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Komodo IDE Demonstrates Advanced Code Management and Development  
Capabilities

Portland's Second Story Develops Online Database for the National  
Postal Museum Using ActiveState's Komodo IDE

PORTLAND, Ore.--ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and  
services for dynamic languages, released a case study today at OSCON  
in Portland that highlights how Second Story Interactive Studios, a  
Portland-based studio that creates innovative user experiences, used  
Komodo IDE to simplify a complex code management and development  
project.

Komodo IDE is a multi-platform, multi-language integrated development  
environment (IDE) for dynamic web development.

Second Story was recently tasked with creating Aragoâ?¢, an online  
database for the National Postal Museum that would amass their  
collection of over 300,000 objects and present them in a user- 
friendly interface. With elaborate data import scripts to translate  
data from a third-party collection management tool, all the logic  
involved in managing researcher contributions, and the website  
itself, it was a large and complicated project.

â??I found out about Komodo at OSCON 2005 and was very impressed by  
what I saw; it was the perfect tool for the job,� said David Brewer,  
a web application developer with Second Story who specializes in  
building back-ends and HTML interfaces for collection database websites.

Komodo offered Brewer and other developers at Second Story syntax  
highlighting and syntax checking that made it easier to spot typos  
before they turned into bugs, while the debugger tracked down more  
subtle problems. The code browser and bookmark features simplified  
locating code to reference and jump back to it as needed, and, using  
the Perl interactive shell for quick hacks and testing and creating  
regular expressions with the Rx Toolkit, made development faster as  
well. Project management features also proved invaluable.

â??Komodo solved so many of the problems we struggled with when using  
less capable tools,â? said Brewer. â??Developing Perl in Komodo IDE was  
an absolute joy compared to our previous approaches.�

ActiveState is featuring Komodo IDE, the developers' tool of choice  
at Second Story, at OSCON.

Read the complete case story at http://www.activestate.com/Products/ 
komodo_ide/case_study.plex and see the amazing results of Second  
Story's work at http://arago.si.edu/ or http://www.secondstory.com/.

Komodo IDE

Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for  
end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes  
creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for  
client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML,  
coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl,  
PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Komodo IDE licenses are $295 US for use  
across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Learn more about Komodo IDE at  
http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide.

About ActiveState

ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic  
languages such as JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl.  
Millions of developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform,  
professional development tools, high-quality language distributions,  
and enterprise services. ActiveState is owned by its employees and  
Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused  
on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia. Learn more  
at http://www.activestate.com.

About Second Story

Second Story creates informative and entertaining interactive  
experiences in the form of media-rich storytelling presentations,  
online collections, interpretive installations, and database-driven  
applications.

Since its founding in 1994, the Second Story team of creative  
artists, producers, writers, animators, and programmers has developed  
over 200 award-winning interactive projects. The studio takes pride  
in providing clear and intuitive access to archives, artifacts, and  
information as well as staging compelling narratives using digital  
media, both online and in situated kiosks and presentations. Learn  
more at http://www.secondstory.com.

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respective owners. 
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