Aptana 1.0 Has Landed

October 30th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Aptana 1.0 has landed, sports loads of new features and the inevitable release of a Pro version.

Some of the New Features

CSS Preview
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Formatting
Code drag and drop
Visual ScriptDoc Explorer
Improved Help
Loads of Polish

What’s with the new name?

The Aptana IDE has been rebranded Aptana Studio, likely to reflect the upcoming spectrum of products from the company.

What’s with the pro version?

So Aptana has released a Pro version of the studio. The Pro version includes several features intended to streamline development and hopefully justify the new $99 price tag (expect the price to go up to $199 in the future).

The new pro features:

JSON Editor
Internet Explorer Debugging
Remote Project Creation
FTPS and SFTP Support
Reporting Engine

You can find more information on the Aptana Blog

http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=200?diff=y

You can download the software here:

http://aptana.com/download/

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5 Comments

Chris P
October 30th, 2007 at 8:43 am

Do you know if there are any plugins for developing PHP in Aptana? I downloaded and installed, but did not see anything native.
Chris W
October 30th, 2007 at 9:06 am

Chris P: There are a set of PHP Plugins. They don’t come pre-installed when you download Aptana, instead you install them afterwards. After you install and run Aptana you should see the Aptana Start Page (if not, click the house icon in the toolbar). From there you should see the PHP Plugin listed on the page and a link to begin the installation directly inside the IDE.
Don Albrecht
October 30th, 2007 at 9:13 am

The PHP plugins are excellent. The plugin was front and center on the startpage when I installed the software this morning. Some other plugins of note are: Ruby on Rails, iPhone & Adobe AIR. Since Aptana is Eclipse based, any Eclipse plugin works as well.
I personally use GWT & Fireclipse in my Aptana environment.
Chris P
October 30th, 2007 at 9:17 am

Chris W, thanks for pointing that out. I installed it was already impressed by the “intellisense” ability that it has. I’m going to experiment with it a bit and see how it works for my PHP development.
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