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Another free webeditor - Aptana

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:26:00 GMT

Aptana is a free / open source project built on the eclipse RDT environment.

It's main focus is on javascript.

For which it brings a nice code completion / information interface and delivers hints and code completion for:

Javascript
CSS
and HTML

There are also quite a few videos about how well it supports the different Javascript libraries out there.

You can check them out here.

Developments in Ruby - Part 2 - Ruby and DotNet

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 14 May 2006 11:02:00 GMT

I'm hearing some people think:

Ok cool that Ruby is happening and all that but we are a DotNet Community site.
Very true, but there are quite a few links to the DotNet world going on and developing at quite a nice speed.

The bridges available now are:
http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/ ( - 2003 )
http://www.saltypickle.com/RubyDotNet/ ( - 2004)

And under active development and most promising:
RubyClr from: www.iunknown.com ( active )
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyclr

This seems to be very usable, he already has some advanced things like Databinding ActiveRecord ( Ruby ORM ) and a huge amount of other stuff working.
There unfortunately isn't a recent download link at the moment so for this we will have to wait.

The bad thing of these solutions is that there is the performance penalty of using the Ruby interpreter for executing Ruby code.
there are also some other solutions in the works which are full blown compiler implementations.

Ones I'm aware of:
Wilco Bauwer is working on a IronRuby compiler.

Also a university in Australia has a Microsoft sponsored project going on for a Ruby.Net compiler.

These 2 currently aren't ready for production or even have any releases out, but check back in a couple of months to see how far along they are :)
Offcourse there is also another way to use Ruby in .Net apps and that is by the scripting bridge already

This can be done using ActiveScriptRuby and then enabling the good old MS Active scripting engine.

Offcourse one can also use this technique to enable other languages like:
http://www.mvps.org/scripting/languages/

Warning !!! - IE behaviour modified on: Active X / Flash / Movie content + Solutions

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:21:00 GMT

Microsoft says that, from now on, ActiveX control activation will require that, "when a web page uses the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements to load an ActiveX control, the control's user interface is blocked until the user activates it. If a page uses these elements to load multiple controls, each interactive control must be individually activated."

This effects:
ActiveX controls, Adobe Reader, Firefox plug-ins, Java applets, QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player, etcetera

Excerpts from: http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/ip_aadahdadhj_jf/

How to get around it:
use document.write to write the tags.

solutions:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/

The MSDN Link

MySql developments

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:54:00 GMT

Interesting development going on currently surrounding MySql every ones favorite sql 92 / ACID incompliant database.

MySql AB has recently transfered the license of MySql from LPGL to PGL.
For those not so well informed in what the difference is:
"using the Library GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs."
And offcourse GPL code may not be used in anything which isn't licensed with a GPL compatible license.

MySql is offcourse dually licensed Commercial + GPL so if you want to use it for anything commercial then you have have to pay up, unless your making use of the web loophole:

"At present, companies that distribute GPL-licensed software must make the source code publicly available, including any modifications they've made. Though the rule covers many businesses that use GPL-licensed software for commercial ends, it doesn't cover Web companies that use such software to offer their services through the Web, as they're not actually distributing the software."

Ok, so the whole thing became a lot less .Net friendly :P

Now there is a new development on the MySql horizon: Oracle buys INNO DB

Which looks like a very tactical move by Oracle to crush MySql...
MySql 5 which just went into release candidate mode, might have looked a bit too much like a "real database".

All things said be very aware of where MySql is going... and if you have alternatives for a new project I suggest you have a good look at them.

Things might get ugly around MySql soon.