Question for the Web Devs: Transmit / Coda?

[kepardue]

Is it worth getting Transmit as a standalone application, or best to put that money into the Coda IDE?

I see that there's a 2.0 Coda version currently in the works, but I'd doubt that this would be a free upgrade from the 1.7 on the Mac App Store.

Mainly I do PHP development, but branching out into some SproutCore and work with Ruby.

 

[snouter]

Coda is very reasonably priced and I'm sure the upgrade fee will be reasonable.

I like Transmit, but there are free FTP clients out there - FireFTP or CyberDuck.

 

[wheezy]

Both . I use/have both and recommend anything by Panic; they're a brilliant group of devs over there.

 

[FourCandles]

I had Transmit 3 with a bundle with Coda; although I'd prefer to use Coda alone I still find myself using Transmit for straightforward ftp work because of the two-panel interface ("Your Stuff/Their Stuff"). If Coda could switch to that type of interface I'd drop Transmit.

Try Cyberduck also - but I've found some releases to be buggy and have now stayed with Transmit.

 

[AndyfromTucson]

I use the open source MacFusion to mount SFTP and FTP volumes directly to my Mac's filesystem and then edit PHP files directly on the development server. That way I just hit Cmd-S in my editor and my changes are ready to test.

I run a rsync script at the end of every coding session to make a local backup of the current and prior version of each PHP file, so even if I goof something up by editing directly on the development server it is just a few clicks to get back to where I was before.

 

[kepardue]

MacFusion sounds really neat. Been looking for something like that for a while, not sure how I missed it.

But I'm also looking for an IDE as well to replace my aging Komodo Edit. They've released a new version of Komodo, but I'm frustrated enough with what I have (very slow, buggy, frequently forgets my sites and FTP servers, etc.) that I wouldn't mind trying something new... especially if it's well suited to SproutCore, which is where I'd really like to take my development.

Coda just seems a bit aged (no code folding? only SVN with no Git support? really?), and it seems as though a 2.0 version has been in the works for quite some time. Mainly I was just wondering if the built in FTP capabilities of Coda would (or will continue to be in 2.0) be a good general purpose FTP client specifically for my code. I use Cyberduck now, but the workflow seems like it slows me down more than anything. I like the idea of working locally but having a one click publish to FTP.

Now that the Mac App Store is out with its ability to automatically sync programs across Macs I own, I'm shamelessly looking to get my company to pay for a new one for the office, which will also allow me to use it at home. :-/ I'm awful, arent I?

 

[Mic360]

buy coda
use cyberduck

 

[CANEHDN]

buy coda
use cyberduck

Agreed.

 

[YanniDepp]

1) Are you happy with your current web development tools? If not, and you have $99 to spend, buy Coda.

2) Are you happy with your current text editor or other tools, and just want a good FTP client? If so, buy Transmit.

I used CyberDuck for years before I bought transmit. CyberDuck is OK, but it can be very slow at times, especially when transferring lots of slow files. Transmit does this a lot better.

If you want a good free text editor, I recommend Smultron. It's no longer developed, but there was one 'final version' that supports Snow Leopard.

 

[AndyfromTucson]

If you want a good free text editor, I recommend Smultron. It's no longer developed, but there was one 'final version' that supports Snow Leopard.

Actually Peter Borg revived Smultron and is now selling it as a paid app in the Mac App Store.

 

[Cromulent]

Is it worth getting Transmit as a standalone application, or best to put that money into the Coda IDE?

I see that there's a 2.0 Coda version currently in the works, but I'd doubt that this would be a free upgrade from the 1.7 on the Mac App Store.

Mainly I do PHP development, but branching out into some SproutCore and work with Ruby.

As someone who does web dev I purely use Cyberduck and MacVim. Both are free. I used to use BBEdit but it was far too bloated and slow and then I came across MacVim which solved all my problems.