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Earlier this week, the Aptana team rolled out a beta version of the upcoming Aptana Studio 1.1 release to our Pro users. This release contains many new features and implements some of the most popular feature requests we’ve gotten in recent months. Read on to learn more about the upcoming 1.1 release.

New Release

The first “nightly” release of Aptana Studio 1.1 is now available to Pro users. This release contains many new features, including some of the most-often requested features by our users. Some of the highlights of 1.1 include the following enhancements:

• A new Servers View to manage the servers for your projects
• Enhanced HTML preview preferences:
  • Manage your preferences on a per-project basis
  • Set a root directory other than the project root for preview
  • Assign a run configuration or a server to a project
• Code Assist Profiles View renamed to “References View”…now with the ability to add global references, such as adding the EXT framework to your coding environment
• Editor toolbars: Each Editor now has a toolbar for common commands/shortcuts, such as wrapping selected text with a “bold” tag
• Multi-line file search now added to “Search” functionality

Tips and Tricks

Do you have a suggestion for a new feature for Aptana Studio? Submit your feature request to the ASAP database. This will allow other users to “vote” on your feature request and help us plan future releases.

Community Buzz

We are aware that some users are encountering problems as they try to update Aptana Studio. We are working on this issue and hope to have it fixed soon. In the meantime, the more information that we can gather from our user community, the easier it will be to pinpoint the issue. If you do encounter an error while trying to update Aptana Studio, please file a bug report in the ASAP database, or add your comments to an existing issue.

Next week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on refining v1.1. We plan to have another update with more features and bug fixes ready for our Pro user base sometime next week.

Earlier this week, the Aptana team rolled out a beta version of the upcoming Aptana Studio 1.1 release to our Pro users. This release contains many new features and implements some of the most popular feature requests we’ve gotten in recent months. Read on to learn more about the upcoming 1.1 release.

New Release

The first “nightly” release of Aptana Studio 1.1 is now available to Pro users. This release contains many new features, including some of the most-often requested features by our users. Some of the highlights of 1.1 include the following enhancements:

• A new Servers View to manage the servers for your projects
• Enhanced HTML preview preferences:
  • Manage your preferences on a per-project basis
  • Set a root directory other than the project root for preview
  • Assign a run configuration or a server to a project
• Code Assist Profiles View renamed to “References View”…now with the ability to add global references, such as adding the EXT framework to your coding environment
• Editor toolbars: Each Editor now has a toolbar for common commands/shortcuts, such as wrapping selected text with a “bold” tag
• Multi-line file search now added to “Search” functionality

Tips and Tricks

Do you have a suggestion for a new feature for Aptana Studio? Submit your feature request to the ASAP database. This will allow other users to “vote” on your feature request and help us plan future releases.

Community Buzz

We are aware that some users are encountering problems as they try to update Aptana Studio. We are working on this issue and hope to have it fixed soon. In the meantime, the more information that we can gather from our user community, the easier it will be to pinpoint the issue. If you do encounter an error while trying to update Aptana Studio, please file a bug report in the ASAP database, or add your comments to an existing issue.

Next week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on refining v1.1. We plan to have another update with more features and bug fixes ready for our Pro user base sometime next week.

This week, the Aptana development team released the 0.9.1 version of RadRails, the 1.0.1 version of Aptana Studio to beta for Pro customers, and continued working on our upcoming Aptana Studio 1.1 release.

New Release

Aptana RadRails

Earlier this week, we released the 0.9.1 version of Aptana RadRails. This release fixes compatibility issues with Eclipse 3.3, adds support for JRuby as a Ruby interpreter, and creates a more user-friendly installation experience. More details about this release are available on RadRails blog.

Aptana Studio

Also this week, we released a “nightly” version of Aptana Studio 1.0.1 to our Pro users for beta testing. This release includes bug fixes for many of the issues that our users alerted us to after our 1.0 release. We plan to make this patch release available to the entire Aptana community soon.

