New Recipes feed improvement
The new ActiveState Code site improves a little bit on the feeds for new recipes.
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ActiveState Code: lauched!
We launched ActiveState Code today, and there was much rejoicing. Yaaaah!
ActiveState Code is a site for sharing code recipes. It is the replacement for the popular ASPN Cookbooks (especially the Python Cookbook, which was a collaboration with O'Reilly and Associates that resulted in two print cookbooks using recipes from the site). The new site adds things like tagging, the ability to add recipes in a number of other languages, and a fresher and hopefully more usable site.
Migration should be easy. All recipes from the Python, Tcl and PHP Cookbooks have been carried over. Redirects maintain all old aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbooks links. Recipe id and author ids have been maintained. The ASPN Cookbook categories have been translated into tags in the new system -- full details here.
I welcome any feedback on the site.
0 commentsSwitching from ASPN Cookbooks to ActiveState Code today
We hope to be switching over from the ASPN Cookbooks to the new ActiveState Code site today. Please be patient if the site is down for a short while. We expect the process to take about an hour or two late this afternoon (PST).
I've had lots of good feedback from the Python community (Apologies if I haven't gotten back to you yet. I will.) and have made a number of changes based on that feedback. I'll post more details once the site has been switched over.
0 commentsTranslating Komodo on babelzilla.org
At the prompting of dafi (one of Komodo's more active users) and with goofy's help I've uploaded a Komodo Language Pack with Komodo's current en-US localization to BabelZilla.
We get requests for localizations of Komodo every so often, but lack the resources to do this ourselves. Given a number of good translations here, I can start providing language pack extensions to Komodo's add-ons site.
This is a trial balloon that I really hope turns out well. I remember having a great chat with Michal Berman about Mozilla's l10n infrastructure at FSSOS 2007 waaay back in October last year. I dropped that ball following up after that discussion. I'd also like to take a look at Launchpad Translations to see if that would work well.
If you are interested in helping out with translating Komodo to your language, please take a look at this forum thread and/or let me know (trentm at activestate dot com).
2 commentsActiveState Code: the new ASPN Cookbooks
ActiveState Code has been launched (in beta)! ActiveState Code is a new site that will be the eventual replacement of the venerable ASPN Cookbooks -- in particular the popular Python Cookbook.
What this site offers over the ASPN Cookbooks:
- a complete visual refresh (long overdue)
- full tagging support of recipes
- support for many many more languages (the ASPN Cookbooks were restricted to Python, PHP, Tcl and XSLT recipes)
In addition, the new site provides a sound foundation for other improvements -- so tell us what you think!. What is missing? What doesn't work? What would make the site more useful for you? for your community?
While the site is in beta, new recipes, comments and votes are not saved -- instead the site's data will be sync'd from the ASPN Cookbooks most nights. The plan is to fully move to this new site in two weeks, shutting down the old ASPN Cookbooks (redirects will preserve all old links).
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