Alexei@Nitobi

Many months ago when the first beta of Aptana was released I blogged about it thinking wow, this could be something special. Certainly for the non-Dreamweaver or Visual Studio crowd, Aptana provides a real alternative with many features you would expect in a web-oriented development tool.

Recently, Aptana went 1.0, and after finally downloading it (had quite a few failed attempts with their EC2 server) was impressed with the overall level of quality and polish.

Here are some of my favorite features:

• RadRails plugin – Native support for Ruby on Rails development, including a TAIL on the development log, syntax highlighting, rake task support, and more. Find out more here.
• Code assist – intelisense for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and so-on. It even shows you what browsers certain CSS or JS attributes are available on.
• SVN Support
• Firebug integration – Live integration for troubleshooting JS issues.
• IE Debugging (Pro version only) – Havent actually tried this yet but I’m anxious to give it a whirl once I get a license.

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