Today Aptana announced Aptana Cloud Connect for Eclipse (v1.0), a free plugin
for Eclipse-based IDEs that connects projects in Eclipse to Cloud hosting and
related application life-cycle services.
If you are creating Web applications using Java, PHP or Rails, the Aptana
Cloud Connect plugin for Eclipse lets you get all the benefits of scalable,
on-demand Cloud hosting, with the ease of full IDE integration.
Aptana Cloud Connect (v1.0) lets you:
Instantly create Java, PHP, MySQL, and Ruby on Rails servers atop Cloud
hosting infrastructure Scale your web and database servers in the Cloud up or
down anytime Deploy your local Java (.war), PHP or Rails projects to your
remote server
It also includes:
Remote database tools for exploring, querying, and working with your remote
d... (more)
Aptana RadRails 1.2 is now available. In addition to making it even easier to
get your Rails environment set up and configured, for new and expert users
alike this release makes deploying and updating your Rails apps to scalable
servers via Aptana Cloud Connect as easy as a few clicks.
>> Watch this 4 minute screencast.
What's new in Aptana RadRails 1.2?
Easier to get Rails set up and con... (more)
Uh oh! Here comes yet another technology buzzword. This time it’s
“AJAX”. In addition to being a household cleaner, a character
from Greek mythology, and the name of a European soccer club, AJAX is
Asynchronous communication, JavaScript, and XML. These technologies, which
are already present in your browser, make it possible to retrieve information
without refreshing a ... (more)
Follow along and implement the real-time streaming AJAX system in Figure 1
using two different AJAX toolkits and the OpenAjax Hub.
Requirements
The requirements for this solution are straightforward. For this application
we need a ready-made data grid control that will display changes in prices to
stocks when those changes occur. A nice-to-have would be visual indicators in
the GUI that s... (more)
Today there is a spectrum of architectural approaches to AJAX solutions. At
the simple end of the spectrum HTML pages are becoming enriched with simple
AJAX behaviors exemplified by the likes of Yahoo Maps, Google Suggest and a
myriad of AJAX libraries and widgets that have been published. However for
more robust Rich Internet Applications (RIA) approaching the look, feel and
behavior ... (more)