Aptana recap: Milestone 10 development continues

This week, the Aptana development team worked on fixing Milestone 9 bugs and development work for Milestone 10.

New Release

As some of you may have noticed, we briefly released an update to the “nightly” and “next” releases (Build 16909). Unfortunately, some of our users discovered a major issue issue with the translations of the non-English versions of Aptana, and as a result, we rolled back this release. We plan to promote a build that includes a fix for these issues early next week.

Tips and Tricks

Many of you have been asking for us to assign keyboard shortcuts to the HTML formatting snippets. Although we have not implemented this feature yet, we do now have a workaround for this where you can modify a short Aptana script and assign your own shortcut to execute a snippet. Read the Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a snippet Help topic for instructions and a sample script.

Additionally, we’ve already had one of our forum users, crazyMichel1, generously create and post a .zip file with several of these scripts that you can download and unzip directly into your scripts folder. Read the forum thread to learn more about Michel’s scripts or to post your own to share with others.

Community Buzz

Many of the feature requests that we’ve been seeing on the forum lately have had to do with refining the user experience with our Editors. For Milestone 10, we’ll be concentrating on features to “polish” the editing experience, such as code drag-and-drop and improving the FTP/SFTP feature. We anticipate that we’ll have a “nightly” build for Milestone 10 available for download in about another week or so.

Next Week

Next week, we plan to release a “patch” release to Milestone 9 to fix several major user-reported bugs, including the translation issue mentioned above. We’ll also work on refining and testing Milestone 10 in order to hopefully have a release ready for our beta testers either late in the week or early the week after.