Apps We Use: Coda
Panic’s Coda, our favorite code editor
Since 2010 we’ve been focussing more on designing and front end development. And although we haven’t been doing a lot of back end development we still find ourself using Coda almost daily.
We have tried alternatives like CSSEdit, Textmate and Espresso and they all worked nicely. There are however two features in Coda we think are pretttty, pretttttyy, prettyy nice that makes it a winner for us.
Project thumbnails
It’s those little things that are great. Coda shows your sites/projects as little thumbnails which is automatically generated based on the base url you set as remote. It also allows for customization. So if you’d rather have, let’s say a client’s logo on the thumbnail, that’s also possible.
Live team work
In Coda you’re able to ‘invite’ other team members to work in the same file at the same time. It’s also possible to work in the same file together with someone who isn’t on the same network. That makes it super easy to work with someone (e.g. a developer) who’s located somewhere else in the world.
One thing that could use some improvement however is the permissions part of the ‘work as a team’ feature. By default the inviter is always the owner of the open file which leads to the invitee being unable to save the file. The invitee has to depend on the owner to save the file.
Coda obviously has the abilities to set both remote and local settings and the option to upload to FTP, a code snippet library and a browser to show a preview of your work.
Download the free trial and see for yourself.
