Panic, the fine folks that bring us
Transmit, finally revealed the top secret app they've been developing over the past year with the release of the web development application
Coda V1.0. This is not a WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop, do-all application. Coda has a specific target audience that consists of people who edit raw code using multiple tools such as a text editor, FTP client, CSS editor and Terminal.
Coda brings all these tools together in one neat interface. You can organize your files using Sites, edit with the text editor, utilize the built in preview functionality, style your pages with the CSS builder and even access Terminal with one click for those times you need to do a little MySQL or other Terminal task. You can make your changes locally then publish to the web, or edit the files directly on the server using the built in Transmit FTP engine. And as an added bonus, for those times you are stuck trying to remember syntax or learning something new, it also includes access to HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP reference books from within the interface.
After using Coda for a couple weeks it amazes me that this is just a version 1.0 release. Panic has released a 1.0.1 update, but it's hard for me to find anything to complain about. If you are a hand coder, you should definitely check out the 14 day free trial. Coda will retail for $99, but for a limited time it's available for $79. If you are a current owner of Transmit 3, knock another ten bucks off and it can be yours for $69. Sorry Windows users, Coda only runs on Mac OSX 10.4 and higher.
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5-16-2007 @ 10:47AM
kingkool68 said...
Or you could just download Aptana from Aptana.com which does the exact same thing for free.
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5-16-2007 @ 11:10AM
Parker said...
I'm not sure about Aptana, as it looks (at first glance) to be rather complicated, and built more for programmers than designers. However, Coda looks to be an intriguing app as well. I'm definitely square in the demographic it's made for, and it's quite appealing to me.
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5-16-2007 @ 11:28AM
Chris Brentano said...
Aptana and Coda appeal to different sets of users. Coda isn't just an IDE for coding, it's got the built-in Terminal and the Books functionality (which is super handy, I'm surprised nobody else has done something similar). Plus, it makes it really easy to keep your site files organized locally and publish changes either wholesale, updated files only, or you can (like I usually did with Transmit + TextWrangler) edit files remotely one at a time.
I tried Aptana once a few months back and thought it was a nice app, but it has a way to go in the usability department (needs to shed a few more of those Eclipse pounds).
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5-16-2007 @ 11:37AM
Andrew said...
"Finally revealed" ? This has been old news for at least a month now.
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5-16-2007 @ 11:56AM
stopsatgreen said...
"Sorry Windows users" - and Linux users, and OS X < 10.4 users... in fact: Sorry all but 3% or so of the market...
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5-16-2007 @ 1:17PM
Twist said...
I have been using Coda since release and I think it is a great application. The Books part isn't very useful for me though so I wish there was an option to get Coda without them at a lower price. I would also love to see them add in a graphical MySQL viewer/editor similar to NaviCat.
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5-16-2007 @ 10:40PM
ernest leitch said...
I've been using coda since it's release and it's taken a little while for me to get used to it. I've been using Zend Studio for the past year and it has a lot of things that I've very used to. Coda is also a little buggy and some of those things were fixed in the .0.1 release. Panic has always been very good about fixing their apps. I've owned the last two versions of transmit and unison. I'll end up buying coda when they add SVN and fix some of the nagging issues.
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