Being a developer, I spend a great deal of my time immersed in an “integrated development environment” or IDE as they are know in the trade. Whether it’s Microsoft’s Visual Studio, Apple’s Xcode or Panic’s Coda, a well designed development environment makes a huge difference in the quantity and quality of the code being produced.
Panic’s Coda for OS X is quickly becoming my favorite web development IDE. The folks at Panic refer to Coda as “one window web development”, but it’s really a completely self-contained IDE for creating “standards” based web applications.
Coda contains seven main “features” for creating great web sites!
- Sites – Which control your local and remote web sites.
- Files – An integrated file browser powered by Panic’s Transmit FTP client.
- Editor – A great HTML & XHTML text editor.
- Preview – A powerful, WebKit-based browser
- CSS – Text or visual CSS editing.
- Terminal – A built in terminal.
- Books – HTML, CSS, Javascript & PHP reference books.
All of this in a package costing only $79 (USD), a fraction of what all these features would cost separately and a fraction of what Microsoft’s Visual Studio costs. All in all, the folks at Panic have come up with a great integrated development environment at a very (very) reasonable price.
Pretty cool for a bunch of folks in Portland, Oregon.
