Dec
13
2007
| Coda Gripes (and a couple of things I like). |
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| Thursday, 13 December 2007 | |||||||||
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By now, many of you Mac-based web developers have probably tried Coda. In the following rant, I'm admittingly not going to address many of the nice 'features' of Coda, like the included references books, but instead will focus on some prominent (IMO), everyday workflow items that need work. I want to like (no, love) Coda. The all-in-one web development application from Panic promises just about everything you need in a tight, very Mac-like experience. Coda combines a code editor, file transfer client (FTP, SFTP, WebDav), WYSIWYG CSS Editor, and Terminal App into one application. I have Coda set up to open my Sites view when I start the application - and the Sites view is very cool: When you set up a site (much like Dreamweaver), and provide a remote URL, Coda hits that URL and creates a screenshot of the site as the site's icon. 
Great. Fantastic. Looks cool. In the site setup, I can designate remote and local locations to easily 'publish' local changes to the remote site. A local file edited under '/public_html/templates/mytemplate/index.php' gets published to the same folder on the remote site. But wait! I'm connecting to a remote site without a local version - can I "reverse publish" a file from a remote folder to the same folder in my blank local site? Nope. This I don't understand. Why do I have to create the entire folder structure of a site locally, then manually download a file to the appropriate local folder, before I re-publish an edited version? OK. Whatever. Moving on... Now I'm working on file locally. I make a change, save it (Command+S), publish it to see the change remotely (Option+Command+P). Awesome. Um, wait. That doesn't work unless that file you're working on also happens to be the file that's highlighted in the file browser. WTF? Why is it that when I open up a previously opened Site, all the files I might have had open are re-opened - without the ability to turn that 'feature' off? I hate having code files open unnecessarily, giving me the opportunity to insert some random character that will break the code. And don't get me started on the 'Untitled.html' file that shows up every time no other file is open.      Add as favourites (0) | Print | E-mail
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