Tips and Tricks

If you upgrade to Aptana Studio Pro and you find that you’re getting an authentication error when you try to download the Pro plug-in, make sure that your Aptana store password matches your license password. You can edit your license password by going into your Store account and updating your password so that it matches.

Community Buzz

We’re in the process of migrating our old Trac database to ASAP. One of the reasons why we’re doing this is that ASAP is much more user-friendly and easily searchable. We’re ultimately hoping to build up a Knowledge Base for our users, so that if you encounter an issue with Aptana, you can search ASAP and see if other users are experiencing the same issue, and if so, possible workarounds and estimated releases for fixes, etc. If you encounter a bug, would like to request a new feature, or just need some help with Aptana, we encourage you to fill out a support request in ASAP.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on the upcoming Aptana Studio 1.1 release. We’ll continue to pay attention to bug reports that we receive for Aptana Studio 1.0 and the new 1.0.1 beta and will incorporate fixes for those issues into our development plans.

Earlier this week, after two years of development time, the Aptana team released the 1.0 version of Aptana Studio. This week’s Aptana recap focuses on our 1.0 release.

New Release

Aptana Studio v1.0 is available in two versions: a free Community Edition and a Pro edition that is currently available for the introductory price of $99. The Pro version contains everything in the Community Edition plus many additional features:

• JSON file editing
• FTPS support
• Improved SFTP support
• Remote project creation/importing
• IE debugging
• Project reporting
• Priority support
• Early access to new features and builds

See the Aptana Studio product page for more details.

Tips and Tricks

With the release of Aptana Studio 1.0, we removed a very small number of features that were either buggy or incomplete, including SFTP support and non-English language support. If you would like to use the old version of SFTP in your Community Edition of Aptana Studio, or if you would like to download a language pack, you can download these as plug-ins from the Aptana Studio plug-ins page.

Community Buzz

Our user community has been very active on the Aptana forums since we announced the 1.0 release:

• If you have questions about how to update from Milestone 9 to v1.0, the Help topic for Updating to Aptana Studio 1.0 explains how to export your workspace settings, etc, so that you can seamlessly migrate to 1.0.
• If you’re interested in upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro, the Upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro Help topic describes how to purchase a license and how to use that license to upgrade your current Aptana installation.
• If you still have questions about Pro, see our FAQ for upgrading to Pro, or post on our forums.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work to help migrate the Aptana community to Aptana Studio 1.0. We’ll also start evaluating features and bugs in order to start planning for our next release–Aptana Studio 1.1.

With Milestone 10 released to “nightly” status last week, the Aptana team has been working hard to refine the Milestone 10 release before we promote it to “next” or “current” status.

New Release

Although we had no new releases this past week, we do anticipate releasing an updated version of the Aptana IDE in the next week. The new release will include the new features in M10 and bug fixes for issues that our beta testers have discovered while M10 has been in “nightly” release status.

Tips and Tricks

We’ve seen quite a few reports about users having trouble using automatic updates to install Aptana updates. While we’re working on trying to solve these issues, we do have a workaround for our users. Manually download the .zip file from the site that you’d like to update to, and follow the instructions on the page:

Current: http://update.aptana.com/install/3.2/
Next: http://update.aptana.com/update/next/3.2/
Nightly: http://update.aptana.com/update/nightly/3.2/

Community Buzz

The Aptana IDE is highly customizable through setting your preferences. Many of the questions that we get asked about on the forum can be answered by looking through your Eclipse and Aptana preferences. Although at first glance, your preferences appear to have many tabs to sort through, you can easily filter out most of these pages by typing a key word or phrase in the filter box in the upper left corner of the Preferences window. You can use this filter to quickly find a Preference screen that might be buried several levels deep in the Preferences tree.

Next Week

Next week, we hope to have an updated version of the “nightly” Milestone 10 release ready for beta testers. The updated version of Milestone 10 will feature refinements and bug fixes for FTP support.

The Aptana team has updated the Adobe AIR plugin to support the latest release of the AIR SDK and runtime (Beta 2).

