July 2010
"The Developer News"
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Intro from the CEO:
Welcome to our
July Edition
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From the COO:
Temps soar alongside
HOT deals
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Support Notes:
Tagged in a Web Application
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Customer Center
Importance of
Registering Multiple Licences
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Multi-Edit Partner:
Programmer's Paradise
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Built with Multi-Edit:
Highway Hotties
Introduction from the CEO
Hello and welcome to July's Developer News!
- Chad Williams
Mr. Brown has all the latest updates on our current Multi-Editx progress as well as providing users with a Sizzling Summer Discount offer. Be sure to read his article if you've been waiting to purchase. This will be your last opportunity to purchase Multi-Edit 2008 at a discounted rate with the included 'FREE UPGRADE' credit to Multi-Editx!
Recently our support staff experienced a case where an end user within a corporation received a new system and was seeking to reinstall their copy of Multi-Edit. Unfortunately we had no specific end user registrations, only a block of licenses. This proved to be a bit frustrating for the end user as well as for Michele in our sales/customer service department. Help Michele, help you better by reading her article and taking action!
In this edition we are also taking a moment to highlight another site 'built with ME'. This month help ME in welcoming one of our newest 'Built with Multi-Edit' submissions; Highway Hotties. Be sure to check out our 'Built with Multi-Edit' topic for all the details and sign up today for a new way to network!
Wanting to have your Multi-Edit work highlighted in coming issues? Send your site information to sales@multieditsoftware.com for review. If you are selected for a Developer News issue, you'll be contacted for content and placement review prior to send.
Until next time,
Chad Williams, CEO
Multi Edit Software, Inc.
chadw@multieditsoftware.com
From the COO:
- Brenton E. Brown
This month I'd like to take some time to discuss our current progress on Multi-Editx. I'd like to first begin with a HEARTY THANKS to our development team who has been working hard to finalize this build. Despite having encountered some unforeseen hurdles, we've managed to persevere! I'm happy to say that we are coming closer each week to readying our Beta phase for delivery. I hope to be able to provide you, our Beta applicants, with information regarding this testing phase late next month.
Temperatures are SOARING here in the Southwest and I decided there couldn't be a better time to offer one final chance at some HOT savings! Purchase your copy of Multi-Edit within the next two weeks and receive 25% off EVERY Multi-Edit title!
Enter 'SIZZLING' in the 'Promotional' field
at the bottom of the product selection pageRemember, all Multi-Edit 2008 purchases at this time provide a Free Upgrade to the NEW Multi-Editx currently in development!
Once again, a big thanks to all those of you who have made Multi-Edit your 'editor of choice' for over 30 years and counting!
Brenton E. Brown, COO
Multi Edit Software, Inc.
brentonb@multieditsoftware.com
From the Support Desk
- Clay Martin
If you work on web sites (keep reading this for other languages also), eventually a customer will want a forum, calendar or blog. There are lots of PHP code, free and not, that can help provide your customer what they want, especially if you don't want to write it from scratch. Many of these applications are well written and depend on libraries of functions to get things done. But they are not your code. They have a style, but it is not yours. And eventually the customer will want a customization that can't be provided through the applications control panel or option settings.
ME Tags can help you out. Place a copy of the web application's code in your project at the same relative location as it is on the web server. Then add all the .php files to your project with the Add Files Wizard (right click on the root of the project's directory in the project pane). After all the php files have been added to the project, open the Tags Pane with View-Tags. Then click on the 4th button (Scan Project) over from the left in the Tags Pane or use the Tags menu.
Ok, how do we use this? As you are pouring through the web application's code, looking for where to make that modification, you will run into calls to functions. You need to know what they do, or if they may be the place to make the change. A lot of the free web applications (and some you pay for) don't have a lot of low-level documentation, except as comments. So seeing the code that is being called, really helps understanding the original programmer's intent. Lets say you have a line of code like this:
$ffForm->formFields["description"]->setError("Missing Description");
You can place your cursor on the "setError" function name and right click to get the context menu. Then select Find tag under the cursor. If the coding is linear, ME will open the file containing the function, and place your cursor at the declaration. If the code is object oriented (OO), there may be many instances where the function is declared (over ridden), once in each object. ME will give you a list of places where the functions are defined. You can then select the one object on which you are working.
Speaking of Object Oriented code, if you are defining your own extension of an object, you may need to chase back through numerous extensions to see what functions are ok and what you need to override. So if you are looking at a line like this:
class YearField extends DropDownField
You can place your cursor on DropDownField, right click and select Find tag under cursor. ME will open the file that the DropDownField class is declared in and place your cursor right on the declaration. If it was extended, then you can do the same thing to hop to its ancestor.
ME Tags can even help in the debugging process. In the Tag pane the upper list shows all the files in your project. Clicking on one of these will show, in the lower list, all the scanned functions, procedures or classes declared in that file. You can then click on the function name to hop directly to it. Between right clicking on function calls in your code, or using the Tag pane you can quickly traverse your code base.
Of course ME Tags is not just for PHP files. If you are working with large libraries of classes, functions or procedures for most languages, Multi-Edit has support for scanning that language for tags. You can determine if ME Tags are supported for a particular language by going to Tools-Customize-Languages, select the language and press the Edit button. In the lower left of the dialog there is a field labeled FindTag: if there is a macro listed there, then that language has ME Tags support.
Clay Martin, Technical Support
Multi Edit Software, Inc.
support@multieditsoftware.comInput Your Suggestions in the Forum:
http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=7**Please note that you can review/search through all forum topics,
but to submit a post you must register on the forums.
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Programmer’s Paradise is a reseller of select, quality computing products and services to software developers and other IT professionals. Leveraging our relationships with all the leading hardware and software vendors enables us to build best-of-breed solutions that provide optimal return on your investment.
Give us a call and we will discuss what we can do to help your business.
Visit:
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or Call 1-800-441-1511Programmer's Paradise, Inc.
1157 Shrewsbury Ave.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702-4321
Telephone: 800-441-1511
Fax: (732) 460-9317
Customer Service
- Michele Hegwood
Another "How To Tip"
Please take a moment to register your product, especially if you or your company is an owner of multiple licenses. All too often I am contacted w/ a request for an end-users serial code information along w/ a new download installation only to find that that person or company is not properly registered, therefore I am only able to provide them a minimal amount of information & support. In the case of multiple-license ownership, if the end-user does not register the license in which they are using, I will have no way to determine which license belongs to that person. So in the case where I am contacted by a company's admin or secretary trying to retrieve the serial code & download information for a particular user, & the only record I have is the original purchase information, it then becomes their responsibility to determine which of the multiple licenses belongs to which end-users. And in many cases the company owns too many to track down, or may have multiple office locations making it a very difficult task for that person trying to determine who in their company is using which serial code.
Also, customer service & support needs, frequently require us to locate your purchase information & product license numbers. If you purchased through a reseller, it is unlikely we will have your information in our system, & if you lose your license, we will have no record of your ownership.
Overall, the most important reason for proper registration is to ensure you receive the highest quality of support from ME. When contacting ME w/ any type of challenge, question, or concern, my first line of action is to establish you as a registered client. In turn, this expedites the support you receive. So I ask, help me to help you by helping me… simply register your product.
Always at your service and available for any questions,
Michele Hegwood
Multi Edit Software, Inc.
Michele Hegwood: sales@multieditsoftware.com
Built with Multi-Edit Highlight
Highway Hotties is the latest addition to social networking!
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- No more missed business connections!
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