I want to win, but if you're inclined, you really should enter the contest (-:

(edit: miscategorized)

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