Go with the Flow

Have I been showing my geekery lately? Not as much, sadly.

But oh, what do we have here?  (There!–>)

Aside from immensely enjoying Firefox 3 now that I’ve tricked it out (See Lifehacker), there hasn’t been anything I’ve found worth talking about concerning geekery other than video games. I mean, web development changes as far as the content you create goes, but the means to do it are usually pretty consistent.

Not today, kiddies. If you are a web developer and you need something way lighter than the nightmare that is Dreamweaver* (you see what I did there?), you might want to look into something that was just recently brought to my attention: Flow by Extendmac.

I have it, I love it, I like how I can edit remote files and use an FTP AT THE SAME DAMN TIME WITH ONLY ONE PROGRAM, and I am really digging concurrent FTP connections.  And did I mention that it’s light as a feather on your OS? Oh, about that: It’s for OS X Leopard only. So, Mac power users rejoice! We have a simple solution, and it’s about damn time.  BBEdit is great too, but it’s nowhere near as light as Flow.

Web dev is a blast with this little app.  I feel so much lighter!  Dumping Dreamweaver was like taking a long overdue poop.  An interweb poop. (an interpoop?)

…Maybe I should refrain from referencing bodily functions when talking about a program called “Flow”, but whatever.  No point in editing that out.  If I have the image in my head you might as well, too.

(PC user? I didn’t forget about you guys. Try EditPlus, which has been around for a while but it’s still notably effective.)

*To be fair, Dreamweaver has made some significant improvements since Adobe bought it. But it’s still heavier than a Scandinavian death metal band and slower than the continental drift, so that’s one tall glass of fail as far as I’m concerned.