Aptana Studio (IDE) – A First Look
// June 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Development
Here at Cando, we consider ourselves old school for the most part. We don’t use programs like Dreamweaver or any HTML applications like it to develop web apps. While they have their place, we code everything by hand — every line of code in CSS, HTML, PHP, etc. is done solely in our favorite text editor, Text Wrangler from Bare Bones Software. In fact, we don’t even use the Visual editor in Wordpress to write these posts. Yes, we’re hardcore to the bone.
Recently, I took a look at a few IDEs to see what all of the fuss was about. After trying 4 of them over the course of a week, I was rather unimpressed with the results. Granted they work slightly differently from each other and overall the goal is to speed up development, I found them rather difficult to use. I also particularly found the interface to be an eye sore. Though thinking about it further, I decided to give them another go and be a little bit more open to how they work. I won’t go into which IDEs they were though except to say that the one that stood out from crowd was Aptana Studio.
