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.

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.

I’ve created a SVN for ASP Xtreme Evolution at DevjaVu so, everyone interested in this project can now use a subversion client like Tortoise to checkout the lastest version of the project. Users can also post new tickets and give suggestions through the trac. I hope that this initiative make a more Open Source face to ASP Xtreme Evolution Framework and make it ready for other developers to join the work.

There are times in the life when you realise that the world has really changed and the things that was once so important to you doesn’t matter anymore. This is the case of my old dithered-extended quirksmode javascript library. It cost me years to enhance and extend but nothing more makes sense in a better standardized world.

After reading http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972323.aspx and Why String Operations are so Slow, possessed by a deep feeling of duty, I’ve wrote a class that would help developers to handle their string concatenation processes in a smart way.

Our business partner Clear Sale is a company specialized in behavior scoring. They withhold the major brazilian e-commerce shops as their customers. With their system, you can share a risk database with players like Submarino, Americanas and others. This database only goal is to be a source for an assertive score about the risk of a received order from your shop be or not a fraud.

The class.clearsale.asp is a Classic ASP class which provides a complete integration with their current web service. It’s licensed under the MIT License and anyone interested in using it is welcome.

Very often you need a consistent and coherent pattern to take the best of a technology can provide with the maximum productivity, yet you must respect the history involved around this technology to make it compliant with the legacy environment turning your application accessible and easy of adaptation.

This is when things like color palettes, code snippets and good pratices like name conventions becomes handy. I’ll be adding some useful, at least for me, things here to share to anyone interested. Currently you can find there just two color palettes and some snippets. But i’ll be adding more things as soon as I can.

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