The best open source tool for web development

• Writing by Rajveer
• On August 21st, 2008 at 7:30 am

There are many people out there who talks about the advantages of using open source, and there is a big list of success stories like Unix, Linux, Apache etc. People have developed more interest in software that is freely available and widely used. However while these examples are great, this article is dedicated to Aptana Studio, a dominant web development environment which can work stand alone or within Eclipse.

With more than 2,000,000 downloads so far, this should be enough to gaze as why Aptana Studio is now a great demand among web professionals in every corner of the world. Aptana Studio offers excellent development environment for AJAX, HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript, you can do editing and debugging. You can also enjoy the extra development plugins for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR, and Apple iPhone.

Aptana Studio attracts its users with plenty of handy features probably because everyone wants to deliver flawless results at the same time while work faster than before. Read on some of the main features below:

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• You can create a web project which can be configured with server. If you have worked on DreamWeaver, you must be aware how it works.
• Global reference with content assistance, you can enable and disable it at your convenience.
• Aptana understands the complete code you write, weather it is a class or an ID from CSS and HTML file, or the JavaScript. So you get runtime HTML DOM code assistance with error notification for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It also helps to easily differentiate the code presented in different color. You can also expand/collapse or nest the selected tags.
• Aptna CSS code assistance provides suggestions and hits while coding.
• Runtime CSS preview allows you to check the CSS changes for any file you work.
• The document outline window is shown for HTML, CSS and JavaScript as a tree menu so it turns out to be very handy to highlight the selected area or to check the overall page structure. Also a visual ScriptDoc gives you an excellent facility to check the hierarchy of your code.
• Efficient search interface for you to reach where you want without wasting a lot of time.
• Integrated proxy support to allow you to work with Aptana even being behind the firewall.
• In-built Mozilla Firefox browser preview to check the errors and warnings using firebug plugin. You can even configure the preview tabs against any preferred server or URL, it saves lot of time.

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2 Responses

1. Swati Arora August 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 am

   This sounds good to me. Definitely will try this.

2. sudarsan September 27th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

   hi find many people are using this product can you tell me any good web sites or books on this subject…

   thanks for writing this article…
   bye
   sudarsan

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