Coda
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Coda
Monday, 02 March 2009Having recently moved from PC to Mac I needed to buy a new copy of Adobe Dreamweaver, my coding software of choice. Having looked at the Adobe price tag, and subsequently picking myself up of the floor, I decided to investigate the alternatives.
It must be said that I didn't use Dreamweaver in design view. If your looking for a WYSISYG website design solution then Dreamweaver rocks (pretty good, clean code generation that is light-years ahead of the competition).
My criteria for the new software included a decent sized coding view, colour coding, brace balancing, code hints, decent file management, FTP and stability, stability, stability.
Having looked at a few open source and commercial solutions, I've plumped for Coda from Panic software.
Coda is a lovely looking piece of kit. It has a nice visual organisation of projects and ticks almost all of my boxes. It's almost perfect, although there are a few features of Dreamweaver that I still yearn for;
- Please Coda, let me view all the files in my project in expandable tree format. I hate switching between folders to upload amended files ? I want to be able to see them all.
- And talking about file management, I do like the Dreamweaver cache that lets me know which files are linking to each other and allows me to update links sitewide
- File location prompts please! When I type url(../images I want to be presented with a window to navigate to the file (al-la Dreamweaver)
Other than those, Coda is awesome and at just $99 is worth every cent.
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Mon 7th Jun, 2010
Yeah I found Dreamweaver way too confusing as well. I like Coda much better. I don't see much difference in the speed of FTP.
@mrmenellis
Sat 5th Jun, 2010
I tried it, and now I can say that my experiment with Panic's Coda is a failure. Too many missing features. Multiple clipboards for starters
@rikkitissier
Sat 5th Jun, 2010
I really want to use Coda, but unfortunately it doesn't support heredoc HTML highlighting, which makes it almost useless for me as a skinner
@pablod
Fri 7th May, 2010
You know what I really dislike? Dreamweaver. You know what I LOVE? @panic's Coda. Beautiful, full featured software. No bloat.
@Eckstatic
Mon 19th Apr, 2010
@oldhat I only ever used dreamweaver as a text editor , and liked that it could connect to FTP's. Coda covers all of that and is cleaner.
@janla
Fri 8th Jan, 2010
I used to be a passionate Coda user, but after I installed the new Espresso, I haven't used Coda ever since. Great app! #webdev
@ZackKitzmiller
Tue 29th Dec, 2009
Am I the only way that has a horrible time with deleting via FTP in @panic's Coda? Works perfectly in Transmit...
@bdielman
Thu 24th Dec, 2009
@dmkash - Like @danieltott and @bridgetstewart said… Coda's worth a look. Rumor has it that they'll be integrating git as well.
@holeycoww
Thu 24th Dec, 2009
@chriswallace I have also been looking for a worthy replacement of DW text editor. Wasnt a fan of espresso nor Coda - you tried any others?
@chriswallace
Thu 24th Dec, 2009
How do you tab over multiple lines in Coda? I tried selecting three lines and CMD+TAB - didn't work.
@jimmyb
Fri 16th Oct, 2009
reverse publishing and publishing in general is a great SVN feature in Coda. I love this application!
@cmall
Thu 15th Oct, 2009
RT @kmore Becoming increasingly disenfranchised with Coda. So close to a perfect html app and yet so not. Where's the updates guys? #coda
@petebernardo
Tue 13th Oct, 2009
This pains me.... but I think I'm switching back to Dreamweaver from Coda after about a year... I need autoformat and code collapse.
@GenLack
Mon 12th Oct, 2009
I think I've settled on Kimodo Edit with Transmit3 to code on the Mac. Coda wasn't doing it for me but Transmit is excellent, back to work.
@travisneids
Fri 25th Sep, 2009
For all you Mac web developers: #Coda has a great list of third-party plug-ins CSS Tool is great for shrinking CSS size
@motionblur
Fri 25th Sep, 2009
@ianhoar I still maintain that Dreamweaver is the work of the devil. I've been using Coda by Panic for a couple of years and swear by it.
@Whil_
Mon 21st Sep, 2009
Wow... Dreamweaver's FTP is the fastest I've ever seen it. Probably because I threatened it with my trial of Coda. But Coda still wins.
@stupidsucks
Wed 16th Sep, 2009
@iPad I have to toss in my vote for Coda. I tried Espresso and didn't like it nearly as much.
@dkalinosky
Fri 11th Sep, 2009
Seriously, I can't say enough how great Coda is for web design, it just streamlines the whole process.
@vivan
Thu 3rd Sep, 2009
Oh wow, so you *can* display PHP in the Coda preview thing. This makes me so so happy.
