Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Coda Purchased

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askedrelic
on October 21, 2007
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I guess it’s a big deal to me when I legally purchase software, because I just don’t do it very often. Piracy and other methods aside, most applications I use are actually open source or free. Free software is nearly as good or better than other software out there, for what I need generally. Coda though is a professional web designer solution that is totally worth paying for.

Coda basically gives you one simple interface for everything you would need as a web designer. Check their site, it has a nice design worth checking out purely for the visual effects, but it also explains its abilities better than I can. I basically love the ability to create a profile for a project/site, storing FTP and SSH passwords for easy access, then just focusing on the project, keeping everything combined and balanced in one window. You can have the remote server on side, ready to FTP files using the powerful Transmit engine and files ready to edit on the side side, using the likewise powerful SubethaEdit engine. You can visually edit CSS files and using Regex search for functions. If you want to really change things, you pop open an SSH window without having to login and you can just work.

Overall, I find it has a great interface thanks to Apple’s beautiful design and it enables you to work very quickly. Worth the money!!

6AM Registration

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on October 17, 2007
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It’s been a long time since I’ve seen 6AM. I had to wake up “early” today to register for winter classes here at RIT. I got all the classes I went, so check out my schedule here. And since I was up, I went for a run too! During my run, it dawned on me how convoluted the registration process is. The whole ordeal of registering for classes this early spawns from the fact that the “main computers” at RIT get turned on at 6AM, thus enabling registration for that day, depending on on status. All year levels register on the same day, so as a freshman, you have a ton of competition trying to get registered for classes. The servers get hammered from a few thousand people trying to get on and you IM your friends saying, “Why are we awake at this godforsaken hour!?” Eventually you get in and hopefully get the classes you want. The interesting part is how there are many tricks and backdoors to the whole process, but of course RIT never mentions any of that. Due to the competitive nature of registering, tips and tricks passed down socially have to be part of the process. It’s an interesting system. Oh well, class time!