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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

Using ExtJS


ExtJS is a JavaScript framework, just like Dojo Toolkit, that provides many rich, modern UI widgets. ExtJS was a collection of function extensions from the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library that, in time, became more and more popular. Through increasing complexity and popularity, it developed into an independent library called ExtJS.

You can get it from the Sencha website at http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/download/.