Announcement: RedBook v0.4.0 released

Posted by h3rald Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:34:00 GMT

I’m pleased to announce a new release of the RedBook daily logging and time tracking script. This release introduces two new operations, four stats-related directives and a brand new Windows Installer able to setup RedBook in a blink, with (almost) no configuration at all.

Let’s have a closer look…

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A closer look at Komodo Edit

Posted by h3rald Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:23:00 GMT

Digg!

What’s your favorite code editor?

This is a common question which still keeps popping up on community boards, mailing lists, comments, etc. Every programmer who writes code in some programming language normally has an editor of choice. Being realistic, most of the times it’s not only one program but several, depending on the language and on the features needed at the time. Yes, great, but how do you choose your favorite editor? By trying a lot of them of course: that’s what I’ve been doing since I started programming. Lately I’ve become fond of Vim (or better, gVim), although I have a few other editors I may recommend, e.g.:

Recently, however, I came across my nth “what’s your favorite editor” thread and someone mentioned Komodo Edit. I knew of it already, actually, but I never had a chance to give it a proper try. ActiveState is well known mainly for two things:

  • Their effort in offering a lot of commercial, windows-based Perl libraries
  • Their commercial IDE, Komodo IDE, which I personally tried quite a long time ago

The problems of Komodo IDE are foundamentally two:

  • It costs money – this is not great in a world where Eclipse and Netbeans are free
  • It is an IDE – which normally means ‘heavy as hell’.

It’s a matter of taste and needs: some people feel more confortable with using an editor for certain tasks, while sometimes an IDE may be the best solution, despite its potential slowness and bulk.

Komodo Edit solves the above-mentioned problems because:

  • It’s free
  • It’s an editor

Actually I wouldn’t call it an editor, because it offers quite a lot of features which are normally absent in editors—it’s something in-between, which definitely deserves a try.

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Text Link Ads sidebar for Typo

Posted by h3rald Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:47:00 GMT

I thought it would be nice to share the code of the sidebar I created to display Text Link Ads sponsor links on my Typo powered blog.

There’s actually another plugin which was made for Typo 2.6, but unfortunately it doesn’t work with Typo 4.1.1.

Installation

Just unzip it inside your vendor/plugins directory. The new sidebar should appear in the list of your available sidebars in the Typo’s administration area.

Configuration

In Typo’s administration area, configure the following settings for this sidebar:

  • Title: The title of the sidebar
  • KEY: Your TLA’s XML key
  • Affiliate ID: Your TLA’s affiliate ID
  • Advertise Here: A message shown when no links are displayed.

Download Text Links Ads Sidebar v1.0

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