IDE conflict - course a new path Mr. Zulu

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Ok, when it comes to Star Trek, or any pop cultural references, my knowledge is pedestrian at best. So excuse the title.

In keeping with my current mission, I've been trying to amalgamate and hasten my learning efforts. To that end I was playing around meddling in the forbidden arts of  Javascript/HTML/CSS/PHP or HTML5 if you will. But I ran into a hitch.

I was using two different IDE's - one for PHP, the Eclipse PDT IDE; and one for general purpose web tomfoolery, Aptana Studio 3, which is based on Eclipse.

The latter supports several technologies, "HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers."1 The former is focuses primarily on PHP, although a few others are present in the menu system.

Now the issue arose when I was redeveloping my portfolio page to something more current and active. When I tried to work off the same workspace to use XAMPP, the IDE's started going a bit haywire. For one I can't access the same workspace when one is already running and one set of folders seem to persist while the other has vanished.

Anyway, i'm sure there might be workarounds for it but for the moment I'll have to forego Eclipse PDT and use Aptana for my main web development mayhem.


1 http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3