Well, if you’re a developer worth your salt you’ve at least tried out CSSEdit at one point or another. Those same folks that brought you wonderful application are now pushing out Espresso. No, they didn’t lose their jobs as developers and start serving coffee as a fallback. They’ve just come out with a new app that in a small way mirrors some of the features of the new Dreamweaver. The public beta is available for download right now.
Espresso is not a bunch of apps forcibly smashed together. Instead, we looked at the needs of modern web developers and streamlined their workflow into one focused app. Extremely powerful editing, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit!), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools. All this, and an amazing extensible core? It’s not too good to be true. It’s now in public beta.
It is very much in Beta. I didn’t see a lot of the features in their screen shots. And it did actually crash my computer once. But, I trust they will have all the bugs worked out in due time. I’d definitely go check it out and throw a bookmark on it if I were you.
An all in one web developer app
Hey Matt,
Like your site. Always good to see a Duck doing cool stuff. Especially like the Gridiron site for the Ducks. That should bring the recruits in!
I checked out Espresso, but I’ll have to stick with TextMate. Espresso doesn’t appear to bring in an entire folder of files, which is what I need to do because I recently starting working in Ruby on Rails.
Get up to Alta much this winter? Love that place. I worked as a dishwasher at Alta Lodge for the 1975 season. One of the best years of my life. Skied every day except 3. Whew, love that powder.
Charlie Magee
Eugene
Yes, Alta has been a great friend this winter. In fact, we’ve just had four 10+ inch days in a row. Can’t argue with that. And yes, the powder is to die for.