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Here’s a PlaybackTime interview (:30-ish) with Paul Colton, the founder of Aptana.
[audio:http://playbacktime.com/audio/Paul%20Colton%20interview.mp3]
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 [...]

Even though I hadn’t really used it in a while, I’ve faithfully upgraded Dreamweaver with each new release. A few weeks ago I dusted it off, thinking that it’d be the perfect tool to start a new project I’m toying with.
Ooof. Dreamweaver has made progress over the years, but not enough. It’s slow, has a [...]

InfoWorld’s Peter Wayner wrote an good overview of the most popular open-source toolkits, including a helpful screencast about each. Specifically, he covers:
* [Dojo][Dojo] _([screencast][Dojo screencast])_
* [Google Web Toolkit (GWT)][GWT] _([screencast][GWT screencast])_
* [Microsoft Atlas][Atlas] _([screencast][YUI screencast])_
* [Rico][Rico] _([screencast][Rico screencast])_
* [Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)][YUI] _([screencast][YUI screencast])_
* [Zimbra Kabuki Ajax Toolkit][Kabuki] _([screencast][Kabuki screencast])_
Which to use? Well, GWT [...]