Aptana and jQuery

April 24, 2008

Nathan from onWired (a local web company) gave a presentation on jQuery, which has repiqued my interest in it. The docs were always a shortcoming, but Aptana has had scriptdoc support for jQuery for awhile now. I think if I need to do more AJAXy stuff, I’ll try jQuery for my next project. If it’s too hard, I’ll go back to YUI.

Here’s a screenshot of Aptana’s code assist feature for jQuery…

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3 Responses to “Aptana and jQuery”

Davak said:

April 25th, 2008 at 6:16 am

jQuery is what has saved javascript for me. Thanks for the information on aptana… is it in stealth mode? aptana.com gives me a 403.
mgkimsal said:

April 25th, 2008 at 6:27 am

No, it’s been out for a couple years. That’s weird. http://www.aptana.com works for me.
Nathan said:

April 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Trust me, Michael, it’s not too hard! In fact, comparing apples to apples, I’d contend that it’s easier to write Ajax calls with jQuery than with any other framework.

It wasn’t till I got my first jQuery book (_Learning jQuery_) that it really clicked for me, but from then it was a cinch. You can even use jQuery commands on the returned data! It’s marvelous.

Thanks for coming out last night…

Cheers,
Nathan
OnWired LLC

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