Coda: Fantastic Web Dev App by in Uncategorized / April 24th, 2007
Panic has done it again! They’ve released a program called Coda, which doesn’t do anything you can’t get anywhere else, but it does all sorts of things together in such a way that it makes me want to cry at the exactly-what-I-need-ness of the package.
I do most of my web dev stuff in simple text editors and FTP clients… nothing very special. The biggest problem I have is usually managing the programs in such a way that a quick fix is quickly fixable, and a major project is still safe from accidental bugs. This program keeps the FTP to one side, the editing to another, and includes a library of useful things like PHP functions, so I don’t have to be a moron and keep checking PHP.net all the time.
Seriously: if you have a Mac and do web development, give Coda a try. It’s the first time I’ve seen a program accurately reproduce the feeling of “damn, that’s so smart” that Apple does so well, but for web work.
Now I have to reconsider giving up my day job…
Tags: panic, web development
April 27th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Speaking of web development, you should make the anchor a block element, or take the hover off the list item–I keep clicking on links assuming they will take me somewhere based on the hover effect on the list item.
I do like the new site, though. Very clean, and the font size is much improv’d. My failing eyes thank you.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
yeah, that actually confuses me too. And it’s one of those things that’s more easily fixed than writing this comment, and yet I’ll put it off indefinitely because I’m a lazy bastard.
Besides, I’m bitter about web dev, having spent 3 weeks trying to get a Google Maps API project to work, and having to give up due to lack of time.
I’m going to go find Ber and Ode-ify it s’more.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:38 am
They tend to be a bit of a pain, I’ll grant you — or at least the first dozen or so were.
Sorry to hear about the Google Maps API. I’ve wanted to fiddle with it before myself, too — but the amount of work required to get it going doesn’t seem to be worth the payoff unless there was, well, a payoff.