Aptana Studio Profession 1.5 on Windows Vista
Two important upgrades occurred at the office in the recent weeks. The first was the release of the latest version of Aptana Studio (1.5) codenamed Andretti, which was built on top of the latest Eclipse open source build. The second was an office upgrade to Windows Vista.
The upgrade to Aptana Studio 1.5 was not as smooth as we would have hoped. It required a complete reinstall. There was no upgrade option available because of the differences between the underlying Eclipse builds. We had to first uninstall the previous version of Aptana Studio and then reinstall the new one. Once reinstalled, we needed to reinstall all of the plugins and then reconfigure the workspaces since the newer version reset all the windows and views.
Unfortunately that wasn't the end of it. Several weeks later there was a 1.5.1 upgrade that also required a manual configuration and upgrade since the upgrade functionality was one of the pieces that was broken and needed to be fixed.
Once fully upgraded you don't really notice a difference between the new version and the older one with the exception of the plugin installation process. The program is actually slower to load than it was previously.
On the plus side, PyDev is finally fully integrated as a plugin without requiring separate configurations, and it even has Google App Engine integration for Python projects.
On top of the upgrade of Aptana Studio, we also elected to upgrade our systems to Windows Vista in anticipation of a company wide upgrade to Windows 7 in October. Despite the numerous complaints from people, with a powerful enough system (4 GB RAM, Dual Core Processor), Vista runs very smoothly and the changes from XP to Vista are improvements - even if they require a little learning to get the hang of.
Despite a few hiccups, our office systems are now running the latest OS and programming IDE for the work we do. Vista and Aptana Studio are definitely a winning combination for us.