This Adobe AIR release includes a new security model which is addressed by new features in the Aptana plugin. You can now digitally sign exported AIR files using certificates either created in the IDE or elsewhere. Also, unsigned intermediate AIR (AIRI) files can be created from within the IDE and signed later. The Adobe AIR samples have also been updated to be compatible with the latest SDK and runtime. Please stay tuned this week for more updates and screencasts showing off the new features.

Please check the start page inside the IDE or go to the AIR plugin site for more details.

That Aptana team is very pleased to announce that Aptana RadRails Milestone 7 (combined with the Milestone 6) has been released to beta. (If you are planning to install this into an Eclipse 3.3 install, please hold off. There is an outstanding bug that only affects 3.3). This release includes a tremendous amount of new features and fixes:

• Call Hierarchy View
• New YML Editor
• Significant number of new code analysis/warning checks including a set of checks for rails deprecations
• Allow setting breakpoints on ruby files outside the workspace (gems and libraries referenced by projects)
• New Ruby Explorer view which replaces Rails Navigator and Ruby Resources View, includes more advanced functionality
• Evaluation of arbitrary code in debugger at breakpoint
• New JRuby VM Type
• Decorators (team/sharing, warnings/problems) shown in new Ruby Explorer view

Detailed release information is available:

Milestone 6
Milestone 7

Follow the instructions below to set your policy file and download the beta: Updating to a RadRails beta release

If that fails, you can also try manually adding the following update site to the update manager:

http://update.aptana.com/update/rails/beta/3.2/site.xml

A few weeks ago, we changed our license to the Aptana Public License (“APL”). This license allows any use but prohibits redistribution without a commercial license. We heard from you, the community, that you wanted to be able to both contribute to and distribute our code under a truly open source license — “open source” as defined by the Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative.

To that end, we have decided to add an additional license to the Aptana IDE: the GPL. This “dual license” model for the Aptana IDE means that it is now available under an OSI compliant open source license, the GPL, or under a permissive, non-GPL’d license, the APL, for those who don’t require redistribution. If neither of these licenses work for you, contact us for other licensing options.

Please see our new Licensing FAQ at http://www.aptana.com/legal/ and if you have any questions, email us at license@aptana.com.

The Aptana team is currently in the process of testing and fixing bugs for the upcoming Milestone 10 release. Look for a “nightly” version of this Milestone to be available soon.

New Release

Last week, many users reported an issue where Korean characters were showing up in their translated versions of Aptana. We were able to quickly identify and fix this issue. For affected users, we promoted Build 17048 to “nightly” and then “next” status earlier this week. Build 17048 contains a fix for this issue. If you were affected by this bug, please update your version of Aptana to “next” or “nightly”.

Tips and Tricks

With the current Aptana installer for Windows, we know that many users initially set Aptana as their “view source” application for Internet Explorer and later decide that they would like to change this back to Notepad or another application.

When we release Milestone 10, you’ll be able to easily set a preference to set your “View Source” application for IE. You can get a sneak preview of this preference in the online help.

Until Milestone 10 rolls out, however, you can modify a Windows key to reset View Source. We have directions on the Help wiki for how to do this.

Community Buzz

Many of the recent feature requests that we’ve been receiving have been related to code formatting and allowing our users to have more control over how their code is formatted. We have good news in that Milestone 10 will include a re-write of the Aptana code formatter, and that you’ll have much more flexibility in how your code (including JavaScript) is formatted.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to fine-tune Milestone 10 to get it ready for release. In addition to the aforementioned View Source and code formatting features, Milestone 10 also includes updates to our FTP functionality, including the ability to create new files on remote sites.

We recently changed our license for some of the IDE to the Aptana Public License (APL). I wanted to briefly discuss our motivations and what it means to you.

