After trying Sublime Text 2 for a day I’ve already fallen in love with its simple but elegant interface. I’m generally a fairly happy user of Komodo IDE but don’t really like is klunky interface and occasional crashes and its often slow response. What I do like about Komodo is its ability to scan through your project and provide autocomplete suggestions, something that Sublime Text 2 doesn’t do.

So I decided to write a script to fill some of this gap in Sublime Text 2. The script simply scans through a specified directory and creates a json formatted sublime-completions file from all the functions it finds.

Ever wanted to alter the output of a date field in Views beyond what a custom date format can do? I needed to be able to show a node’s created date formatted in two different ways depending on whether the date is today or before today: All nodes in my view with a created date of today should only show the time posted, while nodes older than today should show the full date and time posted.

Just trying out Komodo 6's new Database Explorer and came across the usual error when trying to access MAMP's mysql through a socket due to its location not being the expected /tmp/mysql.sock. One of the usual solutions for this kind of problem is to symlink MAMP's mysql.sock to /tmp/ but I don't really like that due to having to redo it on restarts.

Instead, when you set up your MySQL database connection in Komodo, simply enter the full path to the socket file in the Hostname field, like so: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

Job done.