What’s new in Dreamweaver CS5.5

Some product releases are revolutionary, and some are evolutionary. It’s a bit more rare that they can be both. Whereas the Dreamweaver CS5.5 release may seem simply evolutionary given the “point-five” version number, the features contained within are highly focused to help you spark your own project-based multiscreen revolution, while only requiring a minor evolutionary shift in the Dreamweaver workflows and your own, finely-honed skills as a web pro. With HTML5 and CSS3 driving a new level of cross-device consistency—as well as adding significant new media and design capabilities independently—Dreamweaver CS 5.5 support for both will help you take your projects to a new level, regardless of whether you’re starting with an existing project that needs to become mobile application aware, or diving in on a mobile-specific site or application from scratch.

Bird Eye Overview:

CSS3 and HTML5 authoring

jQuery Mobile integration

Native mobile apps (for iOS and Android) with PhoneGap

But wait, there’s more…

CodeIgniter Skeleton Generator

You like CodeIgniter or not but if you use it for web development this handy utility will save you some time. Initially developed for internal use so if you feel no customization/template’s  option please bear with me :)

Keep in mind that you must have installed .NET Framework on local machine to execute these bits, unlikely if you don’t have it yet this link will help you to get there..

How to use:
It’s pretty simple after download open this app, click first button ‘Select Application Folder‘ and choose your ‘application‘ folder within your CodeIgniter folder e.g:

X:\Path\to\WebServer\htdocs\codeigniter\application

Ones you did this correctly it’ll show you other relevant paths, check model and view option as per your needs enter desired controller/file name click ‘Do It!‘  button that’s it requested file with initial code has been generated.

Feel free to comment/report bugs.

Having screenshot is good idea so here it comes:

Programming Community Index for February 2011

February Headline: C# and Python are closing the gap on PHP

The rise of C# and Python are continuing in 2011. Both languages scored another old-time high this month and are now busy with overtaking PHP. Other interesting news is that we started to add results of Chinese search engine Baidu and reintroduced Yahoo!. These search engines now only count for 3% each until all false positives have been weeded out. This change has already some effect: JavaScript is back in the top 10 while SAS and Transact-SQL both lost much ground.

The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.

Position
Feb 2011		 Position
Feb 2010		 Delta in Position Programming Language Ratings
Feb 2011		 Delta
Feb 2010		 Status
1 1 Java 18.482% +1.13% A
2 2 C 14.986% -1.62% A
3 4 C++ 8.187% -1.26% A
4 7 Python 7.038% +2.72% A
5 3 PHP 6.973% -3.03% A
6 6 C# 6.809% +1.79% A
7 5 (Visual) Basic 4.924% -2.13% A
8 12 Objective-C 2.571% +0.79% A
9 10 JavaScript 2.558% -0.08% A
10 8 Perl 1.907% -1.69% A
11 11 Ruby 1.615% -0.82% A
12 - Assembly* 1.269% - A-
13 9 Delphi 1.060% -1.60% A
14 19 Lisp 0.956% +0.39% A
15 37 NXT-G 0.849% +0.58% A–
16 30 Ada 0.805% +0.44% A–
17 17 Pascal 0.735% +0.13% A
18 21 Lua 0.714% +0.21% A–
19 13 Go 0.707% -1.07% A–
20 32 RPG (OS/400) 0.626% +0.27% A–

More details can be found on TIOBE Index here