Unsuccessful is…

Today my planet.mozilla feed contains a post from ActiveState’s technical leader Shane Caraveo.

Shane’s post title is “Success is…” where incidentally speaks about my VisualDiffer, he tries to define success from different points of view.

I think his team success arrives from good (and very hard) work.

Now I try to define unsuccessful from my personal point of view.

Unsuccessful is

when you born in wrong place at right time

when you work with stupid people, in stupid companies

when you must leave a software company unable to help you to work better

when smart developers find your work interesting but you can’t work with them

have a blog with two visits per month

speak (or write) a bad english

VisualDiffer: a new Komodo extension

When I migrated to Ubuntu I loose some important developer tools like UltraEdit and Beyond Compare two closed-source commercial applications representing the state-of-art like editor and file comparator.

I’ve created MoreKomodo (the original name was UltraKomodo ) to add to KomodoEdit the UltraEdit features I need.

Folders and files comparison tools under Gnome are poor so I’ve decided to create my own differ application based on KomodoEdit for at least three reasons

KomodoEdit is open source

KomodoEdit is XUL based so I can develop re-using my know-how

KomodoEdit is multiplatform (thanks to Mozilla Gecko Engine)

Finally I’ve finished the first stable version of VisualDiffer, it misses many features but I hope to add them.