The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
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Aptana IDE also supports Adobe AIR.
Adobe is targeting users with “occassionally (dis?)connected devices” like Laptops, Mobile Phones, IPTVs et all with Flex, AIR , Flash Lite etc., to enable Rich Internet Applications.
Update : Over 150 people landed-up at Adobe’s “RIA Leadership Summit” help at Oberoi, last evening. Shantanu’s preso was timed perfectly to slightly under [...]
Among many techniques used to reduced the No. of requests to the servers, CSS sprites is a cool one. This simple CSS technique involves clubbing multiple images as one and uses ” background-position:” to define the image display.
Here’s a cool CSS Sprite generation tool
The first ever design unconference in India, dCamp Bangalore witnessed participation from an interesting mix of designers, developers, product managers etc., Over 75 campers and 10 speakers participated at Yahoo’s campus, yesterday. The good folks from Yahoo Bangalore sponsored the event and made arrangement for t-shirts, lunch and Beer!
Read Saurabh Minni’s detailed blog [...]
I am going to give a live-demo on designing simple ‘Web 2.0 layouts’ along with one page primers on CSS, JavaScript, DOM topped-up with a lil’ bit of YUI
This is live-demo is targeted at Interaction Designers who are interested in
bridging the gap between design & developement.
understanding the building blocks of Web 2.0 interfaces
designing next gen [...]