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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

Time for action – creating a new workspace


  1. Navigate to File | Switch Workspace | Other....

  2. The window asks us to select a folder where we want to store our new workspace. So because I'm a supporter of using many small workspaces instead of a single, large one, I first create a folder named workspaces within my home directory.

  3. The first workspace should contain my own projects, therefore I give them the name tdeuling and append the date of creation.

  4. Within the Copy Settings tab, you can select which settings should be copied to the new workspace. Workspace Layout will copy all opened views, their sizes, and selected perspectives to the new workspace. Working Sets will copy all user-defined working sets to the new workspace.

  5. By clicking on OK, Aptana Studio automatically saves the opened workspace and closes it. Thereafter, Aptana Studio starts up with the newly created workspace automatically.

What just happened?

We have just created an additional workspace where you can locate some projects...