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WeBuilder 2010 Released

Eric — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:52:25 +0000

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

Eric — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:33:46 +0000

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

Eric — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:02:43 +0000

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

Eric — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:42 +0000

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

Eric — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:09:00 +0000

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.