Interview: Paul Colton, founder of Aptana
Published August 30th, 2006 in Web Tags: Ajax, Aptana, ECMAScript, interview, javascript, web 2.0.Here’s a PlaybackTime interview (:30-ish) with Paul Colton, the founder of Aptana.
Listen to learn about:
- Paul’s pionneering pre-Apatana history
- His work with Xamalon, and how Ajax trumps Flash as a runtime philosophy
- What Aptana shares and doesn’t share with Eclipse
- An emerging JavaScript standard called ScriptDoc, and how it helps Aptana support so many Ajax/JavaScript frameworks
- The future of PHP support in Aptana
- Apatana-the-company’s business model (a.k.a. “We love the free, but we also want you to eat”)
Enjoy! A future entry will describe the tools and process used to produce the interview.


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