August 15, 2010
It's with great joy that I can now announce the final version of TSW WebCoder 2010. It has been betatested for 3 months now, and I believe it's ready for you today. While fixing the problems reported back by the awesome betatesters, I have also used the time to create a brand new website for WebCoder. It can be found at tswwebcoder.com, which will be the new home for WebCoder. Later on, I will release a new website for SiteSync as well, together with a maintenance release. In the meantime, tsware.net will still be online, mainly to serve the people looking for SiteSync. But enough about that, let's focus on WebCoder 2010. In case you haven't noticed, a lot of information has been posted during the development of this new application. Here's a list of blog posts that might interest you:
But hey, why not just give it a try? Hurry on over to tswwebcoder.com and click the big Download button!
If you have previously purchased a license to WebCoder 2009, phpCoder 2008 or WebPad.NET, I would like to offer you a 25% upgrade discount on WebCoder 2010. Simply visit the Buy now page, click the upgrade link in the top and use your previous order ID to get the discount.
As promised, 5 hard working betatesters will receive a free Professional license for WebCoder 2010. Here are the 5 people from the beta forum, who seems to have contributed the most during the beta phase (in no particular order, listed with their forum names):
- PugFish
- TEL0000
- Ulven
- s1tony
- TeWeE
Send me an e-mail through the contact form of this site, and I will make sure that you get your free license. A big thank you goes out to you and to all the other betatesters, you have done some great work. Thank you!
That's all I have for now. I hope you'll love this brand new version of WebCoder as much as I do and use it to make the web an even more amazing place. Enjoy! :)
Special note to people with a beta version installed: Unless you allow WebCoder to overwrite your previous settings, you may be missing out on certain fixes, since the final release usually comes with slightly modified data files, to fix issues from beta versions where these files are involved.
May 18, 2010
It's with great pride that I can finally present you with the very first beta version of TSW WebCoder 2010. If you have been following this blog, you already know that I created WebCoder 2010 by taking WebCoder 2009 and then adding the best from phpCoder 2008 and quite a bit of new features, to create the ultimate web editor. In case you missed all the information that has been posted about this new version of WebCoder, here is a list to catch up on:
Of course that's only the major additions. In fact, my TODO list currently consists of around 300 items, big and small, which have all been marked as done, so while this is beta and will contain bugs, it should be ready for actual use - I know I use it every day and have been for several months now :)
Download TSW WebCoder 2010 beta 1 - please provide feedback in the beta forum
So let the testing begin! I'm eager to hear what you think :)
May 11, 2010
In WebCoder 2009, I introduced the new Inspect mode. In WebCoder 2010, this function has been revamped and renamed to WebDebug and is now offering some pretty cool, new functionality. If you have ever used Firebug for the Firefox browser, you will probably recognize some of it, but in WebCoder you can use the same functionality with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. WebDebug is all about allowing you to see your websites in the internal preview browsers, while being able to make changes to the underlying HTML and CSS and see the result in realtime, and as shown in the demo video, you can even debug live websites and then have WebCoder upload the changes to your FTP server. So without further ado, here is a little video of the function in action and the very first glimpse of WebCoder 2010 in fullscreen. As you can see, I have hidden the top toolbars and side tool windows for this demo, to make room for properly showing you WebDebug:
Watch a video of the TSW WebCoder 2010 "WebDebug" in action
Please let me know what you think of this and be prepared, because the first beta version is getting close :)
March 5, 2010
In phpCoder 2008, the dropdown list in the top, listing classes, functions and variables, was introduced. In WebCoder 2009, the tag chain was introduced. In WebCoder 2010, the two functions have been combined and made context sensitive, so that they always show you relevant information, depending on which type of code you're editing. It works for PHP:
For JavaScript:
For HTML, where you get the tag chain:
And even for CSS, where selectors are divided up into elements, classes and ID's:
It only takes up ~24 pixels of your screen height, but can help you overlook and navigate your documents much faster, and if you don't agree, it can obviously be turned off.
Hope you like it :)
February 21, 2010
When I started the work on xCoder 2010 back in August 2009, I had no idea what the name would be. I didn't exactly call my project "xCoder" internally, but I did have another codename for it. I wasn't really sure what direction I should go, but I already had some ideas that I knew I wanted to do no matter what, so I started with those. The big question, put in my mind by several customers, was whether to combine phpCoder and WebCoder or keep them as separate products, and if they should be combined, which name should be used? With the feedback from the xCoder 2010 forum, as well as feedback obtained from a range of trusted customers, I slowly made the decision: I wanted one application with the best from both worlds, mainly because people seemed to be bothered by the fact that they had to choose between two applications. My initial idea was to use a brand new name for this merged application, but I'm simply to fond of the WebCoder name to let it go. In other words, xCoder 2010 will be TSW WebCoder 2010, with the very best from phpCoder 2008 and WebCoder 2009 and a range of new stuff as well! I think this is what people want, and the more I think of it, it's what I want as a webdeveloper too.
