.:Computer Defense:.

Odd Title... but it's 3:30am.

The first thing I wanted to mention was KiTTY ( via /dev/random). It's a fork of PuTTY, which is nice given PuTTY is on a rather slow development cycle, and new features are almost non-existent. Some of the features include folders within the saved sessions box (although, not implemented as "friendly" as they could be), transparency (this didn't work for me), login scripts (also didn't work for me) and integrated scp support. The features list is actually quite a bit longer than that, feel free to read it on the KiTTY website. As mentioned, a number of the features didn't work for me. I'm going to give it a try on a second computer before I rule it out, but I wanted to mention it now. A second bad experience would most likely lead to me never using it or mentioning it here, and it may work wonderfully for others.

The second thing I wanted to mention is that Komodo Edit 5.0 (the free version of Komodo IDE) is now available. Some of the biggest things are limited to Komodo IDE unfortunately, such as Source Code Checkout capabiliies and the ability to "beautify" your code. It does provide some UI clean-up and an update to Firefox 3.0 in the Edit version though.

One of the problems that I had was that my favourite plugin, Sourcetree ended up attached to the left pane instead of the right pane, which is very unnatural to me. It took me a couple of hours, but I dove into plugins for the first time, opening the jar file and pulling out the javascript. After I tracked down the name of the two panes online (not easily documented), I was able to modify the code and re-archive it. If anyone wants a step by step, or just my modified file, let me know.