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Aptana Studio Profession 1.5 on Windows Vista

by Michael on 2009-08-22 11:00:43 tags: aptana studio, google app engine, windows 7, 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 ...

Aptana Studio's Nokia WRT Plugin

by Michael on 2009-05-08 09:47:09 tags: aptana, nokia

A few months ago I was invited to view a webcast of the Nokia WRT plugin for Aptana Studio. At first I was skeptical. The last thing I needed was to learn another programming language for mobile devices. Upon getting involved in the webcast, however, I learned that the Nokia WRT is web standards-based and not based on some proprietary programming language.

While everybody is all "ga-ga" over the iPhone and iPhone SDK development, Nokia decided to base their development in a similar vein to Adobe AIR - HTML, CSS & JavaScript. That alone is extremely refreshing for any software development company ...

Installing Aptana Jaxer with Apache VirtualHosts

by Michael on 2008-12-15 12:09:46 tags: apache, aptana jaxer, javascript, virtualhost

Aptana's Jaxer is a server side JavaScript framework that allows you to code entire applications (frontend and backend) in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, while using AJAX to postback data from JavaScript events. Sound interesting? We thought so too so we went about installing Jaxer on our server. We realized right away that the default installation wasn't going to work for us, as we wanted to integrate things directly with our current Apache configuration. After some searching and trial and error, we managed to get the setup to work the way we wanted it.

So here you go:

We ...

Software Development: Aptana Studio 1.2

by Michael on 2008-12-04 08:40:19 tags: adobe air, ajax, aptana, django, iphone, php, programming ide, python, ruby on rail, software development

When Java was the primetime language of choice for most companies, it wasn't hard to come up with an IDE or two that would more than suffice in development. A lot of the projects that I worked on fell into one of two categories: IBM or open source. Many of the large-scale big companies working with Java were either backing IBM or Sun Microsystems. If you were an IBM backer, you used IBM's Visual Age for Java as your IDE of choice. If you were a Sun or open source backer, you more than like used a variation ...