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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 project file


  1. Navigate to the App Explorer or the Project Explorer view, and select the project where you would like to add the file.

  2. Right-click on the project and select New | File to open the New File window.

  3. If you want to create a new file by template, an alternative way to do this is to select New From Template | The programming language | The Template file.

  4. Within the New File window, specify the parent folder in the textbox at the top of the screen.

  5. Enter the name of the new file into the File name field. Be sure not to forget to add a proper extension, for example, .html, .css, or .js.

  6. Finally, just click on the Finish button to complete the creation.

What just happened?

After this process, the file will be created and added to the selected location of your project. In addition, Aptana Studio will open the new file in the associated editor so that you can directly begin to code.

Have a go hero – create your own workspace with at least two different projects...