@mentor972
Wed 2nd Sep, 2009
@erykmynn I'm a big fan of Coda. Not only is it efficient and useful, but it is very well designed.. Something that Panic does really well.
@gule
Tue 1st Sep, 2009
RT @ygbr: trying to use Aptana... but I really hate Eclipse (and Java), I really love Coda and I think that a IDE should be simple...
@ainsworthstudio
Tue 1st Sep, 2009
for those of you who are website designers/developers - #panic #coda is by far the best development tool I've used. #ihighlyrecommend
@jesstech
Wed 26th Aug, 2009
.@purebloom Ehh, once you've used TextMate for a bit, Coda begins to lack a lot of the things you take for granted, like multi-line editing.
@rich_ecenica
Wed 26th Aug, 2009
@glennrowe #editrocket looks really ugly when compared with Panic's awesome #Coda
@DanDawson
Mon 24th Aug, 2009
Since I'm going to be doing a lot more programming I've made the jump to Coda and am really enjoying it. A shift in thinking and workflow.
@ImagineThatCrv
Sat 22nd Aug, 2009
I've become a big fan of CSSedit great CSS editing software. I think better then Coda, check it out:
@buyXsocks
Fri 21st Aug, 2009
@jimmysmithtrain Don't think so. iWeb creates heavy code anyway. Go get CODA, it rules for simple code edits and FTP on a mac. Not expensive
@eisenhorn
Sat 15th Aug, 2009
It is very uncomfortable in Coda after TextMate. I wish TextMate could also edit files in cp1251 (legacy code). Will try some bundles.
@bohemianworks
Wed 12th Aug, 2009
okay, that's it, I'm done with Coda. Love the features and the interface, but it crashes constantly and I hate the errors while uploading...
@jpsowin
Wed 12th Aug, 2009
I wish there was a combination of Coda and Textmate. Both have nice features but are incomplete on their own.
@Teifion
Mon 10th Aug, 2009
@anna_debenham I tried it but have stayed with Textmate. Coda is awesome for design, not great for PHP/Python
@Kurtnz
Mon 10th Aug, 2009
I see why so many people like Coda, I've only been waiting 20mins for Dreamweaver to work
@vasilly60
Mon 10th Aug, 2009
@hannahnu I just didn't like the work flow of it. I like how Coda/Espresso has a built in FTP client and how they integrate it. :)
@ericwestbrook
Tue 28th Jul, 2009
@iansayre the more you learn, the more you will hate dreamweaver. I really find Coda to be my favorite.
@rosschapman
Mon 13th Jul, 2009
After trying it for about a year, I've reverted back to colour on white in Panic's Coda. Someone said inverted was easier - erm, no!
@AdamKool
Sun 12th Jul, 2009
@rohansharma WYISWYG is for n00bs. Code it in notepad++ or get Coda if you have a mac. Enough said. lol
@kandmkev
Tue 7th Jul, 2009
@inxilpro Have you tried out Coda by Panic? I switched from Dreamweaver and I haven't looked back since.
@mysherbrooke
Sun 5th Jul, 2009
I still don't understand why some folks prefer Espresso (MacRabbit) over Coda (Panic) for code editing?
@travisjo
Mon 29th Jun, 2009
The webkit preview just crashed Coda again. Damnit! I'm not sure if it's a Webkit bug (I think it is) or Coda's fault but it's annoying.
@jasonloucks
Mon 29th Jun, 2009
@cjgraphix That's how I got Expresso. I don't have Coda because I can't afford it. So Expresso works for me. :)
@ajp
Sun 28th Jun, 2009
Trying to force myself to use Coda while finishing a project for next week. It's growing on me again...
@mjhagen
Fri 26th Jun, 2009
@gigihernandez I would have said Versions. I use Coda for all my CF coding (has built in SVN client.) And Versions to manage my repository.
@nevali
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
@pilky y'know, you're right. I'd never actually noticed that it doesn't do it, and I use Coda for *most* of my work stuff. weird.
@BradyV
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
@kurtschwarz Haha, I used Notepad++, didn't like it. Once I get my Macbook though I'll only use Coda. :)
@errolsayre
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
No, Zend, I won't try your Studio 7 Beta just because your getting started video is so annoying. Sticking with Coda ;-)
@chipotlecoyote
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
Starting to really like Panic's Coda. But as one of the seriously underemployed, I'm not gonna have $99 free anytime soon.
@yomcat
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
@findingnewo I've never actually used it. I just like to say it's awesome, normally to piss off the Coda brigade. Works quite well.
@nbrunskill
Thu 25th Jun, 2009
@JustJamie I don't do much development, mostly for personal junk. But I like Coda a lot and Espresso isn't too bad either.
