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By: WordPress using Coda and MAMP — kristarella.com

WordPress using Coda and MAMP — kristarella.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:40:23 +0000

[...] When I first heard about Coda I didn’t look too closely because of the price tag, but after Esben’s comment on my Smultron post, I downloaded the [...]

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:26:54 +0000

Hey Esben,
Coda is seriously cool. It’s inspired me to rearrange my site folders on my computer too. There’s no reason to have the number of duplicates I had.
Do you use any databases with MAMP? If so how do you use the reconcile the different database on MAMP with the remote database? Are you able to use the same local folder to test in MAMP and publish to the remote server, or do you need to use different config files for both and keep them separate?
Hope that made some sense!

By: Esben Thomsen

Esben Thomsen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:55:31 +0000

Tell me how it goes :-)

I always prefer a open source alternative, but there are a few apps were Im willing to bend my own rules.

Of course its possible just to use standalone client for FTP, actually there’s no way around if you are a heavy internet user, but when you just have to make a few small edits, then its a really nice feature.

When Im making larger improvements and need it testet out, I always use MAMP.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:53:00 +0000

Hey Esben,

I haven’t tried Coda (pretty much because it’s not free and Smultron worked for me). If I needed more from my editor I would definitely look at Coda though.

Smultron has a few handy features. Projects, for example, I can make a project for theme development and open all my theme files at once. It doesn’t connect via FTP itself, but I can use it as the editor for Cyberduck (my FTP client), which uploads the changes upon saving the file.
There’s some stuff I haven’t even scratched the surface with: snippets, functions, preview.

Thanks for the vid link. I’ve downloaded Coda to take a bit of a look.

By: Esben Thomsen

Esben Thomsen — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:20:57 +0000

Have you tried out Coda?

Its not free or open source, but after you see this video you defiantly sees it in another light.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/14

Smultron is a good piece of software, but I do need some more features to be really effective, like build in FTP manager and the code books that follow Coda, is really a timesaver