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Open Komodo: An Open Source IDE For Open Languages For Open Languages Own Your IDE Eric Promislow ActiveState Software Inc. OpenKomodo: Own Your IDE Copenhagen, Denmark April 2, 2008 1 History Perl for Windows Active Python,

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Open Komodo: An Open Source IDE For Open Languages

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For Open Languages

Own Your IDE

Eric Promislow

ActiveState Software Inc.

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History

  • Perl for Windows
  • Active Python, Komodo

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  • Active Python, Komodo
  • ฀Anti-Spam Digression
  • Refocus on Developer Tools
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YAILWAD

  • Spent 1990s Competing with Java and

Perl

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Perl

  • ฀Original Komodo Team in 2000฀
  • Visual Studio .Net Digression
  • Back on Komodo in 2004
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฀Contradiction?

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Origins

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Agenda

  • Ruby and Rails Support
  • OpenKomodo

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  • OpenKomodo
  • Zooming In
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฀Komodo Philosophy

  • ฀Balance of Helpfulness
  • OpenKomodo: Own Your IDE

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  • Projects Are Optional
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Ruby Support

  • ฀Ruby-Aware Auto-Indentation
  • OpenKomodo: Own Your IDE

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  • Soft Characters
  • Code Completion

– Their Stuff – Your Stuff

  • Abbreviations (Snippets)
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฀Complete Known Names

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฀Walk Library Objects

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Call Tips

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Your Own Code

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฀Troubleshoot

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฀Rails Support: Goals

  • ฀Avoid the Command-Line for Routine

activities

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activities

– Generate & Migrate – Test – Debug – Run – SCC

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Useful Tools

  • ฀Firefox JavaScript Debugger
  • HTTP Inspector

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  • HTTP Inspector
  • DOM Inspector
  • Unit Test Integration
  • Rx Toolkit
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Visualizing Redirects: Before

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Visualizing Redirects: After

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Rails Support: Deploying

  • Specify Servers
  • Edit Remote Files

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  • Edit Remote Files
  • Remote Folders in Projects
  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All
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The Komodo Family

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The Komodo Family

  • Komodo IDE
  • Komodo Edit

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  • Komodo Edit
  • OpenKomodo : MPL GPL LGPL
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Why Open It

  • Unique in its underlying technology
  • Built with the same languages we

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  • Built with the same languages we

support

  • Build a foundation, let many build on top
  • Mozilla: Open, Cross-Platform
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Now That We’ve Open- Sourced It…

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Use It

  • http://www.openkomodo.com

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Extend It

  • Macros
  • Extensions

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  • Extensions
  • Hack the Source
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Build Something

  • Komodo IDE
  • Snapdragon

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  • Snapdragon
  • Mozpad
  • ?
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How did we get here?

  • 1994: Netscape 1.0 Beta
  • 1995: IE 2.0 Released

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  • 1995: IE 2.0 Released
  • Jan 1998: Netscape Open-Sources

Client

  • What does this have to do with

developer tools?

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End Lock-In

  • It’s My Data
  • It’s My Code

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  • It’s My Code
  • No Proprietary Formats
  • Choice of Environments
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Mozilla: Timing is Everything

  • Seamonkey and MAS too “90s”
  • Firefox and Thunderbird Follow Unix

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  • Firefox and Thunderbird Follow Unix

Philosophy

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Built on Standards

  • XUL isn’t too foreign
  • JavaScript is everyone’s second

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  • JavaScript is everyone’s second

language

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Other Apps

  • Flock
  • Sunbird

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  • Sunbird
  • Camino
  • Songbird
  • Joost
  • Hackety-Hack
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Even Microsoft Buys In

  • Windows Application Framework

– Based on XAML

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– Based on XAML – XAML based on XUL

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Is the Platform Irrelevant?

