Aptana is growing up fast and today see’s the release of the new Aptana Studio.

I’ve been lucky enough to have beta tested Aptana Studio over the past couple of weeks and I think the team have done a great job packaging Aptana into a smarter stronger IDE.

Aptana Studio comes in two flavours, a community (free) edition and a Pro ($99 intro price) edition.

As the Aptana crew state in their blog:

Some of the new features we’ve added to Aptana Studio 1.0 Community Edition:

• * CSS Preview
• * HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Formatting
• * Code drag and drop
• * Visual ScriptDoc Explorer
• * Enhanced Dynamic Help System
• * Tons of User Interface Polish

Some of the extra features we’ve added to Aptana Studio 1.0 Professional:

• * JSON Editor
• * Internet Explorer Debugging
• * Remote Project Creation
• * FTPS and SFTP Support
• * Reporting Engine

The Pro edition will also give users priority support and access to the latest nightly and pre-release updates to all Aptana features.

Aptana has grown to be my favourite web development IDE and if you develop Javascript, you can’t afford to pass it by. Any bugs or issues are usually responded to very quickly by the dev team so Aptana is set to make a mark and keep moving forward. There’s hints that there is more to come from the Aptana dev team too so watch this space.

Aptana is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and as an Eclipse plugin. Download it here!

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The Dancing Trouper.

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Nice choreography and some neat special effects, the ending is funny too.

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My nephew is staying with us this week and as he is a massive StarWars fan i decided to do some YouTube-ing to show some decent StarWars stuff, hence the last two posts.

I just stumbled upon this fantastic video though and had to share it here…

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the missing StarWars movie has been found…

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Who knew that Darth Vader was so taleted?

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By now regular readers know I think Scott Adams is either God in disguise or else has the worlds largest CCTV set up known to man.  He definitely has my kind of humor and has his finger directly on the pulse of the Techie world.

This post had me chuckling…

I downloaded NetBeans 6 Beta 1 onto my laptop yesterday afternoon, it really does look nice. I’m relatively new to NetBeans so I’m no expert but it comes packed full of some excellent plugins and looks to be a solid feature packed development IDE for Java, JavaFX and Ruby/Rails among others. It’s hard to see why anyone would dislike it. Maybe I’ll find some issues as I continue to use it, for now though I’m quietly pleased.

I decided to download it onto my windows box as well. A trip over to netbeans.org will get you to the NetBeans site if you want to go have a look for yourself.

As I mentioned earlier I downloaded and installed beta 1 yesterday, beta 2 came out just this morning… Don’t you just hate it when that happens! Ah Well.

Oh almost forgot to mention netbeans is free! but then you already use NetBeans and I’m playing catch up right? ;0)

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Stick a bunch of developers on a bus add a splash of new technology, an itinerary of stops and an eagerness to share and it appears you get a wild road trip.

If I could find a way of convincing my boss that this is something we need to do, I’d do it!

Here’s a neat video of Adobe’s recent On AIR Bus tour..

I’ve just been to the Ubuntu homepage and it’s official Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon is out and ready for download.

The guys at Canonical have done a fantastic job with this release and have included a new core, Gnome 2.20, Compiz-Fusion desktop effects pre loaded, Desktop search and a lot more besides.

Get yourself over to the Ubuntu Homepage for more details Gibbon on the loose… and the links to download.