Better late than never! From now on, all my recent open-source contributions will be available at my github.com account. The current projects are:

• ASP Xtreme Evolution (my ASP framework)
• Exuberant-ctags (updates to make it's ASP parsing better)
• Gedit-* (a lot of good things for gedit)
• GTKSourceView-2.0 (updates to add/enhance language.specs)
• jquery-vs-mootools (this one is an interesting article I translated)

Although this blog isn't being informative and updated as I think it should be, I'm currently very active and developing a lot of things but not writing much about it. Watching my git account will help you to keep the track of the latest updates in my software development. Enjoy!

Introduction

Sometime ago I spent a good amount of time playing with Wez Furlong PHPScript to merge PHP functionalities directly into ASP pages. Although it really can be done, I couldn't feel comfortable enough with the stability of the final application. In fact, the merge between PHP and other ASP languages (VBScript, Javascript, Ruby, Perl and Python) in the same script caused the application to work only in odd requests and not in even ones. Plus it was triggering processing errors in the server. This is incredibly strange and clearly shows that the Active Script port of PHP is flawed. It works fine for .wsc and other command lines things but not plays well with ASP.

Since PHP has a huge community which create really good things, it's interesting to get the benefits of their work in other environments that doesn't run the language. Two notable examples of the good things available in PHP are GeSHi, an incredible code highlighting extension that currently work with over than 130 languages, and Tidy, a nice extension to wrap and indent your XML and HTML. As we can't live without them, I've built the webservices for them both.

Today's geekherocomic.com strip came with an interesting news. It's Salvatore Iovene birthday! And the post was about the book his fiancée built with the last entire year strips archive. I really like this guy work, it's a funny part of my day and to celebrate this special occasion I created a gadget to all GeekHeroComic readers to monitor the latest strip directly from iGoogle homepage.

You can add it using:

Happy birthday @siovene! Keep doing this amazing work!

This plugin provides a faster and easier way to select the current document highlighting mode in gedit. Just press Ctrl+Shift+H, type the language and press Enter.

It's written in Python, so you don't have to compile anything or get any binary. The source is there for inspection and installation.

Everybody knows that when I’m at Windows my favorite editor is Notepad++. It’s an opensource source code ( opensource source code – I liked it! ) editor which supports serveral programming languages and has a bunch of interesting features like:

• Auto-completion
• Snippets
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace
• Plugins interface

Although it also support customized Syntax Highlighting there aren’t too many options available… But this ends today…

After some months working, finding and fixing bugs in the earlier version of ASP Xtreme Evolution, I’m proud to release the version 1.0.1.0. This is a very stable version. It comes with snippets to increase the productiveness and has some minor changes to help you to organize the code. I suggest those using the v.1.0.0.0 to upgrade as soon as possible. If you can’t upgrade, check the CHANGES in the Read More to fix your old version against the critical issues.

One week ago Digitarald released the version 2.0 beta 4 of his very good FancyUpload component. Unfortunately I’ve noticed that many ASP and ASP.NET users were falling in trouble to implement it. In this tutorial I’ll try to cover the key things to get it working. I’ll be also using this guide to introduce new comers to ASP Xtreme Evolution development process.