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 […]

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 (screencast) Google Web Toolkit (GWT) (screencast) Microsoft Atlas (screencast) Rico (screencast) Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) (screencast) Zimbra Kabuki Ajax Toolkit (screencast)

Which to use? Well, GWT is dependent on Java, which makes it a non-starter for everyone I […]