Rohit P. Khare
Scott M. Spear
About the Author
Thomas Deuling is a web applications developer with over 5 years experience in developing large web applications with open source technologies. He started by programming small web applications and websites for different agencies. Currently, he is self employed and has just founded his own company called coding.ms (www.coding.ms). He has managed many large web projects in the past, even developing a whole ERP/CRM system for a large international company. In short, Thomas lives web development.
He is also the author of a German book, Warenwirtschaft und Webapplikationen auf Basis von OpenLaszlo , VDM Publishing , which deals with enterprise resource planning and web applications based on OpenLaszlo.
Firstly, the Appcelerator team deserves much of my gratitude for their time and effort, especially Ingo Muschenetz. I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book, and for the immeasurable support provided to me throughout this project. Last but most definitely not least, I would like to thank my family for their on-going encouragement and understanding.
About the Reviewers
Rohit P. Khare has around 10 years experience in programming. He specializes in .NET technology, but also has a passion for PHP and Ruby on Rails. For most open-source projects, he uses Aptana Studio as the preferred IDE.
He is working as a Tech Lead in a company where he handles the web applications division. Prior to this, he worked with different companies specializing in the retail domain, and he has also worked as a software consultant with a few key government organizations.
Scott M. Spear owns and operates Webmasters by Design LLC, a web design and development business. He has earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Management Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Administration, and has over a decade of web-design, development, and hosting experience. He has experience in a variety of fields, including specialization in dynamic website design and development using technologies such as PHP, MySQL, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, and ZendFramework. Additionally, he had experience working with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, WordPress, and Joomla!.
I would like to thank my wife for being there to help me succeed through all of my challenges and opportunities. She is my best friend, my biggest supporter, and the love of my life. Thank you, Heather!
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Preface
Aptana Studio is a powerful open source integrated development environment (IDE) that specializes in building web applicati ons. Aptana Studio has been around since 2008. It provides language support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, and many others, by using plugins. Since Version 3.0.4, the developer team of Aptana Studio has integrated the latest HTML5 and CSS3 specifi cati ons. This allows the capabiliti es of most modern browsers to be uti lized for the development of Aptana Studio. The latest Version has been downloaded more than 6 million ti mes.
Aptana Studio ships with other tasks, such as FTP and Git integration, JavaScript libraries, and JavaScript debugging. Furthermore, the Aptana Jaxer web server is included, which specializes in working with AJAX applications and websites.
Aptana Studio builds on the Java platform Eclipse, therefore it is a cross platform software and works on common operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OS-X, and Windows.
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What is Eclipse SDK?
The Eclipse software development kit (SDK) is an open source project that is completely written in Java and was started by the IBM company in 2001.
It is possible to install Aptana either as an Eclipse plugin or as a standalone version because Aptana Studio builds on Eclipse. Experienced users who have already worked with the Eclipse IDE can integrate the Eclipse plugin in their existing Eclipse installation. Users with less experience can install the standalone version as it works without having an Eclipse installation.