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Clever Title Case Perl Script

roger — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:05:31 +0000

John Gruber has released a clever Perl script that transforms selected text into title case (without simply capitalizing the first letter of each word as many so-called title case functions do).

The script uses a list of “small words” which are not capitalized based on guidelines from the New York Times Manual of Style.

It’s a Perl script, so save it as a text file and you can use it anywhere where Perl works. I use it as a system-wide service (with the shortcut Command-Shift-T) via Jesper’s excellent (and free) ThisService utility.

Thanks for a very useful addition to the writer’s toolbox!

Aptana Studio 1.0 Released

roger — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:35:11 +0000

The open source Web development environment formerly known as the Aptana IDE has been re-christened as “Aptana Studio” and released as Version 1.0.

As of v1.0, the Eclipse-based product has been split into two different “editions”. The Community Edition remains free, and a new Professional Edition has been introduced for commercial use with “priority” support and a few extra features such as FTPS and SFTP.

For details on the new release, see the Aptana blog.

Aptana Milestone 9 Released

roger — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:59:51 +0000

A new version of the Aptana Web IDE is now available with PHP support that includes Code Assist on PHP functions and parameters, improved PHP syntax colorization, and a PHP outliner. The JavaScript outliner and Ajax libraries have also been updated.

Details on changes are available in the Release Notes.