Now, Coda isn’t all that bad. In fact, it’s been a web designer’s most-wanted application for, well, ever. It’s got a collaborative text editor, terminal/shell emulator for shh access to the server, web browser, CSS editor, and (S)FTP all wrapped up in a sexy little bundle with a hefty price tag attached to it.
I have dealt with the backwards/standard way of designing with TextMate/Smultron and Cyberduck in the past, and Coda has been a great gift from Panic. However, Coda does have it’s pitfalls:
The file manager and FTP feature: Slow. Really slow.
The CSS editor: In visual mode, it’s the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen or used. I have no idea how to use it, nor do I plan to. I work best with the raw code. (I can “see” the page better that way).
The browser: Nice, handles javascript just fine. Lacking in many essential development tools such as header examination, javascript debugging. It would be nice to be able to validate the page internally or externally.
Finally, the editor: powered by SubEthaEdit, allows for friends and fellow designers to work on the same document and then upload it to the server, without a hitch. Even though SubEthaEdit may be an excellent collaborative editor, it is terrible for actually getting editing done. It has no text completion for many other languages, nor does the function complete function properly work (when you use it, it leaves the syntax hints in, even when you type what you want).

I’m sticking with TextMate.

Long time no see, eh? Yes I know, over the past 4 months I’ve posted probably 5 topics, and other than that the blog’s remained silent. But believe me, there is methods to this madness!

First of all, Snarfer and I are going back to school, *yes, I know, we actually go to school o.0!!!* severely limiting our time dedicated to the greater good of the blog. Believe me, balancing computer work and school work is not easy, and its very time confusing. I have to say though that I am so far enjoying High School, which is a plus.

Second, I feel its becoming hard to maintain a Mac related website, mainly because there are so many out there. Therefore, I’ve probably going to use a more personal tone to the future post, and moving the blog to a more personal site. This should also make the blog a little more interesting. Eventually, I plan to change the header, logo, and title, to avoid the Mac related content, and the sterotypical theme-matches-content issue. But that all depends on how I feel.

And finally, some of you may have noticed a theme change, though I doubt it because as I review the user agents there are hardly any real people that actually visit the site. I rewrote some aspects of the theme, using grey gradients and a dark, striped background to make everything more unique and interesting looking. Also, I changed the theme of the forum to, for consitency sake. *yes, I know, we do actually have an empty forum, in case anyone ever bothered to notice.*

As the last post states, I finally splurged and bought a Katana II. But then there came a problem. Could I get the pictures off this phone without paying for a monthly cost by Sprint? Viola! There is a solution!

BitPim is an application that takes CDMA based phone’s information and saves it on your computer in an ordered view. You can access your PhoneBook, multiple media options, your cell’s Calendar, Todos, your SMS messages, Call History, and view your phone’s filesystem. It is THE FREE, open source utility for your cell! Bitpim supports transferring information to and from your phone, and provides an easy way to access information from your computer. It supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, because its written in Python and its interface is written in WxPython, the Python library to access the wxWidgets C++ library. If your not picky on Cocoa based applications, this is the choice for you!

After a mysterious down period of little over 5 minutes, occurring from about 10:59 PM central time to about 11:03 PM central time, Youtube is back online after an apparent crash, hack, or reboot. Who knows? Maybe the site will release a statement sometime soon…