Yeah, I am announcing the alpha test of my application Develop.

This is a plain-jane Code editor that I built mainly for myself.  I have used BBedit exclusively for the past 4 years, and find it to be an incredibly well rounded and powerful code editor.  Unfortunately it has lagged behind in the areas that are important to me; they have been adding features that I am sure are great for you perlmongers out there, but not me.

In my opinion any code editor that runs on Panther, should really have WebKit built in so that you can preview your code in realtime via this incredibly powerful and flexible peice of technology.  As of this publishing I have not found one, so I thought that I would just write it.

So that was 5 days ago, and today I have a pretty impressive little app here.  It has rudimentary syntax coloring built in, as well as some nifty shortcut key combos to insert various HTML entities and such.  There is really too much to cover here, so my advice would be to download the alpha and give it a go, I mean it only weighs in at 244 kb, seriously.

So there you go, please take Develop for a test drive, and let me know what you think; good, bad and ugly.  You will find an email addy in the readme file that accompanies the app.  Screenshots to follow.

Here you go to get it: Develop.