Need more sound effects for your multimedia or game project ? More and more sites are turning into commercial based sound clip previewer rather than free sound resources. Having to find the correct sound for your project but, later to find out the sound is copyrighted or for sale is indeed frustration at times.

Fortunately enough , this site – freesound.org offers royalty free and free for all sounds recordings from various content providers around the world. You can safely use some of these music, sound effect found there to use for your projects. Besides that, you can create an account and contribute too.

Go ahead check it out here.

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I like to close unwanted views and combine three of my mostly used View into ones dock to the left side of the IDE namely, File, Project and Snippets.

Let’s move on, we will then need to create our own set of snippets – be it JS script, XML, HTML, CSS or whatever you are programming with this IDE.

First, create a new default web project. For this tutorial – I’m going guide you all in writing your first Javascript Alerter with user input support. Name the project Aptana Snippets. Proceed by creating snippets folder inside this project.

Now, inside the snippets folder add an empty js file. Let’s called it myMsgBox.js

DELETE everything including remarks statement generated by Aptana in myMsgBox.js

Type in the javascript like below for example.

/*
	category: Titoonic
	name: My Message Box
	toolbar: true
	language: text/javascript
	toolTip: My Message Box
	prompt(msg): Message
 
*/
alert("{$msg}");

Notice, the remarks are very context specific – which means you have to make sure you follow Aptana IDE snippet remark syntax to bind them to snippet view. Category : means the folder that will appear in Snippets View. You should create your own Category because, there’s a lot of snippets categories in there already – best to start one your own to avoid confusion.

Notice there’s also prompt(variablename): Title, by inserting this – you can assign variables to the actual snippet with {$variablename}. In our case {$msg} was our variable name. You can add more than one variable name by adding more prompt{variablename} : Title and matching it with the codes.

Once, you save – Aptana will create a reference based on your remark statement and update the Snippet view. Please make sure no space are above the remark statement – else it will not work.

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Over the weekends when I in Singapore, I ran across this old comic of Archie and friends. Suddenly, that reminds me of an article I used to read in a magazine regarding history of search engines. You are wondering what I’m talking about right ? What does Archie Comic got to do with  Search Engine?

Well, to tell you the truth…according to the history of Search Engine. In early 90s when the world wide web is still young at age, FTP is the only means to share files across the net. Then, came along a young programmer called Alan Emtage developed a useful software which compiled site listings of FTPs. Users can type a search term or query to retrieve the list. Guess what he called that software? “ARCHIE” yup, Archie was the first search engine ever created for web.

Figure 1.1 : Archie Search Engine

In 1993, with Archie growing in fame considerably, the students in University of Nevada developed another engine to search gopher files (an old version of html but only in plain text) – thus “VERONICA” was born!

Figure 1.2 : Veronica Search Engine

Later on they even created an alternative version to VERONICA which is JUGHEAD – lmao looks like almost the whole ARCHIE and friends are in the web. Hmmm…what an interesting historical lesson

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