In this post I will cover three Mac programs i use nearly every day. The synergy between the programs are huge. Coda is the newest program on my Mac and it is basically an advanced combination of TextWrangler and Transmit.
Transmit | Panic
The feature list of Transmit is long. Very long needed. I have been using Transmit for years now and still remember when I first saw the little truck icon five years ago.
Browsing the home page of Panic really say something about what quality you should expect from this little truck.
The full feature list can be seen on the home page.
Here are some of the features I really like and why I have used it for the past years. I started to use Amazon S3 a while ago and it is great to see Transmit support Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I can now manage my storage service in a nice Mac-style fashion. You just select a remote item and your will see a preview and will be able to instantly copy the URL! This is really what I really like about this application. Secure FTP in a really nice package has made this, one of my most used programs on my Mac. Read more on Transmit.
Coda | Panic
The story of Coda is also my story of Coda! I used to use Taco HTML Edit, which is another great program for building programs using hand-coding. I simple edited the html file uploaded it using transmit and checked in the browser how the page looked.
On day I just realized that Panic were doing a similar thing and I went to the website, downloaded a trial – and I were hooked!
I mostly code web sites by hand. And Coda really makes this a much easier task. First when you start using Coda you will need to setup your sites. Then, when you’re ready to work you just double click on a site and you are ready.
Coda will restore itself to where you left it, connecting to your server, restoring any splits and tabs, and you are ready to code, pronto. A great feature is that it allows you to easily preview local or remote content and you can edit on which you want. Read more on Coda.
TextWrangler | Bare Bones Software
TextWrangler is simply a powerful general-purpose text editor, Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic it is an advanced text editor.
I used to use it a lot for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac, to writing HTML or other codings.
I think of it as a programmer’s text editor because it features syntax coloring and function navigation for HTML/XHTML, PHP, JavaScript and many more. It’s very god to find differences to compare two versions of a text file and merge the differences. A favorite task where I use it a lot is using find and replace. I can go through folders, find expressions to be replaced just on the fly. A basic task but it has saved me hours of hard work.
Please let me know if I missed something.
Martin Bay | Martin Bay .NET