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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
How to Make a License Manager Sound Sexy
Licensing: there’s just nothing sexy about it. It is a reality in the software business, like deadlines and defects. After years of using a third-party license manager, we decided to write our own License Manager. The old one worked reasonably well, but the company tried to gouge us when we wanted to add two new [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in SlickEdit Products by Scott Westfall
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Hey! Where are all the features?
SlickEdit 2011 is an unusual release. Typically, a release contains a good number of new features that enhance your ability to edit source code. This year, the words “updated” and “enhancements” play more prominently in the list: 64-bit Versions for Linux and Windows Multithreading the Context Tagging Engine and Auto-Reload Support for Ruby Debugging Support [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Code Editors,Productivity,SlickEdit Products by Scott Westfall
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Key Binding, Command, Menu: The Golden Triangle
To borrow a phrase from Mr. Jinks[i], “I hate meeses to pieces”. Before you call the SPCA, let me be clear that I’m talking about computer mice and not Mus musculus, the common household mouse. Further, I should narrow my context to that of programming because in many other areas of computing the mouse is [...]
