Highlighted in todays Featured WordPress themes is an ingenious replica of the great CODA homepage (I mention Coda in this post).
I love the simple complexity, or the comlpex simplicity, either way. Essentially the hardwork is done, it is a matter of reskinning for each new implementation. Thank you Greg Johnson for your efforts!
If you are a wordpress developer, meaning you use WordPress as a framework for the websites you build, you might want to take a look at the plugin WP Developer Assistant
This sweet plugin adds a new top level menu item to your Admin interface which gives you access to information and tools such as direct access to all curect Actions and Hooks, all current Variables and Defines in use, and (especially handy) an upload tool which allows you to upload Media, Plugins, and Themes to respective folders, or to a folder of your choice.
If you aren’t too timid, give it a go. I recommend it. You can tell them that I sent you.
So yesterday I discovered Coda, from www.panic.com, in my travels. I don’t remember where I first found the reference [ed.: I was looking at a website of IconfFactory and they designed the leaf icon. I clicked the link and boom, there's Coda] because as soon as I saw what it was and how it worked, everything else fell out of my head.
Coda, in a nutshell, comprises all the tools I’ve ever used to develop a website (minus the graphics, I’m talking code and site management here). A rich HTML/Script editor with colours/code hinting. Built in standards compliant ‘preview’ (aka browser that works just fine as a general use browser), a slick CSS editor, which you can use w/ GUI or hand code, a TERMINAL for my SSH niggling that I sometimes have to do, and finally a set of Reference Books for HTML, JS, CSS, and PHP.I want to buy this right now. $79 isn’t bad, and I have as of right now stopped using Dreamweaver. There are some minor things that I miss already, like code completion [ed.: yes it has it] and the ability to ‘tab over’ entab a selected block of text (Coda just deletes the block, like most other text editors).
I have loved Panic since I started using the beta of Transmit back on OS9. Their design aesthetic has been copied and borrowed from for years (big fat colourful icons, lots of space, etc) and was way before it’s time. Plus they are Mac nerds so it just feels right to use.
I highly recommend Coda if you build LAMP or OpenSource driven websites. You can even use it to write ASP but I am going to try not to.
“I don’t want to search google, nor pay you for your time, but could you give me all the answers I need in order to keep making money at my job?”
“my job that I was hired for because I said I knew this stuff”
i hate mentally lazy people. nearly everything I know in web development I know because I had to hunt it down and learn it myself. Sure I had people along the way who pointed at things and brought things to my attention, but I never would just sit there and whine about it.
You try and you try, and if you can’t figure something out, you seek out the answer, showing your progress/logic up to that point, then maybe someone will appreciate the fact you’re actually trying and they help you out. That is how it works. No on likes a mooch or a ‘note copier’.
On the flipside of that, nothing pisses me off more than working as hard as I do only to have some whiney c*nt get a better job than me because people gave them the answers. Of course, thats my tough titties for not being in the right place at the right time, but whatever, I can still rant at the universal injustice.
Meanwhile, this week is looking up. Some great projects coming up, the probablities are endless!
alrighty, let’s see what’s up here…
I just worked all night, feel rather wasted and headachey. trying to put together a new template for a site. It’s complicated in that I have to decide as I go what I’m doing from scratch and what I can hack together from working parts.
and oh my god it’s -38c right now…
listening to techno keeps me focused. Zombieeeeee
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