The Aptana IDE has over 10 person years of development behind it, and all of the source code we’ve written is publicly available. Portions of the IDE are still under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), including a lot of our Ruby work. In addition, we’re contributors on the Eclipse Babel project and leads on the Eclipse Monkey project, and all of the Aptana IDE documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons license. The Aptana IDE will continue to be freely available, and the source code will continue to also be freely available. Nothing about the product has changed, or its availability, including in source code form.

The new license gives us more visibility into who is redistributing the IDE. We strive to keep a very high level of quality and polish, therefore we want to be aware of any rebranding and redistribution of the IDE. We encourage you to write and distribute your own plugins for the IDE, take the source code and improve it, and if you’d like to become a contributor, we’d be happy to have your help.

If you have any questions at all, please review our FAQ or just send us an email at license@aptana.com.

-Paul Colton

We’ve recently switched to using a load-balanced configuration for handling downloads and updates to provide you a better download experience. You may notice some slowness today, and please bear with us as we work through any hiccups.

Wednesday was the first day of the Ajax Experience, held in San Francisco, CA. We’re both presenting and attending. Here’s a few impressions of what happened. The keynote was given by Brendan Eich, CTO of the Mozilla Foundation, with a few notable announcements:

• Ajax has come a long way in the last year–better performance and offline and desktop for Ajax is here (Gears & AIR as the main examples)
• WebKit becoming a real player in the market
• Tooling support for Ajax, namely Aptana IDE and Firebug
• Iron Monkey and ScreamingMonkey. IronMonkey is Python and Ruby mapped to Tamarin, the open-source implementation of ES4 (ECMAScript 4). This would allow you to use Ruby and Python inside your browser. ScreamingMonkey is the porting of this to Internet Explorer.

We sat through a few more talks as well.

Google Gears
They discussed how it’s not just for offline usage, but for removing much of the back-and-forth traffic between client and server. It supports workers, which are like threads, and also offers full text search for your data, which is cool.

Yahoo
Yahoo released YSlow, a performance tuning plug-in for Firebug which makes use of the “14 rules for faster websites”. You can use it inside your existing version of Firebug for Aptana!

AOL
AOL is opening up a number of internal APIs for external use. One of them is instant messaging, and they demoed TinyBuddy which uses the AIM protocol to chat.

Other News
There was also discussion of a few useful tips and tricks:

• The Yahoo CSS Layout Builder.
• Selenium (for those who haven’t seen it before), is very nice.
• IBM Page Detailer. Provides extra traffic information about what’s happening when items on your page are requested.
• A fancy trick for increasing the number of connections your browser can make to the server. Map a number of sub domains (i.e. server1.aptana.com, server2.aptana.com, server3.aptana.com) to the same server. Then, when requesting items, generate a unique server name from the list of available names. You can get more than 2 simultaneous connections and you’ll see page load times decrease dramatically.

All in all, a great day. We had a number of presenters use and discuss Aptana, so we’re very excited. More tomorrow!

This past week, we continued our incremental roll out of Milestone 9 with PHP support by releasing new “nightly” and “next” builds for beta testers.

New Release

This past week, Build 0.2.9.16476 was promoted to “nightly” status and then promoted to “next” status. This build contains additional updates to our PHP support and support for EXT v1.1. Thanks to Mike Kidder for putting the EXT plug-in together!

Tips and Tricks

Are you interested in the status of a particular bug or feature request in our Trac system? You have two options for tracking a Trac item. If you are logged into Trac, you can add your email address to the “CC field”. If you are not logged into Trac or don’t want to include your email address, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for an item. To subscribe to an RSS feed, just click the RSS Feed link at the bottom of the Trac item page and follow the instructions.

Community Buzz

We’ve been getting a lot of requests on the forum recently for additional FTP features, such as the ability to create a new file on a remote site. We’ve also been seeing more reports of FTP/SFTP-related bugs lately. We’ll be working on several new FTP-related features and bug fixes in Milestone 10, and you’ll start to see these implemented when the Milestone 10 nightly builds start to roll out in the near future.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work towards a stable release for Milestone 9. We’ll also be working on Milestone 10, as resources allow.

