Comments on: What’s In Chris’ Brain: November 2008 Issue http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2008/11/05/whats-in-chris-brain-november-2008-issue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right? Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PJ Hyett http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2008/11/05/whats-in-chris-brain-november-2008-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-10974 PJ Hyett Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:14:30 +0000 http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=335#comment-10974 @James If your devs don't feel like playing around on the command line, take a look at GitX[1] since you're on OS X. It's not an IDE, but a nice UI for managing Git, similar to SvnX for subversion. 1. http://gitx.frim.nl/ @James If your devs don’t feel like playing around on the command line, take a look at GitX[1] since you’re on OS X. It’s not an IDE, but a nice UI for managing Git, similar to SvnX for subversion.

1. http://gitx.frim.nl/

]]> By: James http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2008/11/05/whats-in-chris-brain-november-2008-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-10969 James Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:45:33 +0000 http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=335#comment-10969 I had a look at Komodo after reading your post, and it's incredibly impressive on paper. Integrated Git support is what got me excited considering we're in the process of migrating our source control into github and the other developers aren't exactly pumped about having to babysit a command line all day. However, once I downloaded it and gave it a shot, I was far less enthusiastic. First off, the git integration doesn't even work. There are several bugs filed related to source control integration (not just git, people are having problems with SVN too), and ActiveState's response to these bugs is "wait for 5.0.x". You don't go and advertise a feature, release a $250 product and then shrug your shoulders when those features don't even work! Also the FTP integration is very weak. You can open single files over FTP one at a time, but you can't base a project on a remote destination. You would have to "add a remote file" one at a time to the project which is insane (especially since Komodo claims to support remote debugging).... and it doesn't make a distinction between remote and local versions of a file. It is baffling to me how few IDEs/Editors get this right. Komodo does some things right - the code complete is nice (both based on your own code, and the language's built-in stuff), it loads up pretty quickly and the editor itself seems nice and snappy. If it actually worked as advertised, I'd be championing the purchase of at least 10 licenses.... maybe when 5.0.x comes along ;) Until then, I'm sticking with Coda <3 on OSX and... well... still looking for something that is less crap than Dreamweaver on Windows (Any other readers have suggestions? Don't say Eclipse/Aptana either...). I had a look at Komodo after reading your post, and it’s incredibly impressive on paper. Integrated Git support is what got me excited considering we’re in the process of migrating our source control into github and the other developers aren’t exactly pumped about having to babysit a command line all day.

However, once I downloaded it and gave it a shot, I was far less enthusiastic. First off, the git integration doesn’t even work. There are several bugs filed related to source control integration (not just git, people are having problems with SVN too), and ActiveState’s response to these bugs is “wait for 5.0.x”. You don’t go and advertise a feature, release a $250 product and then shrug your shoulders when those features don’t even work!

Also the FTP integration is very weak. You can open single files over FTP one at a time, but you can’t base a project on a remote destination. You would have to “add a remote file” one at a time to the project which is insane (especially since Komodo claims to support remote debugging)…. and it doesn’t make a distinction between remote and local versions of a file. It is baffling to me how few IDEs/Editors get this right.

Komodo does some things right – the code complete is nice (both based on your own code, and the language’s built-in stuff), it loads up pretty quickly and the editor itself seems nice and snappy. If it actually worked as advertised, I’d be championing the purchase of at least 10 licenses…. maybe when 5.0.x comes along ;)

Until then, I’m sticking with Coda <3 on OSX and… well… still looking for something that is less crap than Dreamweaver on Windows (Any other readers have suggestions? Don’t say Eclipse/Aptana either…).

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