Aptana Inc. develops web application tools for Web 2.0 and Ajax and uses languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python. Find Aptana news and tools here and learn about some of Aptana’s popular products such as Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud and Aptana Jaxer.
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Category: Aptana, Articles
, JavaScript
, Server
Davey Waterson of the Aptana Jaxer team has posted an article on using jQuery on the server-side with E4X and more that shows an example of server-side Ajax with a popular framework. The article describes a polling application that features: Using jQuery server-side to manipulate a DOM before it's sent to the client Doing some Read the rest...
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Category: Aptana, Examples
, JavaScript
Dealing with file uploads can be a test of a Web framework. I personally long for the input type="file" to be improved with items such as multiple="true" for multiselection, let alone showing the status of the upload (20% complete). The Jaxer folks have posted on Easy File Uploading using Aptana Jaxer which shows how you Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Category: Announcements, Aptana
, Rails
, Screencast
Aptana took over the RadRails open source project a few months back, and now have fully integrated it with Aptana Studio with the RadRails 1.0 release. RadRails 1.0 runs as a plug-in to Aptana Studio. So in addition to all the Ruby on Rails IDE goodies and the integrated Rails shell command-line console, developers get Read the rest...
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Yesterday we posted about Dojo and AIR and how the framework could be well suited for certain desktop applications. Today we have Kriz Zyp talking about their Jaxer support and how you can use the Django template language, that Dojo recently added, to once again do its thing on the server side. Kris tells us Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Category: Aptana, Editorial
, TIBCO
When we posted the last podcast on Aptana Jaxer, someone commented on the fact that Kevin Hakman was there, and "Doesn’t Kevin Hakman work for Tibco? What does he have to do with Aptana?". Aptana has now come out with the news that they have hired Kevin: We are excited to announce that Kevin Hakman Read the rest...
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Category: Aptana, Framework
, JavaScript
, Podcasts
I had the opportunity to sit down with three fine gents from Aptana to discuss their recent launch of Jaxer, the "server side Ajax framework". Paul Colton, Uri Sarid, and Kevin Hakman all sat with me to chat about things. I have already played with Jaxer, and created the Google Gears wrapper which can be Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Category: Aptana, Gears
, JavaScript
Reposted from my personal blog As soon as I started to play with Aptana Jaxer, I saw an interesting opportunity to port the Google Gears Database API (note the Gears in the logo!) If I could use the same API for both client and server side database access, then I can be enabled to do Read the rest...
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Category: Ajax, Aptana
, JavaScript
, Library
, Screencast
, Server
Aptana has been known for its Eclipse based Ajax IDE Aptana Studio. Paul Colton, CEO, has impressed us at The Ajax Experience as he has shown of Studio, and how Aptana is fast to adapt and come out with support for iPhone development, Adobe AIR, and more. But today Aptana is breaking out of the Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Category: Aptana, JavaScript
The very popular Aptana IDE has finally broken out of the milestone phase and reached version 1.0. We are very proud to have released Aptana Studio 1.0 (formerly Aptana IDE). After over two years of non-stop development and close to a million downloads, we have finally reached "1.0". Along with the release of 1.0, we Read the rest...
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Category: Aptana
Bill Manning, Aptana's new product manager, just buzzed me about the Milestone 9 update to the Aptana editor. This new release includes: Increased PHP support includes Code Assist on PHP functions and parameters, improved PHP syntax colorization, and a PHP outliner. Updates to the latest known publicly available "current" versions of many of the Ajax Read the rest...
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Category: Adobe, Aptana
, Gears
, Offline
, Sencha
Jack Slocum has kicked off his new Ext JS blog with an entry on his experience writing an application with Ext JS, AIR, Aptana, and lots of Red Bull. As part of the experience Jack has created Ext.air.MainWindow which makes your AIR window look like a Ext.Window. Jack actually created two versions, the online one Read the rest...
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Category: Adobe, Aptana
, Utility
Adding support for AIR feels kinda funny to write. I guess Aptana wants to be life support for Ajax development (boom, boom). The Aptana IDE now supports Adobe AIR: This means that Ajax developers can now use our IDE to build desktop apps seamlessly using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Some of the features we added Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Aptana made news when they brought in RadRails, and now they have consolidated their Ruby support by announcing the incorporation of the Ruby Development Team project into the Aptana IDE: The Aptana IDE is targeted at AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) style development and provides support for JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML and Read the rest...
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Category: Ajax, Aptana
, Utility
Fred Anderson pointed us to Aptana, a new web IDE based on Eclipse. They provide some nice screencasts of the functionality, and in the documentation they list "hot-To's" for Many of the frameworks. Features Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
Hello Everyone,
Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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