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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.

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.

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.

This week, the Aptana development team worked on fixing Milestone 9 bugs and development work for Milestone 10.

New Release

As some of you may have noticed, we briefly released an update to the “nightly” and “next” releases (Build 16909). Unfortunately, some of our users discovered a major issue issue with the translations of the non-English versions of Aptana, and as a result, we rolled back this release. We plan to promote a build that includes a fix for these issues early next week.

Tips and Tricks

Many of you have been asking for us to assign keyboard shortcuts to the HTML formatting snippets. Although we have not implemented this feature yet, we do now have a workaround for this where you can modify a short Eclipse Monkey script and assign your own shortcut to execute a snippet. Read the Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a snippet Help topic for instructions and a sample script.

Additionally, we’ve already had one of our forum users, crazyMichel1, generously create and post a .zip file with several of these scripts that you can download and unzip directly into your scripts folder. Read the forum thread to learn more about Michel’s scripts or to post your own to share with others.

Community Buzz

Many of the feature requests that we’ve been seeing on the forum lately have had to do with refining the user experience with our Editors. For Milestone 10, we’ll be concentrating on features to “polish” the editing experience, such as code drag-and-drop and improving the FTP/SFTP feature. We anticipate that we’ll have a “nightly” build for Milestone 10 available for download in about another week or so.

Next Week

Next week, we plan to release a “patch” release to Milestone 9 to fix several major user-reported bugs, including the translation issue mentioned above. We’ll also work on refining and testing Milestone 10 in order to hopefully have a release ready for our beta testers either late in the week or early the week after.

The Aptana development team has spent the past week working to get support for PHP implemented as part of the Milestone 9 release.

New Release

Earlier this week, Build 16069 was promoted to “nightly” status. This build contains a very early beta of our Code Assist for PHP. As we roll out new “nightly” builds over the next week or so, you’ll see our PHP Code Assist (and other PHP support) become more robust.

Tips and Tricks

Are you looking for online help on how to use a particular view? With the newest releases of Aptana, you can now display context-sensitive help for any Aptana view by clicking the Show Help button .

Community Buzz

We know that many of you are looking forward to the release of Milestone 9 with PHP support, so earlier this week, we put out a call for volunteers to help us complete Code Assist for PHP functions. We received a tremendous response and have had a great team of volunteers working hard to help us out with Code Assist. In the coming week, as we release additional “nightly” builds, you’ll start to see the result of their hard work in the form of more descriptive tooltips in Code Assist.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll work on putting on the finishing touches on PHP support in Milestone 9. We hope to have a solid beta ready for release some time next week.

The Aptana team continued to roll out increased PHP support over the past week, with more to come in upcoming releases.

New Release

Earlier this week, Build 15936 was promoted to “current” status. Last week, a beta release of Milestone 9, Build 16204 was promoted to “next” status. The Milestone 9 builds are the first builds containing PHP support.

Tips and Tricks

Did you know that you can preview a web page through a server, and not just from your hard drive? You can set up the preview properties of a project to get an accurate preview of PHP, apache, or other server-based projects.

To set up a server preview:

1. In the Project View, right click the project that you want to preview.
2. From the context menu, select Properties > Preview Preferences.
3. In the Path field, type the URL for the server.
4. Click OK.
5. Open an HTML file in the project and click the Preview tab to preview the file via server.

Community Buzz

We’d like to thank Mike Kidder for putting together a plug-in with updated support for the EXT library (v1.1). The Aptana team is working on integrating Mike’s work into the Aptana library wizard, and the updated EXT support should be available soon in an upcoming “nightly” build.

Next Week

As we continue to work on PHP code assist and other PHP-related features, we’ll likely be releasing another “nightly” build in the next week or so with more updates. The next “nightly” build will also contain support for EXT v1.1.

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.

The Aptana team continued to work on implementing PHP support as part of Milestone 9 this past week.

New Release

Earlier this week, Build 0.2.9.16071 was promoted to “next” release status, and Build 0.2.9.16120 was promoted to “nightly” status. Both of these builds contain the start of the rollout of our PHP support. If you update to either of these builds, you’ll have access to our partially implemented PHP Code Assist. Additionally, we’ve set up a PHP subforum in our forums where you can give feedback after testing out our new PHP support:

PHP subforums

Tips and Tricks

Would you like to change the amount or type of information displayed in the Validation View? With the release of Milestone 9, you can now toggle off warning, error, and informational messages from the buttons in the Validation View. Read the Validation View Help topic to learn more.

