Working With the Aptana PHP Editor

I recently created a screencast for Aptana’s PHP Editor, and thought I would share it.

I’m also posting this since we recently relaunched our screencast site, http://tv.aptana.com. It’s actually really cool as its running entirely on Aptana Jaxer, and built with the soon-to-be released Active JS framework. I’ll soon be posting about the process of creating the site, but for now I’m happy to say that this is the first (to my knowledge) site written entirely in JavaScript that leverages Jaxer as a back-end for server side JavaScript.

Installing Aptana Jaxer on Ubuntu

It’s been a while since I’ve written about Jaxer, and it’s a shame, because there’s been a lot of major changes over the past several months. Anyway, I’ve been getting back into server-side javascript hacking, and found myself needing to get Jaxer up and running on a local dev server (and subsequently this one). You could also always work with Jaxer in Aptana’s cloud, where you’d get all the benefits of Jaxer integration with Aptana Studio and deployment workflows (SVN, staging, production, and just plain awesomeness) if you don’t want to (or need to) install Jaxer yourself. However, my needs (and presumably yours) required me to go down this route.

So, before we get started, let’s go over the list of prerequisites and assumptions:

• You’re on Ubuntu 8.04 (newer versions should work the same as well)
• You’ve got Apache installed (via aptitude, or you will have to adjust paths accordingly)
• You’ve got root access to your server

That’s about it. MySQL is also good to have, but not required. Last thing before we start: many of the steps outlined here came from this site, which was contributed by a Jaxer user at Aptana’s forums. Right, let’s get busy…

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Quickie – Aptana 2009 Roadmap Survey

Just a quick post letting everyone know that we’re asking the developer community for their input on the Aptana Studio…. what do you like, what do you hate, and what do you want. Per the survey page:

We want to make Aptana Studio better for YOU.

To do that, we need to understand what you do, how you work, what you like about Studio, and what drives you nuts. Whether you’re a regular Studio user or you’ve only tried it once or twice, we want to know what’s working for you and what’s not, what features you can’t find, and what features you can’t live without.

From now until January 10, you can help us determine our direction for the next year and beyond by taking a few minutes to give us your thoughts.

Take a few minutes and share your thoughts:
2009 Aptana User Survey