Aptana Journal

 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 up a new instance programmatically via an API, allowing me to hook into whatever trigger metrics I may have. So if traffic reaches a new level, throw more resources/machines at it without doing any... (more)

Aptana PHP with AJAX and Cloud Computing Features

Aptana has launched the 1.0 version of Aptana PHP, an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP application development. Aptana PHP extends Aptana Studio, the Eclipse-based IDE for AJAX and Web development that is on track to exceed 2.8 million downloads before year-end. Aptana PHP features code assist and instant syntax checking features simultaneously support PHP, AJ... (more)

Aptana Journal Launched on Ulitzer

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 developm... (more)

Aptana Releases Jaxer 1.0 AJAX Server

Aptana has announced the 1.0 release of Aptana Jaxer and the introduction of Jaxer Pro, both "AJAX servers" that let developers create entire web applications using the ubiquitous set of languages common to web browsers: JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML. To achieve this, Jaxer embeds the open source Mozilla Firefox browser engine within a server so that developers can have the same executi... (more)

Aptana Unveils Cloud Integration for Java and Eclipse

Aptana has announced the immediate availability of Java support in its application hosting and life-cycle management service, Aptana Cloud Connect. Aptana Cloud Connect is architected to integrate with both cloud hosting providers and Aptana Studio, the open source web development IDE that also plugs into Eclipse. By integrating directly with Eclipse via Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud Conne... (more)