Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Switched to Aptana Studio - so should you...

I've been a long time Eclipse user - despite it's sometime slowness and high learning curve. This patience has paid off for me many times as I've moved from place to place and computer to computer, as Eclipse runs fine on Mac, PC, or Unix (I think). Anyway I've been using plain vanilla Eclipse for a long time with some essential extensions like subclipse and I have been toying with Aptana off and on. Today I shelved my old Eclipse build and switched completely over to Aptana Studio. (No, I'm not getting paid by them, I don't even think they know I exist, nor does it matter). With CSS, JS, DHTML, and Adobe AIR editing as well as version control with Subclipse Aptana is a true killer developer tool for Ajax developers. If you havent tried it out, I recommend you give yourself a day or so to get accustomed to the way things work.

If I had one request it would be I wish that Aptana would give you an option to download a version their tool with Adobe AIR and subclipse already pre-installed. As it is, you have to go through the awkward update process to include those features. It's not a big deal however once you learn how to add extensions to (Eclipse) Aptana.

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1 Comments:

At 9:15 AM, Anonymous Kevin Hakman said...

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Thanks for the comments. In fact just today we were discussing what you're asking for ... the ability to pre-choose which plug-ins (like Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone, RadRails, PHP, etc...) you'd want in the download.

Your feedback is most appreciated. FWIW--You can also directly participate in enhancement ideas through our ASAP service @ http://support.aptana.com

 

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