the reindeer effect

Today Panic released their latest product: Coda.
It looks amazing.
It’s an all-in-one FTP client and text editor, and it seems to be pretty much written for my personal use. The FTP client is a light version of Transmit, which I don’t use because I can’t really justify buying it when Cyberduck is free (and open source). The text editing portion is from SubEthaEdit, giving it good web language syntax highlighting and those insanely good collaborative editing features along with a WebKit preview mode. There’s also a custom CSS editor, JavaScript debugger and web design reference book built in. The real kicker for me is its ability to track changes to a local copy of the website and then upload them. Cyberduck’s Synchronize function is stronger in theory, since it works both ways, but it’s much worse because it has to check the update times on all the remote files making Cyberduck’s already slow transfer grind to a halt. And then it doesn’t work for me since my remote server is in a different timezone, so the modified times never match up. This isn’t Cyberduck’s fault, but it makes the feature pretty worthless. Coda’s interface for managing multiple sites is very elegant as well. I imgine that I’ll but a copy before my 14-day trial is up, especially since it’s going for $20 off the eventual $99 retail price right now.