By crbassett on

Greetings,

I am trying out the new piece of software from Panic, called Coda. It is a pretty slick app, so I wanted to see if any other Mac users were testing it out in their development of Drupal-powered websites.

Obviously, for now it makes a great text-editor and file-browser (I've been using Transmit for months already). But when I click "preview" it takes me to node.tpl.php, which, of course, is not "previewable." I'm looking into finding a way around this, but haven't been able to poke around much since I have some pretty pressing deadlines right now.

Anyway, I just wanted to start a thread on this topic to see if anyone is interested...

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soupp’s picture

soupp commented

Coda is too young to say anything for sure now. But trying it out as well. Looks nice. Let's keep this thread alive.

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crbassett’s picture

crbassett commented

Agreed...this thread could turn into the basis for a good handbook page on the subject.

pcmeissner’s picture

pcmeissner commented

I loved using Coda. The ftp is fast, the ui is fluid and it feels very mac-like; however, I already dropped some change on a great css editor, cssEdit and use cyberduck. It's hard to justify $79 more dollars on this piece of software. Especially, since web design is only a hobby for me. But, if I hadn't bought cssEdit I would definitely consider it.

Phil

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bohtho commented

I remember when I first came to the mac I wondered were the window maximize button was. I was used to only use maximized apps in Windows. I learnt that the mac way was about using windows as just windows big enough to do the task at hand. I also had seen from my Linux experience that the Unix way was to use small specialized apps for every task instead of the typically bloated Windows apps that wants to do it all.

That's why I thought Coda was a bit strange. Especially coming from Panic. The UI is slick, but then again so is CSSEdit 2. And I like the whole override-css-and-x-ray-thing in CSSEdit. Simple and to the point.

I also use use CSSEdit and Cyberduck. And they work great together. Especially since I use two monitors I wouldn't like ONE app stretched across both. Textmate is the chosen and proven partner.

And I don't think this makes me a bitter old man who is afraid of everything new :)

crbassett’s picture

crbassett commented

After messing around with Coda a little bit, I decided to go with a combination of CSSEdit, TextMate, and Transmit. I already owned Transmit, so I just picked up the other two apps. I wasn't able to quickly figure out how to get good previews to work in Coda, since it often tried to load up http://example.com/themes/zen/page.tpl.php, which obviously, wouldn't get anywhere.

Perhaps a later version of Coda will prove more appealing.

pcmeissner’s picture

pcmeissner commented

I don't know if this applies to Drupal, but on a ExpressionEngine blog there is a tip on how to see a live previews for template files. Check it out.

soupp’s picture

soupp commented

I'm on CSSEdit 2 + Transmit + Textmate (or SubEthaEdit). So buying Coda in this case really makes no sense. But newcomers my feel it a good app maybe.

Feature I liked about Coda is you can split window not just to 2 but as many as you wish. Sometimes it's handy.

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crbassett’s picture

crbassett commented

My trial period ended after 24 hours, so I am kind of locked out for now...can't really test it out...

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rayray commented

The latest version of Coda, recently released, is nice. It's fixed most of the issues I had, and handles Subversion really really well.

I generally use TextMate and subversion for Drupal and Rails projects, but Coda now integrates the best parts of TM, CSS Edit, Subversion and Terminal. I'm likin' it.

Not getting rid of TextMate anytime soon, though. But it's nice.