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PHP: Problem With Displaying French Accented Characters; black diamond…

If you have this problem and your accented characters are being replaced by black diamonds with question marks in them and you tried EVERYTHING you could find and nothing worked and no one seems to know what’s going on and you think it’s PHP or Apache that is causing this issue and you tried changing their configuration directives and you are pulling your hair out then this could be your editor!

Go to it’s preferences, most of them have a section for font encoding, for example in Komodo Edit, go to:

Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Under the Fonts tab > There is the font encoding, choose UTF-8

After this step you might have to change the encoding of the current file, again most editors should be able to do this, refer to your editor’s docs for more info on this, but here is how to do this in Komodo Edit:

Open File > Edit > Current File Settings > In File Settings Box > Change Encoding To UTF-8 > Save

and Voila!

PHP: Problem With Displaying French Accented Characters; black diamond…
Comments (1)   Filed under: Komodo Edit,PHP,Web Design,Web Development   Posted by: Codehead

The Best Overall Code Editor Ever: Komodo Edit

A while back I wrote a post about what I think is the best Python code editor but I decided to write an update and write a little more about Komodo Edit…

I use Dreamweaver to write HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP code and a few days ago I decided to open Komodo Edit and see how it does with PHP.

I did try other editors for PHP but their support for HTML and CSS was lame and I’m so used to Dreamweaver’s comprehensive code completion features.

Well, I was surprised that Komodo Edit has all those features (& more) and handles PHP/CSS/HTML/JavaScript beatuifully, open a new PHP file and after ?> type:

<a

And then hit space, it will suggest everything Dreamweaver suggests and more! then write:

style=”

And again it will suggest every CSS property, then type:

:

It will suggest all the possible values, more than Dreamweaver…

The other thing is that it will show you function descriptions for all the functions and that could be very handy.

I have to say that I don’t know if I’m going to pay for Dreamweaver ever again and if you are looking for a free and excelent code editor, try Komodo Edit.

I have no affiliation with ActiveState and what I said above is my personal thoughts and ideas and an attempt to show this excellent/free/open-source product to others.

Happy Coding.

The Best Overall Code Editor Ever: Komodo Edit
Comments (1)   Filed under: CSS,HTML/XHTML,JavaScript,Komodo Edit,PHP,Web Design,Web Development   Posted by: Codehead

The Best Python Code Editor: Komodo Edit

I looked for a Python editor a lot, I found Pydev which is a plugin for Eclipse and since Eclipse sucks, it’s ugly and the code looks ugly too, it just kills my creativity, it’s also slow on top of that.

Then I found IronPython plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio, this one requires Visual Studio which is paid and it doesn’t make your life easier, for example if I have:

def some_func():
   pass

Now, after “pass” if I hit “Enter” I want to get back to the beginning of the next line but this wasn’t happening in IronPython. (+ a bunch of other things)

I guess I got spoiled because I use Dreamweaver to write PHP and it just does everything as you expect, it’s smooth and well thought out, much like other Macromedia products; take Fireworks for example, those who use Fireworks and Photoshop know the brilliance behind the design of Fireworks’s UI… Why didn’t Macromedia buy Adobe?!

Anyway, if you are like me and feel the same way, try Komodo Edit. I have nothing to do with it or ActiveState but I have to say that this editor made my life so much easier and I’m not looking back. It also has support for a bunch of other languages like PHP etc.

EDIT: So after using this great text editor for a little while, I decided to write a quick list of pros and cons:

Pros:
1 – It’s free.
2 – It’s open-source.
3 – It’s nice looking. (I care about this, I’m convinced that it effects creativity…)
4 – It’s smooth and fast.
5 – It does what you expect it to do; very intuitive.
6 – It’s written by people who love writing code.
7 – It’s cross-platform.
8 – It supports: PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django.
9 – It supports code completion.
10 – It has great help and docs.

Cons:
None.

Happy Coding…

The Best Python Code Editor: Komodo Edit
Comments (5)   Filed under: Annoying Stuff,IDEs,PHP,Programming,Python,Web Development   Posted by: Codehead

Eclipse “Launch Failed. Binary Not Found.” and Netbeans

Last night I needed a C++ IDE right away; I had Eclipse for writing Python and knew that it had a C/C++ extension called CDT.

So I installed this CDT and I also had MingW and Cygwin installed but the only project I could compile was the sample Hello World project.

Whenever I made an empty project, Eclipse responded with “Launch Failed. Binary Not Found.”.

I read a few articles online but no luck and I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on it so I decided to try Netbeans.

After I installed Netbeans, BAM, it detected Cygwin and compiled everything right away!!!

That is what I wanted, I wanted an IDE that I can just make a CPP file and compile without any extra steps and Netbeans did that for me!

I’m not a C++ or Eclipse guru but I’m a normal user who is searching for simplicity and doesn’t have a lot of time to waste on things like this.

Update:

Read the comments bellow for some possible solutions…

Eclipse “Launch Failed. Binary Not Found.” and Netbeans
Comments (84)   Filed under: C Programming,IDEs,Programming   Posted by: Codehead