Gyaan Sutra On entrepreneurship and technology

Tired of creating your websites and CSS and Javascript on your notepad?

Sometimes you just hope that someone would make an IDE which could assist you in developing and designing Ajax and Javascript. Creating on the notepad is not half as much fun as working on the vi. And especially since you have go used to code-assist, it has got really difficult to keep looking up the syntax every time.

When I started with the Web Technologies, (almost two months back), I intended to start with PHP. So I downloaded Eclipse and a plugin for PHP, but it wasn’t really helpful. Matter of fact, I have realized that eclipse is largely useless for everything outside Java. (I would love to hear what you did with it).

I had done a small project in C# before that, so was quite comfortable with the Visual Studio IDE. And I was charmed when I found the PHP plugin for Visual Studio. But it is a one month demo, and it expires now in like three days. No matter how decent I thought it was, it is definitely not world paying for, because there are better options available, like the one I am talking about now.

Aptana is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

It also has a plugin for Eclipse, and RadRails, so you don’t have to leave the environments you love the most. But most probably you wouldn’t need those. But if you are planning to write Javascript or Ajax or JSON, this is God Sent.