This past week, we continued our incremental roll out of Milestone 9 with PHP support by releasing new “nightly” and “next” builds for beta testers.

New Release

This past week, Build 0.2.9.16476 was promoted to “nightly” status and then promoted to “next” status. This build contains additional updates to our PHP support and support for EXT v1.1. Thanks to Mike Kidder for putting the EXT plug-in together!

Tips and Tricks

Are you interested in the status of a particular bug or feature request in our Trac system? You have two options for tracking a Trac item. If you are logged into Trac, you can add your email address to the “CC field”. If you are not logged into Trac or don’t want to include your email address, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for an item. To subscribe to an RSS feed, just click the RSS Feed link at the bottom of the Trac item page and follow the instructions.

Community Buzz

We’ve been getting a lot of requests on the forum recently for additional FTP features, such as the ability to create a new file on a remote site. We’ve also been seeing more reports of FTP/SFTP-related bugs lately. We’ll be working on several new FTP-related features and bug fixes in Milestone 10, and you’ll start to see these implemented when the Milestone 10 nightly builds start to roll out in the near future.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work towards a stable release for Milestone 9. We’ll also be working on Milestone 10, as resources allow.

Wednesday was the first day of the Ajax Experience, held in San Francisco, CA. We’re both presenting and attending. Here’s a few impressions of what happened. The keynote was given by Brendan Eich, CTO of the Mozilla Foundation, with a few notable announcements:

• Ajax has come a long way in the last year–better performance and offline and desktop for Ajax is here (Gears & AIR as the main examples)
• WebKit becoming a real player in the market
• Tooling support for Ajax, namely Aptana IDE and Firebug
• Iron Monkey and ScreamingMonkey. IronMonkey is Python and Ruby mapped to Tamarin, the open-source implementation of ES4 (ECMAScript 4). This would allow you to use Ruby and Python inside your browser. ScreamingMonkey is the porting of this to Internet Explorer.

We sat through a few more talks as well.

Google Gears
They discussed how it’s not just for offline usage, but for removing much of the back-and-forth traffic between client and server. It supports workers, which are like threads, and also offers full text search for your data, which is cool.

Yahoo
Yahoo released YSlow, a performance tuning plug-in for Firebug which makes use of the “14 rules for faster websites”. You can use it inside your existing version of Firebug for Aptana!

AOL
AOL is opening up a number of internal APIs for external use. One of them is instant messaging, and they demoed TinyBuddy which uses the AIM protocol to chat.

Other News
There was also discussion of a few useful tips and tricks:

• The Yahoo CSS Layout Builder.
• Selenium (for those who haven’t seen it before), is very nice.
• IBM Page Detailer. Provides extra traffic information about what’s happening when items on your page are requested.
• A fancy trick for increasing the number of connections your browser can make to the server. Map a number of sub domains (i.e. server1.aptana.com, server2.aptana.com, server3.aptana.com) to the same server. Then, when requesting items, generate a unique server name from the list of available names. You can get more than 2 simultaneous connections and you’ll see page load times decrease dramatically.

All in all, a great day. We had a number of presenters use and discuss Aptana, so we’re very excited. More tomorrow!

We’ve just released an update to our iPhone plug-in that now allows you to view your applications on your actual iPhone. You can also now use console logging with your iPhone and call functions from your phone. Our new iPhone screencast on aptana.tv gives details about all of these new features for iPhone development.

The Aptana IDE now supports a plug-in for Apple iPhone development. The iPhone development plug-in includes the following features:

• Preview of your iPhone projects in hortizontal and vertical mode
• iPhone Project contains starter files to get you going easily on your iPhones apps
• Easy import of Ajax libraries into iPhone projects
• Export wizard for bundling and deploying iPhone applications (coming soon)
• Integrated content assist for iPhone-specific APIs (coming soon)
• Help and online documentation (coming soon)

To learn more, visit the iPhone page at aptana.com, or view the iPhone screencast on aptana.tv.