Coda from Panic
I'm a sucker for trying new things when it comes to nearly anything that deals with computers. I'd go so far as to say that it's sometimes to my detriment. On a much less substantial level, I find my decisions swayed sometimes by something as simple as "cool factor." While that's usually not the greatest reason, it does open me up to a much broader technological horizon.
Other than the short time that I started hand-coding on Notepad I've been coding on Dreamweaver. I don't touch the WYSIWYG part of the program as well as a host of other features the Adobe program offers. My workflow has become streamlined while using DW so I've hesitate using anything else. That all changed when I got a used iMac G5 this year.
What the Mac community isn't lacking is cool factor. There's always an app or site that does similar things offered for Windows, but with that distinct Mac twist. Coda from Panic is one such application. Coda is essentially a "text editor + transmit + css editor + terminal + books + more!" Nearly anyone that's designing and developing on a Mac has been freaking out about this app. I had heard about Transmit long ago, but there was one thing that I didn't understand about web work on a Mac: why were a bulk of the programs all separate elements? Aside from Dreamweaver and some other forgettable programs, the good ones were all separates. While I see the benefit of separates in buying component speakers it eluded me why it existed in Mac web development.
With the release of Coda that's all changed. You have the ability to do all the tasks mentioned above in one app that has that Mac twist. In addition it simply looks sweet; that never hurts. I'm going to give this a trial run here for a little while and see how it turns out. I'll keep you updated to things I see that are stupendous and things that aren't.
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