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Review: Espresso 1.0

Eric — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:56:18 +0000

MacRabbit’s newly released Espresso has clearly been positioned as a rival to Panic’s Coda (review), with each striving for one-window web development supremacy on the Mac. What’s interesting about comparing these two apps, however, is their different approaches to what’s essentially the same basic functionality. Each program is defined by its heritage: Coda shares a lot of its DNA with Transmit, featuring powerful FTP and project management tools. The weakest part of Coda is the text editor. Espresso, on the other hand, is CSSEdit’s much more multi-faceted younger sibling and it has learned many of CSSEdit’s tricks, plus a slew of new ones. As a result, Espresso’s strongest feature is the text editor.

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Review: E Text Editor 1.0

Eric — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:02:31 +0000

I first previewed e back in December, and while I thought it looked promising, it was buggy and costly for a beta. Four months later, e’s developer, Alexander Stigsen, changed his focus from collaboration to TextMate compatibility and I purchased the beta, which I’d initially balked at. Since then, on an almost weekly basis, new features have been added to e and it’s become my main editor. E is a code monkey’s dream.

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Review: HateML Pro 1.1

Eric — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:58:14 +0000

Well, I’m not quite sure how to even pronounce the name of this editor — is it supposed to sound like H.T.M.L. or HATE em el? I guess it doesn’t matter because I won’t be using it anyway. Ok, that’s a bit harsh, but it’s also true. HateML doesn’t bring anything new to the HTML editor scene, and what it does bring doesn’t eclipse what’s already out there. Same old, same old. While there isn’t necessarily a lot of room for innovation in the editor world, there certainly is some room. Look at Coda, for example. Or, if innovation isn’t your bag, then at least grab some of the best features from other editors, as e has done, giving Windows users TextMate snippets and bundles. Don’t get me wrong: HateML isn’t a bad editor; it just doesn’t stand out in an incredibly crowded market.

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Review: Coda 1.0

Eric — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:24:06 +0000

There has already been so much talk about Coda, Panic’s foray into the world of HTML editors, I hardly know what I can add. It’s a startlingly good 1.0 release, to be sure, but it’s certainly not perfect. As an HTML editor alone, it doesn’t really stack up to its more powerful competitors (TextMate, for example), but, as an all-in-one tool, it’s quite an elegant solution.

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Review: ExpressionEngine 1.5

Eric — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:53:52 +0000

Yeah, I know — ExpressionEngine’s not an HTML editor. But it is a damn handy piece of software for putting websites together. Plus news of EE has been making its rounds in the blogosphere of late, thanks to the re-branding of EllisLab (formerly pMachine). Plus I’ve recently built two sites using EE, so it’s fresh in my mind. Plus, it’s my site and I’ll do what I want. ;)

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