I’m writing a tokenizer in Python and found out a great GUI debugger for Regular Expression. For all of you that have been looking for a good Python Regular Expression GUI, you can depend on this - named Kodos:

Kodos is a Python GUI utility for creating, testing and debugging regular
expressions for the Python programming language. Kodos should aid any
developer to efficiently and effortlessly develop regular expressions in
Python. Since Python’s implementation of regular expressions is based on
the PCRE standard, Kodos should
benefit developers in other programming languages that also adhere to the
PCRE standard (Perl, PHP, etc…).

You can download and try it here

I found a great editor for AIML, if you are tired of working with plain xml file then this is the best tool out there for creating aiml file. And best of all, it’s free

GaitoBot AIML Editor - With the GaitoBot AIML editor you are able to produce correct AIML fast and easy. Using the innovative built in workflow viewer you keep the overview even with larger projects. 

You can find it here

I’ve been using E-TextEditor for a long time on Windows XP, everything was fine until I installed it on my Dell’s Windows Vista, PHP functions seems to be missing because I couldn’t use it to validate my syntax, E-TextEditor just hangs forever. The cause is that I don’t have php with the installation of Cygwin. So here is the solution:

+ Run cygwin setup again

+ Add ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports to the server list

+ Select PHP from the repository and start installing