Studio Canaria

Web Development Resources - Aptana Studio

Published: on 11/9/08 | Comments (4)

At the risk of showing my age, it's been nearly 28 years since I wrote my first line of code. Way back in the heady days of ZX Basic on my trusty old ZX Spectrum. Back then to get anything usefull done it was Z80 assembly language or nothing.

Over the years I've used a lot of programming languages and a lot of IDE's, from Hisoft Basic on my Atari ST, through to Delphi and Visual Studio.

Nowadays, I tend to work extensively with both the .NET framework using Visual Studio 2008 and PHP using Aptana Studio.

It's available both as a standalone application and as an Eclipse plugin and I have used it both ways, I have also tried many other PHP editors including Komodo, PHPEdit and the PDE plugin for Eclipse but in the end I always tend to come back to Aptana.

For todays mix of PHP, CSS and AJAX/Javascript, I just find it a pleasure to work with and very intuitive.

Of course, I can't write an article on my favourite IDE and miss out Dreamweaver which I have used right back since version 1, but since using Aptana, I find myself almost never using Dreamweaver at all, and best of all, you can download the community edition free of charge or for a very reasonable fee upgrade to the PRO edition.

How about you?

Just for the record, why not use the comments section below to tell me about your IDE of choice.

Comments

1: Daniel Hofstetter said

I currently use Eclipse PDT. I tried to install Aptana some time ago, but without luck...

Btw: Your captcha is quite difficult to decipher.

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2: hepper said

Just fund your blog and it looks like you cover some interesting topics.

I'm use Eclipse PDT for the most but will take a look at aptana

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3: kiran aghor said

I use netbeans 6.5 for php (beta and nightly). It is really good. (ur captcha is very difficult)

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4: mee said

I actually prefer e-texteditor. It's not a real IDE, but it's pretty fast, handy and it does snippets with autocompletion (like textmate in osx). As for me, monsters like Eclipse-php or Aptana are just too masive. But, E can't work with SVN/GIT and so on, that's a huge minus.

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