ELCA Web and Multimedia Development Blog

This workshop focused on getting your computer set up for local development. These notes may not make a lot of sense right now for you, but it may be a good resource for you in the future.

The speaker, Stephen Pignatro, suggested using the IDE from Aptana.

An IDE is a program that helps you develop and write code. A good IDE

• Projects
• Debugging
• Code Intelligence
• Class View
• Supports Multiple Languages
• Source Code Control
• FTP/SFTP Integration
• Database Navigation
• Integrated Web Browser

He recommended an SVN repository called BeanStalk. There is a free plan.

JImports is a library of Joomla code that is very helpful.

A great tutorial on docs.joomla.org explains a lot of this in more detail.

It gets very technical from here, so I think I’ll end this post!