Aptana 2.0 != PHP
Aptana… What can I say? It has been a love hate relationship, from poor initial 64bit support. Its lack of efficient FTP support. Its wavering pro features that eventually trickled down to the community version, and then removing the pro version altogether.
I have been using Aptana for years, and have had a lot of frustration over its development. It seemed that every update caused an issue with something I needed or was working before the latest update. But when it came to PHP in my mind it was an excellent tool.
Aptana as you may or may not know is based off of the open source project Eclipse. And like many other applications based on Eclipse (Flex, Zend Studio, and more). But Aptana developed their own PHP Plug-in that was very good, and with version 1.5 of Aptana I think people saw a great improvement.
Now Aptana is toting there IDE as the “Leading IDE for Web APP Development” that could be true, just as long as you are not planning to release a web app based on PHP.
Version 2 was released about a week ago along with the news that if you wanted PHP support that you would have to use the PDT plug-in. This made people upset and disappointed.
To be fair Aptana has not completely ditched PHP, they are now contributing to the PDT project. The only problem is that the PDT project was the reason many people used Aptana in the first pace. It is slow, bloated, and not as easy to use as Aptana’s own PHP plug-in.
So where does that leave us? Well if you look in the discussions many people are voicing outrage and that PDT or Aptana no longer tools they wish to support. Many alternatives have been suggested, many are not free. Coda, Netbeans, and Textmate.
But remember i said that Aptana is now contributing to the PDT project? Well they may have made a poor decision in removing PHP support so soon. Without having something significant accomplished for the PDT project like restoring some of the same functionality that the Aptana PHP plug-in had. If they only waited to announce this migration and released the new PDT with an improvement then I think there reputation might have been spared, the php community is not a YoYo and it is on the way down and may not return back.
What happened to the gallery?
What happened to the gallery?
Well to say it short, I have not had time to update the gallery. My new photos are all in my photo blog www.thewonderingphotographer.com But for the past week or two I have not had time to post new images there. I can assure you that as soon as I do the photo blog will be filled to the gills with new images!
Call for Features
After nearly 6000 downloads of my Addressbook script, and a tone of feedback it’s time to work on version 3. There are a number of improvements and features made. Now is your chance to suggest a feature you would like to see, or voice your opinion about something that has been bugging you.
I’m not going to post a technical list of new features and changes until I reach Beta. This brings me to my next topic. If you are interested in testing the script before release please contact me for more information.
Speak your mind!
Everything will be taken into account, but I can’t make any guarantees that your suggestion will make it to production.
How Long Will It Last
This graphic shows how long certain natural resources will last and when they will run out in the world if we continue at the current consumption rate.
The day I saw this I also had a conversation about info graphics, and this came up as an example.
New Home
It would appear that my change over from Media Temple to Dream Host went off without any issues. After months of slow sites, 500 errors, and complaints from users it was time to move on.
If you see anything out of the ordinary please let me know.
-Update
Demos are all presently down, They will stay down until i get them updated.
Thank you.
Updated Layout
I decided to try a more minimal approach to the front page of my site, using an excerpt instead of the standard wordpress read more link, this keeps the blog posts more uniform and allows me to have more per page.
I will also be releasing the last theme as a download; I think it should be a good example of a Grid System Blog Design.
Also make sure to use the social bookmarks on the post pages.
Let me know what you think!
New Job, New Look
I will be starting a new job on Monday working at EventIQ, I’m looking forward to it, ill have a verity of different work from Graphic Design, Service and hopefully some Development. There office is located in a really nifty old mansion the Le Marchand Mansion built in 1912.
Since I was on the hunt for a job I have also updated my site, as I’m sure you can see. I have also created a new portfolio http://www.adampatterson.ca/.
Almost Ready
The gallery is almost ready to be public once again. Still working out some small kinks and then will clean out the old CSS classes that are now unused.
It has been a bit of a challenge trying to apply a Grid System to Gallery that wasn’t design around it. but all in all, i think i did an excellent job.
I may even upload a couple hundred new photos to the gallery. Well see how things go.
Broken Images
In an effort to restore my Site Content from various sources and Re-Importing and Exporting most of the blog images appear to be broken, not sure why, but the names don’t match. The Media Gallery appears to be empty as well.
So as you can guess this is yet another thing i am working to fix. I only wish there was a tool for this instead of going through every post and checking every image.
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