Community Buzz

The Ajax Experience conference was held in San Francisco earlier this week. Aptana both attended and presented at this conference. To learn more about the Ajax Expereince, read our blog posts:

• Ajax Experience Day 1
• Ajax Experience Day 2

Next Week

Next week, we hope to wrap up Milestone 9 development work. We hope to release at least one build with the bulk of our preliminary PHP support in place. We’re also working on the Milestone 5 and 6 releases for RadRails.

This past week, the Aptana team released an updated iPhone plug-in and made considerable progress towards a Milestone 9 release.

New Release

Aptana IDE

Earlier this week, we promoted Build 15613 to “Next” release status. This build contains additional refinements to Milestone 8b.

iPhone plug-in

On Monday, we released an update to the iPhone plug-in, which now includes support for an iPhone application server and integration with Joe Hewitt’s Firebug. With this update, you can now preview your iPhone projects on your iPhone and also use console logging for your development work. To learn more, see the new iPhone screencast.

Tips and Tricks

If you are a Mac user who is having trouble trying to run /usr/bin/java (this issue has been seen by some uphuck users), make sure that on OSX, /usr/bin/java points to “/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Commands/java” (with a leading ‘/’). This should fix the issue so that you can run Aptana.

Community Buzz

One of the most popular feature requests that we’ve received is for a hotkey shortcut for uploading files via FTP. We have great news for those of you interested in this feature: we will be implementing it in Milestone 9. As of Milestone 9, you will be able to use the shortcut Ctrl+ Shift + U to upload the currently active file. This release will also include a script that you can use to auto-upload a file on save.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on Milestone 9. In addition to some of the features discussed above, Milestone 9 will also feature support for PHP. We’re hoping to have a Milestone 9 beta release ready for preview soon.

This past week saw another new release for the Aptana IDE containing serveral enhancements, including support for the new iPhone development plug-in.

New Releases

Aptana IDE

Earlier this week, Build 15637 was promoted to official release status. This Build is a patch for Milestone 8b that contains numerous enhancements:

• Updates to the included libraries: Ext, Mootools, Adobe Spry, Scriptaculous, etc.
• Code folding enhancements. JavaScript comments can now be folded, and comments may be folded initially
• The JavaScript outliner now supports additional JavaScript syntaxes, including Ext.extend and qooxdoo’s qx.Class.define
• New Samples Vew allowing easy viewing of Ajax library samples. Samples may be imported as projects.

Apple iPhone plug-in

The Aptana development team also released a new plug-in that supports development for the new Apple iPhone. To learn more about the iPhone plug-in, visit the iPhone page or view the new iPhone screencast.

Adobe® AIR™

We released an updated version of the Adobe AIR plug-in this week that includes several Adobe AIR project samples in the new Samples View. These samples can be both previewed and imported as projects. This plug-in release is compatible with the latest Aptana Milestone Release (0.2.8.15637).

Tips and Tricks

Looking for an easier way to install and manage your plug-ins? The Aptana plug-ins manager simplifies the process of installing, updating, and removing some of the most popular plug-ins for Aptana IDE users. To learn more about the plug-ins manager, see Displaying the Plugins Manager View.

Community Buzz

We’ve been getting a fair number of posts on the forum recently about upgrading the libraries in the Ajax library wizard to newer versions. With the latest release of Aptana, all libraries have been upgraded to either their current “official” version or a “stable beta”. We’ve also added support for the Adobe Spry library:

• Adobe Spry 1.5
• Aflax 1.0
• Dojo 0.4.3
• EXT 1.0.1
• jQuery 1.1.2
• MochiKit 1.4
• Mootools 1.1.1
• Rico 2.0
• Scriptaculous 1.7
• YUI 2.2.0

Most of these libraries now also have API references, available in the online help under Help > Help Contents > Aptana IDE Help > Reference > Ajax Libraries.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll work on implementing features for Milestone 9, and will continue to work on any bugs that arise in the Milestone 8b release.

More new features and updates are coming for the Aptana community. Read about the new releases below.

