Intrepidation

Microsoft... Nash and Young?

The oft rumored story has finally become a reality. Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion bucks people, that’s over a 60% markup of yesterday’s closing stock price.

 It got me thinking though. We have MSN right? With Yahoo! in the fold, what would the site be? MSNY? Sounds a bit like… CSNY. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Oh well, it amused me. 

skEdit as an alternative to Coda

I tried. Well, I gave it a few hours - I think that counts as trying.

After my well documented problems with Coda, I figured I would give skEdit a try today. After about two hours, I’ve decided that skEdit is very similar to Coda. It’s just not as refined or well thought out.

The projects aspect is very similar to Coda, but more confusing. There is no “Upload All” feature that I was able to find. There’s really no good way to tell if you’re working with a local file or a remote file. That scares me. I need an easy way to tell if I’m using a local or a remote file - otherwise I could overwrite some files that I just don’t want to.

The code highlighting was normal, I didn’t really notice any pros or cons when compared to Coda. They both appear to be missing out on the fact that often times I can’t pick HTML, PHP, CSS or Javascript for the file I’m working on. Most times, it’s all four. Why is that so hard?

So, back to Coda. Hopefully, when I finally reformat my computer and get working with Leopard, my freezing issues will stop. 

Simfatic Forms JS Validation System

I don’t use their program, but the Simfatic Forms Validation sysem is a great. It makes things very easy. Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of documentation out there, at least that I’ve been able to find. Especially for regular expressions.

Here is a regexp example from an event registration form that I created. It requires a monetary amount to be entered properly.

frmvalidator.addValidation(“family_success_donation”, “regexp=^\d{1,5}(,\d{3})*(\.\d{2})?$”, “Please enter your donation in currency fashion only.\nExample: 10.50”);

My problems with Coda

I love Coda.

I also hate Coda.

I love that Coda has a beautiful interface, I love that it organizes my files into “Sites”, I love that it handles the FTP process for me.

I hate that Coda continually freezes on me and I hate that Panic isn’t really doing much about it. I’ve offered my help to them over and over - they just don’t seem all that interested.