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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By : Thomas Deuling
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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By: Thomas Deuling

Overview of this book

<p>Aptana Studio 3 is a powerful web development IDE based on the Eclipse platform and provides many innovative technologies and features for developing effective, modern hi-standard web-applications. Aptana has been around since 2008 and it provides language support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, and many others by using plugins.<br /><br />"Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide" is packed with the author’s experience of several years developing with Aptana Studio. It's not just a powerful guide, it's a practical, hands-on introduction to Aptana Studio as a whole. If you want to harness Aptana Studio to enhance your web-development productivity, then read this book.<br /><br />You will start by setting up your own installation of Aptana Studio, and will be guided step-by-step through the various stages of developing with Aptana Studio.<br /><br />You will learn how to manage all your work in workspaces and projects, and how you can optimize your projects depending on the nature of the project.<br /><br />In addition, you will be taught how to work on remote servers or manage your source code with Git and SVN.<br /><br />Finally, you will have a fully configured IDE and be equipped with the knowledge about how to work and manage large web-projects.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Chapter 3. Working with Workspaces and Projects

Now that we have familiarized ourselves with the basic structure and main features of Aptana Studio, let us proceed with the two most important functions, namely the workspaces and projects.

Workspaces and projects allow you to split and group all of your projects and working files into logical and user friendly units, often making work much more effective. Let's start directly and see what workspaces are and what they are good for.

Subjects that we'll cover throughout the course of this chapter will include:

  • What workspaces are and what they are good for

  • Creating and deleting workspaces

  • How to switch between different workspaces

  • Importing and exporting Aptana Studio preferences

  • Which project natures are available within Aptana Studio

  • Creating individual projects

  • Common ways of importing projects

  • Deleting unnecessary projects

  • Changing project natures

  • Reasons for closing and opening projects

  • Improving performance while working with large projects

  • Creating...