New Releases

Aptana IDE

This week, we promoted Build 15482 to “nightly” status. This build contains several new code folding enhancements and bug fixes:

• Comments can now be folded
• Content can be set to fold initially
• Minor fixes to previous code folding bugs

Additionally, this release contains several bug fixes for the Aptana editors and updated versions of several JavaScript libraries in the Ajax library wizard.

Adobe® AIR™ plug-in

We also released an update to the Adobe AIR plug-in. The update includes the following refinements:

• Several usability enhancements to Adobe AIR Exporter
• File > Export Wizard added for Adobe AIR projects
• Auto-adding of Adobe AIR icons on New AIR Project wizard

Tips and Tricks

Looking for an easy way to manager your plug-ins in the Aptana IDE. The Plugins Manager View in Aptana makes it easy for you to install, update, or disable popular plug-ins for the Aptana IDE. To learn more about the Plugins Manager, see [[Displaying the Plugins Manager View]].

Community Buzz

We’ve received numerous requests recently to update the versions of the JavaScript libraries found in the Ajax library wizard. We’re currently working on updating these and have been rolling out the new versions over the past few “nightly” releases. Recent “nightly” updates have included the latest version of jQuery, EXT, and Mootools. Upcoming releases will include new versions of Prototype and will also include the addition of Adobe Spry.

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on new features and bug fixes for the Aptana IDE and Aptana Rails. Included in the plans for next week are further enhancements for scripting Aptana and more library updates.

Are you ready to start developing Adobe® AIR™ applications with the Aptana IDE, but aren’t sure where to start? Our new screencast walks you through the following steps to help you get started:

• Installing the AIR plug-in
• Configuring Aptana to use your AIR SDK
• Creating a simple Hello World project
• Running a project
• Deploying the Hello World app to the desktop

Visit aptana.tv to view this and other screencasts.

Hi All,

We’ve just released milestone 8b which has a ton of stuff in it. Here are some highlights:

General updates:

• Code assist profiles, scripts and outline now work across all perspectives
• New colorization infrastructure allowing you to edit, customize and share colorization files
• Content assist for JavaScript inside of HTML attribute values like onClick, etc.
• PHP outliner now shows icons and content of PHP nodes

Scripting:

• Eclipse Monkey replaces old scripting server
• Key commands can now be assigned to scripts
• Scripts may be nested in a easy-to-organize hierarchy
• Snippets now in their own view

Debugging:

• We’ll soon be previewing our IE Debugger to a small beta group for initial feedback. If you are interested, please apply to join the IE debugging usergroup on these forums, and send me a private message or email indicating how much time you can devote to testing.

For a complete list of enhancements, see here:

For those interested, we’ll have a rails release hot on the heels of this with a bunch new features too.

You should be able to update as normal for a “next” release. Any items you find, please file them under Milestone M8b. Additional updates will follow throughout the week.

Thanks!

The Aptana team spent the past week concentrating on bug fixes for the Aptana IDE and on integration with RadRails.

New Release

While no new releases were promoted this past week, the team checked in a number of bug fixes and new features. The new features include things like further enhancements to code folding and colorization, and they will be available in a new update version soon.

Tips and Tricks

Having trouble hunting down the update URL for a plug-in that you’d like to add to your Eclipse or Aptana set-up? We’ve recently published a new wiki page containing links to the install pages and update URLs for many popular web development plug-ins:

Quick reference for popular plug-ins

Is your plug-in not listed? Let us know, or set up a wiki account and go ahead and add the plug-in to the list to share with other users!

Community Buzz

We’ve gotten a few questions recently about the Eclipse Monkey scripting tool. The 1.0 release of Eclipse Monkey will be in the near future, but in the meantime, you can learn more about this great tool online:

• Scripting with Eclipse Monkey
• Eclipse Monkey resource page

Next week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on implementing features for the next Aptana release and to fix bugs and perform other integration work for Aptana Rails.

With so much going on with RadRails integration over the past few weeks, we thought that we’d like to highlight some of the new features contained in the recent Milestone 8a release of Aptana.

New Release

Earlier this week, Build 0.2.8.14433 was promoted to “nightly” status. For a complete list of added features and bug fixes for this release, see the Release Notes page.

