In my quest for the best web development IDE, i have come across many different editors. Dreamweaver, Various PHP IDE’s as well as small notepad replacements. For one reason or another, all have failed to live up to my expectations.

I don’t ask for much, i aint all that fussy. All i want is an editor that has syntax colouring, code hints, ftp and support for mainstream languages. Well i think the search is over, for the last 6 weeks i have used with near perfection an editor that has all and more.

Aptana is an editor that is built on Eclipse. It has an array of simple features that you would actually use in day to day development. Not to mention support for additional plugins (as Eclipse, e.g. CFEclipse). It has also fixed a lot of the bugs that has plagued Eclipse for a while now, such as the way it would mangle code during an undo operation.

Definitely worth a look… Aptana home page