SummaryĮspresso 2 and Coda (original) are not very different. I’m not sure how robust the ‘sugar’ development community is for Espresso 2 but there’s stuff out there. This morning, it seems to be working fine.Īs with the plugin architecture of Coda, Espresso 2 uses ‘sugar’ additives to provide enhanced features. Nor did it appear for any file in that directory. I was working on a file last evening and the publishing cloud icon didn’t appear. The main frustration I’ve had with Espresso 2 is that the appearance of the publishing cloud next to the file name has been hit or miss, especially on a Mac running Snow Leopard. Autocomplete and tag closing are nice to haves but not essential. My main need for a development tool is to be able to find a file quickly, make my edits, validate the syntax and upload it as quickly as possible. #Coda 2 pluggin tags full#Since they don’t have a demo of Coda 2, I decided to look at Espresso 2, which does have a 15 day, full featured demo. I know developers can be a cranky bunch but when you see words like “unusable”, “unstable” and “crashes”, it does cause concern. If you look at the reviews of Coda 2 on the App Store, it’s getting some pretty poor reviews. Anyway, Panic updated Coda to Coda 2 so I did some looking around to see if I wanted to move from Coda to Coda 2. I wasn’t interested in setting up Git or SVN. Since I’m the sole “developer”, this workflow was ok for me. I know I could have used Coda to work directly on the server but I never got comfortable doing that. I modified my workflow to open Transmit, sync that directory to my mac, open Coda and start to work. Since I work on multiple Macs, that feature came in handy so I didn’t overwrite something I did the week before on another Mac. The only feature I really missed was Dreamweaver’s function to check the timestamp on the server file before uploading an edited version of the file and alert me if I was overwriting a file edited elsewhere. Several years ago, I moved from Dreamweaver to Panic’s Coda as my primary web coding editor.
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