WeBuilder 2010 Released
The first editor I reviewed here, Blumentals’ WeBuilder, just got an update. Here’s what’s new in WeBuilder 2010:
- Improved text editor – updated text selection, undo and redo behavior
- Improved Code Explorer with filtering feature
- Improved Find and Find in Files
- New CSS definitions – IE 8, FireFox 3, Safari, iPhone – be up to date
- Greatly improved Project Publishing dialog
- One-click publish all changes to web
- Improved FTP and SFTP stability and compatibility
- Auto complete for brackets and quotes
- Improved Color Picker
- PHP 5 object oriented programming support
- Support for custom PHP libraries
- Powerful JavaScript support
- Internet Explorer 8 preview
- Works with Windows 7
- Improved performance and robustness
- Countless other improvements and fixes
WeBuilder 2010 Standard Licence is $69.85 USD; Personal (non-commercial) is $49.85; and the Standard upgrade is $39.85.
Coda 1.6 Released, Featuring Coda Plug-Ins
Panic has released Coda 1.6. This updated version features a number of bug fixes and improvements, the chief among them being the new Coda plug-ins. The plug-ins, which can be written in any common scripting language or Cocoa, allow you to extend Coda’s text editing functionality. For example:
you could write a plug-in to insert the current date and time into your document, change the case of selected text, run code through a custom validator, or even wrap code with a special tag.
Coda plug-ins are similar to TextMate’s Commands. In fact, you can even import TextMate Commands using the Coda Plug-In Creator.
Coda 1.6 is a free upgrade for Coda 1.x owners. To learn more about Coda plug-ins, check out the Coda Developer Zone.
Komodo IDE 5.0 Released
ActiveState has just released Komodo IDE 5.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version now has support for Git, Mercurial (hg), and Bazaar distributed version control systems, compatibility with external code formatters such as PHP Beautifier, and is built on the Mozilla 1.9 codebase.
Komodo IDE 5.0 is $245 USD until December 23, after which time it will be $295. There is a 21-day trial if you want to check it out before shelling out.
See our review of Komodo IDE 4.0.
Seen in the Wild: BBEdit 9 and Coda 1.5
Just received a press release for BBEdit 9, which has been released. What’s new? Projects, Code Completion, Edit in Results Windows and Disk Browsers, Integration with MobileMe, Modeless Find/Replace Windows, Character-level Find Differences, Scratchpad, Save/Copy as Styled Text, Search Xcode Projects, Fix/ToDo Tracking, Improved Autosave, Preview in MS Windows browsers… etc.
Also, yesterday, Coda 1.5 was released. New features include Subversion integration, Find across files, Custom web books, and Improved Clips.
Big couple of days in the Mac HTML editor world.
Mac OS X FTP Client Flow Released
Another competitor in the Mac FTP market has just been released: Flow by Extendmac. Flow features pretty much everything you’d expect from an FTP client, plus the ability to QuickLook files on your server, automatically copy the URL to the file you just uploaded to your clipboard, as well as a built-in editor. Flow is Leopard only and is $29 USD. You can also download a 15-day trial.
NewsGator Releases NetNewsWire and FeedDemon as Freeware
From the press release:
NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services.
I was a long-time FeedDemon user on Windows, and it’s the reader I use to measure all others. On the Mac, I’ve been using Vienna, but now that NNW is also free, I’ll give it a try. Sweet news!
skEdit 4.0 Released
skEdit, the “little Mac editor that could,” has just turned 4.0. There are a bunch of new features, including:
- Extensible Editing, which allows you to create and edit new language files for syntax highlighting, code folding, code completion, code navigation, and code indexing.
- Remote Editing, allowing you to edit files over (S)FTP or WebDav.
- Projects, which can be created from local or remote files.
- Code Completion “for built-in functions, classes, etc. skEdit will even index your own files, so custom functions, classes, etc. will show up too.
- Search one or many files and perform project-wide search and replace, all using regex.
- User Scripts, written in any language, to automate custom tasks.
skEdit also comes with a new price of $35 USD (up from $25), and the free lifetime upgrades now only apply to those who purchased skEdit pre-4.0.
Software Updates: Aptana and TopStyle
Well, two editors have just been updated. Most recently, Aptana is now out of beta. Aptana Studio 1.0 comes in two flavours: Professional and Community. Professional’s intro price is $99 USD; Community is free. I downloaded the Community version for Mac last night but haven’t checked it out yet. Aptana Studio is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Also, TopStyle 3.5 has been released. 3.5 is a free upgrade for those who already own TopStyle 3. TopStyle is Windows only.
e Text Editor 1.0 Released
e is now officially out of Beta. Affectionately known as TextMate for Windows, e has been my main editor for the past few months (review forthcoming). If you haven’t already, go grab the trial and test it out.
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
Ok, another one of those “fell-off-the-planet” months. No reviews, no telephone calls, not even a single, heart-rending, electronic billet-doux. But I’ve thought of you often, I promise.
Anyway, big news (?) today in the HTML editor world (at least for Mac users): Panic released Coda today, described as “one-window web development.” Looks snazzy. I’m hoping to get my grubby little hands on a review copy as soon as possible.
Also today: CSSEdit 2.5 was released, featuring brand new X-ray Inspector, new selector builder, document tabs, and more.
Do you think Adobe will send me a copy of the new Dreamweaver for review? Anyone interested in me reviewing it?
In Windows news, e Text Editor has become my go to editor recently, especially with all the work I’ve been doing in ExpressionEngine. It seems a new version is released every week with some minor/major improvements — most recently, support for auto-pairing of characters like quotes and brackets. Definitely worth a look if you’re on Windows and have TextMate envy.