  • Where are the verticals?
  • Wait a generation…

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  • Wait a generation…
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How Developers Work

  • We’re Late Adopters
  • We Like Plain Text

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  • We Like Plain Text
  • Whiteboards vs. Electronic

Communication

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The Future of Programming

  • Was supposed to look like this…

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Programmers' Tools Matter

  • OpenKomodo is the right technology at

the right time

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the right time

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Community Matters

  • Every platform needs one
  • Case Study: Visual Basic

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  • Case Study: Visual Basic
  • "Support statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on

… Vista"

  • Visual Studio .Net (7.0) Q & A
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Openness Matters

  • Hard to grow a community without

empowering people

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empowering people

  • Extension contest showed people could

use it without large amounts of documentation

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Documentation is a Challenge

  • Writing doesn't usually scratch an itch
  • Every non-private function is callable

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  • Every non-private function is callable
  • The Sourceforge challenge
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And Now For Something More Technical…

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What Exactly Is Mozilla

  • XUL
  • JS

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  • JS
  • CSS
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Mozilla Components

  • NSPR
  • Gecko

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  • Gecko
  • Necko
  • XPCOM
  • XPConnect
  • XBL
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Komodo Under the Hood

  • Chrome - front-end -- src/chrome
  • PyXPCOM back-end -- src/

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  • PyXPCOM back-end -- src/
  • Over 20 FOSS components in contrib/
  • IDL files - src/* and sdk/
  • Over 260 files
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Interfaces & Implementations

Search

http://grok.openkomodo.com/source/xref/

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http://grok.openkomodo.com/source/xref/ http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/

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Write Macros

Samples in Toolbox Subset of API in Help

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Subset of API in Help Experiment with JavaScript Shell

  • http://community.activestate.com/

komodo-extension/ komodo-developer-extension

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Python or JavaScript?

  • JS code handles model and view
  • Python better suited for special cases

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  • Python better suited for special cases
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Python example:

  • t = ClipboardWrapper()
  • text = t.get()

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  • text = t.get()
  • paras = re.split(r'\r?\n\r?\n(?=.)', text)
  • import textwrap
  • lines = [textwrap.wrap(p) for p in paras]
  • t.put(eol.join(lines))
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Writing Extensions

  • Hello-world
  • Komodo "Komodo Extension Template"

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  • Komodo "Komodo Extension Template"
  • Steeper Leaning Curve that Macros

– Graphical UI Adds an Extra Dimension

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Undo Slider

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Getting Started

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UI expressed in XML

  • overlay id=%extension_name%Overlay ...

– commandset id=allcommands

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– commandset id=allcommands

  • command id=Tasks:HelloWorld
  • ncommand="alert('Hello world')"

– menupopup id=popup_tools

  • Menuitem id=menu_%extension_name%

label=%extension_nice_name%

  • bserves="Tasks:HelloWorld"

class="menu-iconic-wide"

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I18n

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chrome.manifeset

  • ฀content undoslider

jar:undoslider.jar!/content/

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jar:undoslider.jar!/content/ xpcnativewrappers=yes

  • overlay chrome://komodo/content/komodo.xul

chrome://undoslider/content/overlay.xul

  • skin undoslider classic/1.0

jar:undoslider.jar!/skin/

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Monkeypatching your IDE

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JavaScript

  • String.prototype.shuffle = function(s) {

var a = s.split('');

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var a = s.split(''); a.sort(function() { return 0.5 - Math.random(); }); return a.join(''); }

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JavaScript Cautions

  • Komodo doesn't modify JS classes
  • Avoids loading third-party libraries

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  • Avoids loading third-party libraries
  • Other extensions might
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Namespaces

  • ko - global object
  • Be consistent

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  • Be consistent
  • Declare everything
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Monkeypatching via Hooks

  • Function addModifiedHandler(view) {

gOrigH = view.onModifiedHandler;

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gOrigH = view.onModifiedHandler; view.onModifiedHandler = function(…) { … if (typeof(gOrigH) == "function") { gOrigH(…); } } }

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What about Ruby XPCOM?

  • ฀http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/index.html
  • Version 0.0.4

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  • Version 0.0.4
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Getting the source

  • http://www.openkomodo.com
  • SVN

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  • SVN
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Searching the source

  • http://grok.openkomodo.com/

source/xref

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source/xref

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Resources

  • http://www.openkomodo.com
  • http://community.activestate.com

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  • http://community.activestate.com
  • irc://moznet/#komodo
  • http://blogs.activestate.com/ericp
  • ericp@activestate.com