This has all been very theoretic, but I promise that in my next post, I will start to show you some of the new goodies from WebCoder 2010. Stay tuned :)
February 16, 2010
The xCoder process has already been long. I asked for your input a couple of months ago, but I had actually done quite a bit of work before that as well. Instead of doing long stretches of work on the application and then releasing it as beta, I have done it differently this time. I have spent shorter periods of time developing the application, and in between those, I have used it extensively for various web projects and written down all the bugs I found and the ideas I came up with. This led to a pretty big TODO list of both small and bigger items, and each time I implemented a bunch of the changes, I came up with even more stuff that I wanted to do. This has been going on since August 2009 where I first stated the xCoder project, and since the new version is built on top of WebCoder 2009 code, the entire time has been used to add new features and perhaps more importantly: improve the old ones. Today, my TODO list has surpassed 200 changes, and most of them has already been implemented! Hopefully this will bring you the best web editor ever, and I'm already very excited to show it to you.
In the following weeks, I will tell you much more about this new application, which brings lots of positive changes to the world. In the meantime, while we wait for the beta, I urge you to participate in the xCoder 2010 forum. Let me know what you would like to see improved or added, so we can get it in there before the first beta version. As you can see, lots of users have already provided their feedback, and several requests have already been fulfilled. Thank you and stay tuned! :)
March 25, 2009
Final beta 5 has just been released, with the latest bugfixes reported by the users.
As stated in a previous post, I would like to give away a free commercial TSW WebCoder 2009 license to the 5 most active betatesters once the final version has been released. I hope that this will motivate you even more, so that the final product can be as bug free as possible!
Download TSW WebCoder 2009 final beta 5 - please provide feedback in the beta forum
In case you're wondering what's new in WebCoder 2009, I urge you to read all the posts I have written on the progress of this new version. They will give you a lot of details on most of the new functionality. For a complete list of blog posts, use this link.
Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you might want to wait for the final version, although this beta version is pretty darn close :)
March 17, 2009
Final beta 4 is here. It comes with a limited amount of bugfixes, which is a good thing. The final version is getting very close :)
As stated in a previous post, I would like to give away a free commercial TSW WebCoder 2009 license to the 5 most active betatesters once the final version has been released. I hope that this will motivate you even more, so that the final product can be as bug free as possible!
Download TSW WebCoder 2009 final beta 4 - please provide feedback in the beta forum
In case you're wondering what's new in WebCoder 2009, I urge you to read all the posts I have written on the progress of this new version. They will give you a lot of details on most of the new functionality. For a complete list of blog posts, use this link.
Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you might want to wait for the final version, although this beta version is pretty darn close :)
March 1, 2009
Yet another beta version has landed, and it seems that we're getting really close to a final, stable release, because the amount of bugs reported have dropped dramatically. Please download the latest beta version and be sure to report any problems you might find.
As stated in a previous post, I would like to give away a free commercial TSW WebCoder 2009 license to the 5 most active betatesters once the final version has been released. I hope that this will motivate you even more, so that the final product can be as bug free as possible!
Download TSW WebCoder 2009 final beta 3 - please provide feedback in the beta forum
In case you're wondering what's new in WebCoder 2009, I urge you to read all the posts I have written on the progress of this new version. They will give you a lot of details on most of the new functionality. For a complete list of blog posts, use this link.
Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you might want to wait for the final version, although this beta version is pretty darn close :)
February 10, 2009
Final beta 2 of WebCoder 2009 is finally here :). A bunch of bugs have been fixed, and I feel that we're getting closer to the final release. Keep up the good work, so we can nail the remaining ones.
As stated in a previous post, I would like to give away a free commercial TSW WebCoder 2009 license to the 5 most active betatesters once the final version has been released. I hope that this will motivate you even more, so that the final product can be as bug free as possible!
Download TSW WebCoder 2009 final beta 2 - please provide feedback in the beta forum
In case you're wondering what's new in WebCoder 2009, I urge you to read all the posts I have written on the progress of this new version. They will give you a lot of details on most of the new functionality. For a complete list of blog posts, use this link.
Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.
