Oct
13

aptana

Aptana Studio is a powerful IDE for web development. It supports HTML, CSS, Javascript and the server side script such as PHP, Ruby and Python. Even more, it support a wide variety of Javascript library. It based on Eclipse and available as a standalone application or as a plugin for Eclipse. Aptana Studio is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. And the best of all is, Aptana Studio is free. Here I will post how I install the recent version of standalone Aptana Studio, 1.5, on 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

First of all, download the Aptana Studio on http://www.aptana.org, choose the Linux and 32 bit version, or change it accordingly to suit your machine. Before we start installing the Aptana Studio, we need to ensure we have installed the sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. To do that, simply type this in terminal

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Dec
11

JQuery is Javascript library that can help you write code smaller and easier to take a good care of event handling, animating, AJAX and more. With jQuery, we can make our webpages more beautiful. You can see that I used it for my side menu here. :)

This article didn’t intend to teach you how to became the jQuery master and I’m far away from a master. It just for the case you didn’t know about jQuery yet and want to start with it, then this will be a good guide for you. If you want a more complete tutorial, go to the jQuery documentation.

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