Tips and Tricks

With many of our users migrating to the Eclipse 3.2-based Milestone 8, we realize that many of you would like to port your preferences from your old set up to your new one. We’ve added a new Help topic to instruct you how to import and export your preferences:

Exporting and importing preferences

Community Buzz

We get a lot of questions on the forum about when a certain bug will be fixed or when a particular feature will be implemented. We track all of our bugs and feature requests in our Trac system, which you can query at any time to get a status update on a bug or a feature:

http://www.aptana.com/trac/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=milestone&order=priority

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to work on Milestone 8 for the Aptana IDE and Aptana Rails. We’ll also start rolling out a new set of documentation aimed at new Aptana users who are unfamiliar with Aptana or Eclipse and who have maybe never worked with an IDE before. You’ll start seeing these new Help topics appear on the wiki over the next week or so.

The Aptana team spent the last week working on fixing some pesky Rails IDE bugs. Rails users will see the fixes for these issues coming soon.

New Release

Earlier this week, Build 0.2.8.14433 was promoted to “current” release status. This is an M8a build and is based on Eclipse 3.2. If you have not already upgraded to an M8a build, go to the downloads page and perform a new, clean install to access the latest fixes and features:

Aptana download page

Tips and Tricks

One of the highlights of M8a is the addition of the capability to add a Firefox Preview tab to the Aptana HTML Editor. You can learn more about installing this feature in the online Help:

Adding Firefox support to the Preview pane

When adding in the plug-in, make sure that you follow the instructions carefully. You’ll need to perform a couple of post-install steps to ensure that everything works properly.

Community Buzz

We’re still getting Rails configuration questions and questions about issues with the Rails plug-ins View. We were hoping to have a release with fixes for some of these issues released this week, but that release experienced a delay. We hope to have it out early next week.

Next Week

Next week, we’re planning to release a Rails update that fixes the issues with the Plug-ins View and some of the configuration issues that many users are experiencing. We’ll also continue to work on Milestone 8b features for the Aptana IDE.

The Aptana team has been working diligently to fix bugs in RadRails and to add new features to make RadRails a more user-friendly IDE, as well as rolling out new versions of the core Aptana IDE.

M8a Beta Installer Release

We released new versions of the Aptana installers for Milestone 8a. Please note that you will need to download a new installer to upgrade from Milestone 7 to Milestone 8a. See the Aptana IDE download page for more information.

New Rails Release

We released a new bundled installation package for RadRails and Aptana this week, which is based on Eclipse v3.2. We are also releasing a RadRails update that should fix the issue with the Rails Plugin View and several other issues. The new bundled version is available on the RadRails download page.

Tips and Tricks

For users who have asked questions about shortcut keys, we have a quick reference for Eclipse and Aptana shortcuts:

Shortcut key Quick Reference

We will be adding Rails shortcut keys to this soon. Additionally, with the release of Milestone 8a and Aptana Monkey (aka Eclipse Monkey), you will soon be able to start assigning shortcut keys to actions.

Community Buzz

Many of the questions that we get on the forum are about Rails configuration issues. We are working to streamline the post-installation configuration steps and you will be seeing these changes in Rails updates in the very near future.

Desktop Backgrounds

For those who want to dress up their desktops, we’ve created some Aptana desktop images:

Next Week

Next week, you’ll have access to a beta version of a new Rails build that contains updates to the Servers View, Rails Plugins View, and fixes a few configuration bugs. Now that Milestone 8a is nearly out, you’ll see an update for Milestone 8b (colorization, Eclipse Monkey, etc.)

The Aptana team continued working on RadRails integration this week by fixing bugs, adding and updating RadRails documentation, and other assorted development tasks.

New Release

The Aptana development team achieved a major milestone this week by releasing a beta version of the Aptana IDE bundled with RadRails. For more information about this beta release, see the RadRails download page:

http://aptana.com/download_rails_rdt.php

Tips and Tricks

On the support forums, we get a lot of questions asking us how to update and/or uninstall various plug-ins, such as RadRails. This week, we added two new help topics to assist you in these tasks:

• Updating a plug-in
• Uninstalling a plug-in

Community Buzz

We’ve had a lot of questions on the forums about RadRails configurations (e.g. “I’ve installed RadRails, but something isn’t working!”). Luckily, we have a Help topic for configuring RadRails, which is the first place you should look to troubleshoot these issues:

Configuring your RadRails setup

Several alert users have let us know about small nuances that vary from build to build in these instructions, so if you find anything like that, please let us know so that we can document it for everyone else!

Next Week

Next week, we’ll continue to fix bugs (both RadRails and Aptana) and continue to work on fully integrating Aptana and RadRails.