Aptana, founded by Paul Colton (pictured) announced the that the update to
Milestone 7 includes a number of debugger enhancements. Aptana is a robust
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically for web
developers who use (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Aptana comes prepackaged
with popular AJAX/JavaScript libraries. A large selection of screen shots
showcasing Aptana IDE features is avilable on
http://www.aptana.com/screenshots.html.
Aptana includes the following features:
* Full Code Assist on all Core and DOM JavaScript functionality
* Code structure outliner for (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (even all at the
same time)
* Errors and warnings across all 3 languages (code validation)
* Ability to extend the IDE via JavaScript with new 'Actions' and new 'Views'
* Support for Mac (Universal Binary) and Windows with Linux
* Free and open source
The update... (more)
Aptana has announced the general availability of Aptana Cloud, an online
service that integrates with Eclipse software development tools to enable
hosting, scaling and managing Web applications in "The Cloud".
Aptana Cloud provides an end-to-end solution for deploying, scaling, staging,
managing and monitoring your Web sites and Internet applications. You can
deploy to scalable open source application platforms including PHP, MySQL,
Apache and Aptana Jaxer. Scaling is as easy as moving a slider control to the
level of computational power and data storage you desire. Aptana Cloud's... (more)
Alan Williamson's Blog
The line between what is considered a cloud and what is paramount to hosting
is a blurry line at the best of times. What qualifies a companies offering as
a cloud based product offering? That is a question that is continually
debated in the cloud circles and no one has really yet to offer a real
concrete reason.
Setting aside all the marketing buzzwords that will get thrown in
"scalability" / "on-demand" / "deploy", a cloud offering has to deliver on
its hype.
For me when words like those are thrown around I want to see:
Scalability
The ability to start u... (more)
Aptana Journal launched today on Ulitzer. Aptana Studio is a complete web
development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a
collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and
your team do more, at www.aptana.com.
The editor of Aptana Journal, Kevin Hakman is Director of Evangelism for
Aptana, Inc., makers of the popular Aptana Studio web development suite. As
early as 2001 Kevin was pioneering AJAX web applications via General
Interface, a full AJAX development and GUI toolkit which he co-founded, and
later sold to TIBCO Software in 200... (more)
A few months ago I stumbled on an IDE named Aptana and I instantly recognized
that it was the perfect IDE for developers who have found it difficult to
convert to CFEclipse. And why is it such a great replacement?
For starters Aptana is actually based on Eclipse. That means it has all the
great features that you've heard of about Eclipse, including the ability to
use the CFEclipse plug-in with it. You can install CFEclipse the same way
you'd install it for Eclipse, and there's almost no difference in how it
works. (Figure 1)
But why is this any better than Eclipse? Well, the bigg... (more)