Aptana - The Web 2.0 IDE
I'm teaching an Advanced Ajax class at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. As expected, some students are on the OSX, others on Windows (though more Mac, as usual). Tools, tools, everyone whats to know what to use for light-weight front-end XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript development with a hit of PHP perhaps.
My usual recommendation is:
Mac: vi, Firefox, Firebug, and perhaps TextMate if you are not a vi kinda guy
PC: TextPad or Crimson Editor and Firefox with Firebug
But none of the above mentioned editors provide the true Ajax development environment.
Enter Aptana. It's open source. It's multi-platform. It feels like Eclipse but doesn't suck up all your memory. It's integrated with Firebug. It knows JavaScript, CSS, and XHTML. And the price is right.
Many thanks for Paul Colton for bringing this much-needed tool to the development community. Check out Aptana at http://aptana.com/ and give it a try. It's going to be the standard IDE for all our Web 2.0 Training world-wide.
Marko
