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Today I’m going to review a very awesome new web-based IDE called Appjet. This is for the programmer who wants to write web code without setting up a LAMP stack or configuring a server. Now you shouldn’t use that argument with me, since I really enjoy exploring all aspects of LAMP servers (especially the “L” :) ) , but I digress. Appjet features client AND server-side javascript as the language of choice. Although there is talk of a soon-to-come PHP version. I was really excited when I first saw this, just because it’s one of those truly under-explored ideas.

I programmed a few apps of my own. The latest being “tagurit.appjet.net” an image tagging program, that I’m still playing around with. Appjet is designed to automatically assign your program with a sub-domain. Also due to the fact that you can put your apps in the public directory, it encourages you to keep improving them to keep them at the top of the recently published apps list.

If I wasn’t so anti-social I might be exploring more of Appjet’s social networking abilities. Appjet has integration with the Facebook platform. As well as StorableCollections, which is a unique sort of persistent storage (similar to a database) that you can use with your apps. Also a cron tool that allows you to schedule tasks.

Here’s a screenshot:

Now go out and write your own appjet program, and let me know about it. Happy programming!