PORTLAND, Ore.----ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic
languages, released a case study today at OSCON in Portland that
highlights how Second Story Interactive Studios, a Portland-based studio
that creates innovative user experiences, used Komodo IDE to simplify a
complex code management and development project.
Komodo IDE is a multi-platform, multi-language integrated development
environment IDE for dynamic web development.
Second Story was recently tasked with creating Arago™,
an online database for the National Postal Museum that would amass their
collection of over 300,000 objects and present them in a user-friendly
interface. With elaborate data import scripts to translate data from a
third-party collection management tool, all the logic involved in
managing researcher contributions, and the website itself, it was a
large and complicated project.
“I found out about Komodo at OSCON 2005 and
was very impressed by what I saw; it was the perfect tool for the job,”
said David Brewer, a web application developer with Second Story who
specializes in building back-ends and HTML interfaces for collection
database websites.
Komodo offered Brewer and other developers at Second Story syntax
highlighting and syntax checking that made it easier to spot typos
before they turned into bugs, while the debugger tracked down more
subtle problems. The code browser and bookmark features simplified
locating code to reference and jump back to it as needed, and, using the
Perl interactive shell for quick hacks and testing and creating regular
expressions with the Rx Toolkit, made development faster as well.
Project management features also proved invaluable.
“Komodo solved so many of the problems we
struggled with when using less capable tools,”
said Brewer. “Developing Perl in Komodo IDE
was an absolute joy compared to our previous approaches.”
ActiveState is featuring Komodo IDE, the developers' tool of choice at
Second Story, at OSCON.
Read the complete case story at http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/case_study.plex
and see the amazing results of Second Story's work at http://arago.si.edu/
or http://www.secondstory.com/.
Komodo IDE
Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for
end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes
creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for
client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML,
coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP,
Python, Ruby and Tcl. Komodo IDE licenses are $295 US for use across
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Learn more about Komodo IDE at http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide.
About ActiveState
ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic
languages such as JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Millions
of developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform, professional
development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise
services. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial
Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and
healthcare sectors in British Columbia. Learn more at http://www.activestate.com.
About Second Story
Second Story creates informative and entertaining interactive
experiences in the form of media-rich storytelling presentations, online
collections, interpretive installations, and database-driven
applications.
Since its founding in 1994, the Second Story team of creative artists,
producers, writers, animators, and programmers has developed over 200
award-winning interactive projects. The studio takes pride in providing
clear and intuitive access to archives, artifacts, and information as
well as staging compelling narratives using digital media, both online
and in situated kiosks and presentations. Learn more at http://www.secondstory.com.
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