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The Aptana IDE for Ajax Development

Issue 157

From Issue #157
May 2007

May 01, 2007  By Ben Martin
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Aptana is a mixed-content IDE for Web development.

Summary

The Debatable:

  • The use of Eclipse can be a polarizing factor.

The Good:

  • The syntax highlighting and completion works well across HTML, CSS and JavaScript mixed content.

  • Setting breakpoints and stepping around JavaScript code running in a Firefox browser launched from Aptana.

The Bad:

  • Using Aptana breakpoint debugging with Ajax XMLHttpRequest calls is not simple.

  • Sometimes things become a little slow, even on grunty hardware.

  • Debug mode sometimes requires that you restart Aptana to recover.

Resources

Aptana: www.aptana.com

Aptana Screen Casts: www.aptana.tv

Fedora Eclipse: sources.redhat.com/eclipse

Linux Installation Issues: www.aptana.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=134

Installing Aptana on Linux: www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Installing_Aptana_on_Linux

Mozilla Issue and Aptana: www.aptana.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=169&view=next

Tutorials: www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Aptana_Tutorials

Using the Ajax Monitor View (although there's no information about getting around the permission problem for Aptana Web server sessions): www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Using_the_AJAX_Monitor_View

Interview with Paul Colton, Founder of Aptana: playbacktime.com/2006/08/30/interview-paul-colton-founder-of-aptana-ajax-web20

Ben Martin has been working on filesystems for more than ten years. He is currently working toward a PhD on combining Semantic Filesystems with Formal Concept Analysis to improve human-filesystem interaction.

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