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Use Aptana to fix your Timeline, when you're frustrated and unable to
restore the JSON local_data.js file, when you realize you're years away
from understanding JAVA script or JSON but have a deadline looming.

If your level of expertise is really none with JScript and JSON but capable
of entering JSON events until it breaks but the errant comma still eludes
you, you could likely benefit from download and installing Aptana Studio
Pro and absolutely free as of this writing, no catch, no shareware, you
don't even need to give your email address.
The installation is troublefree it doesn't require Microsoft .net (vwaamit)
and it has spellchecker ease of use.
Start Aptana and like any word processor, point it at your .js file and it
will immediately post error markers underlining errors offering fixes. (see
attached screenshot)

At the time of this posting and ever since I've used Timeline, I've never
found a worthy debugger ALSO STRAIGHTFORWARD FOR THE NOVICE, let alone the
end user struggling with some a JSON file after formatting their HTML or
using someones else's templates. We've used Scite, Eclipse, MS Frontpage
and old fashioned Notepad.exe to edit these files, the online resources
claiming to troubleshoot JSON are hardly that since many will just choke on
the Local_data.js file unable to recognize it, or unreliable JAVA applets
requiring modified JRE parameters to launch or too BETA themselves and they
race your Iexplore.exe process when crashing into the soil.
All of the aforementioned suites are fine solutions (with the exception of
Microsoft), exceptional and often intended for a developer seeking tools to
streamline their coding techniques. 

Aptana seems like a developer suite but is the first in all of my extensive
searches capable of just pointing out the syntax error.

Microsoft FrontPage on the other hand insidiously scrolls the .js file
every time you type and no one can explain that one. I know its sunset but
I'm not gonna upgrade to their latest package of .net whatever and
upgrading your MS product for another is just trading misery for pain.
They're still unwilling to acknowledge Java's existence and I'm gonna lose
my fuddamucking mind if I'm prompted one more time to install Silverlight
while I'm browsing their site for another hotfix to another one of their
problems!!!

Call me and this posting out of scope or irrelevant since Timeline and JSON
were never meant for the end user, JSON was never intended to be as easy as
a word processor and I agree, I've often discouraged anyone from adopting
solutions with arrogance w/o comprehension. Simile Timeline is filling a
wide gap of small / medium size businesses lacking a graphic arts
department that would normally lay out a linear chronology, the number of
law firms that have embraced it has grown steadily and surged in my
experiences for some time now. Before, they'd struggle with drafting
applications like Visio and Imagine Engineering and it is tedious w/o any
balancing mechanisms so adding a forgotten event between two would result
in an entire day of click and drag to justify it all out.

A personal injury and negligence case can easily fill up 500 events by
trial and everything except for Simile just chokes, unable to load so many
events the chronology is often saved in parts and specially arranged into a
folder while a para holds their left finger to click through.  The entire
profession has suffered these limitations and reached an equilibrium like
any other era of warfare constrained by basic throwing tools or bladed
instruments. Simile Timeline is the same as taking Airwolf back to the 12th
Century, most cases settle before trial  but watching the opposing teams
reaction when viewing the case against them illustrated as cleanly as this
stuff with two clicks to the collateral has an effect. In trial and during
opening arguments, I witnessed a jury even the judges eyebrows express
approval when a timeline with descriptions appears in the overhead since
chronologies are usually word docs and the format strains the reader worse
than reading a mutual fund prospectus.
Lawfirms aren't in danger of overspending for IT or infrastructure that
doesn't fit in their pocket and salaried JScript developers aren't an
option unless they're willing to run errands in between cases and sharing
the details of your case with someone at guru.com or another contractor
isn't worth the risk.

I don't work for aptana, I'm not soliciting for investors or considering
the idea of designing easy to use input interfaces, but rest assured if the
original authors wanted to revise and maintain Timeline, they'd walk into
an eager marketplace more than happy to pay a licensing fee, more than
happy to pay for incident based and maintenance support.

To wrap, I was once in a deposition chamber offering IT support for the
plantiff's team and the defense side proudly threw up their own  Simile
Timeline but shrinked an empty mspaint or other window and anchored it on
top of all other windows so it hovered over / blocked the lower corner with
the Simile thumbprint. Those goons were so happy with themselves and
impressed enough to covet their new presentation too keep it a "secret".

The userbase and underserved marketplace is out there and they'll likely
find Aptana and comparable software easy to use and ready to consider
licensing fees versus watching their para's struggle with troubleshooting JS.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eaglesp...@bigstring.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 5:11

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forgot the links but easy enough and if you still need some guidance, visit 
here and
download Aptana's Studio, free, no strings, no registration and 125MB is fairly 
small
for a development suite like this.

http://www.aptana.org

http://www.aptana.org/studio

Original comment by eaglesp...@bigstring.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 5:16

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