Comments on: Panic Coda 1.0 First Impressions

By: Chino

Chino — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:33:52 +0000

Yeah,I had many support tickets open with MT about FTP. I used to be able to open files directly from my server and edit and save but they suggested that I need to pull them down, edit, save, and upload again which seems ridiculous sometimes. I didn’t have this problem before with older system but I can see how this would impact Coda since it’s an open connection while editing.

Coda support seems minimal, as well which is surprising. I would like to see a support forum for it, too.

By: Upstart Blogger

Upstart Blogger — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:30:25 +0000

I’ve only been with Media Temple for a few weeks, but they may have changed something in the way the servers work. I have no problems using Coda with AN Hosting, so I don’t think it’s a problem with the software. MT explained the reason to me, but I frankly didn’t pay very close attention. I was too frustrated. It’s also frustrating that neither MT nor Panic have forums, so it isn’t easy to figure problems like this out. I had to call MT twice. The first time the person said they would change some settings on my account, which did nothing.

By: Chino

Chino — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:50:06 +0000

I use Media Temple, too and have had many FTP issues since they switched to the new grid-servers system.

The odd thing is that it almost seems as those this issue with Coda is new, like only in the past couple of weeks.

By: Upstart Blogger

Upstart Blogger — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:23:38 +0000

Chino, if you’re having problems with Coda, but not Transmit, the problem is likely with your host. I have the problem with Media Temple, but not AN Hosting. I’m not real clear technically why this happens, but it has something to do with the way the server at MT opens a connection for each open file. After I’ve edited a few files, MT says there are too many open connections and won’t save anymore. It’s a pain, but when I work on my MT hosted sites, I have to open them from Transmit.

By: Chino

Chino — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:05:33 +0000

Ah, good point.

As I work with Coda more, I’m having troubles uploading lately where Transmit has no troubles at all with the same files going to the same directory.

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By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:09:29 +0000

Chino, I’ve found that I can test my WordPress site by opening the site manually in a split window, then manually refreshing it after making changes. It won’t update changes automatically, but it should refresh. Of course, if the page you’re working on is hosted remotely, you have to be editing the remote pages and if you’re editing local pages, you have to be previewing them through localhost.

By: Chino

Chino — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:26:49 +0000

Yeah, the site I’m testing uses includes for header, footer, etc. I’m not getting it to work in this case.

By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:37:22 +0000

You can preview, but you have to refresh the window manually. Not ideal.

By: Chino

Chino — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:33:50 +0000

Just playing around with it, preview doesn’t work when working with PHP files and includes. Or maybe I need to spend more than 3 seconds using it, eh?

Good first attempt, I love the direction it’s going.

By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:12:17 +0000

I think Coda falls a little short of perfection (and everyone who’s interested has their list of what’s missing), but I’ve already taken Transmit and skEdit out of my Dock. I’m not ready to let go of CSSEdit yet. Oh, and I still use my Transmit Droplets. I don’t think Panic will beef up the FTP client in Coda too much, though.

By: pluto198

pluto198 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:06:34 +0000

Add a WYSIWYG HTML editor and FTP syncing, and Coda will replace several icons in my Dock. Without those features, I still need to have Dreamweaver and Transmit open when working on my site.

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