Posts Tagged ‘software’
Snapshot Coda Plug-in
I authored a very small plug-in for Coda that will save a copy of an open document with a timestamp appended to the name. The reason being that I constantly find myself making small edits to sites that I don’t maintain myself (which makes putting them under version control impractical), and I want to make a quick backup of a file I’ve downloaded before applying my changes. I realized today that it would be worth my time to automate the [...]
Coda Shell Script
As noted in a previous article, I use Panic’s Coda editor heavily. Inspired by Aditya Bhargava’s Perl script Command-Line Coda, I wrote a shell script version for my own use. The usage is really simple. To launch Coda from a command line prompt: > coda Or, to open a file in Coda: > coda file.txt To open multiple files: > coda file1.txt file2.txt Note that if one or more of the files don’t exist, they will be created for you. [...]
Software for Web Development
For the most part, I design and develop on Mac OS X and Unix. I thought I might give out a few tips on building your own arsenal of Mac software for Web development. Apache HTTP Server 2 As noted in a previous post, I use Apache, which comes bundled with Mac OS X, to develop locally. That way, I can write dynamic pages and preview them without uploading anything to an external development server or the production server. In [...]