For those of you using OSX an updated version of the dashboard widget dashalytics has been released. This neat little widget lets you view Google Analytics stats using a very pretty interface right from your dashboard. This great tool is donation ware so for all you tight fisted people thats free, we recommend you drop Rob Scriva a few beer tokens if you find his widget useful.
A lot of readers, being designers and developers, will find this article extremely interesting and amusing. I found myself ticking off the various client types, chuckling, and nodding in agreement as I read this article. Well worth a read if you have a spare ten minutes, 12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them.
For all those people keeping tabs on the Zend Framework version 0.9.3 has just been released.
Some of the updates included in this release:
For a full list see the changelog. Interestingly this probably going to be the last release before a 1.0 release candidate. The most important thing to note about a 1.0 release is that all future releases of the framework will have to be backwards compatible. This will make the framework a lot more stable and I'm sure we will start to see greater take up after 1.0 is released.
Don't you just love it when your favourite tools keep getting better? Macrabbit recently released a 2.5 update to their CSS editing and manipulation application called CSSEdit.
In this release comes much needed tabs, at last! A website inspector similar to that found in Xyle Scope and the Firebug Firefox add-on. A Selector Builder which apparently allows you to "Define your selectors in plain English", it will remain to be seen how useful this feature is. There is also a number of other fixes and improvements. A little more information about the release on their blog.
The good news is that this release is a free upgrade for registered users of CSSEdit 2.0, you can't argue with free.
Panic the makers of the excellent Transmit file transfer application have released a new piece of software called Coda. It intends to be a developer workflow application, "what's that?" I hear you ask, well it's a text editor, css editor, site manager, preview, ftp client, terminal and reference guide all rolled into one application.
Miles Evans has written a full review of this application on his blog so head over there to get his first thoughts of the application. At $79 USD ($69 if you already own transmit) it's a very reasonably priced application when compared to other solutions on the market.
MacRabbit has released CSSedit 2.0 and it looks like a great upgrade. Included amongst the new features are a very useful website preview, something lacking from version 1.x, called x-ray which lets you select HTML elements and view hierarchical information about the element as well as margin and padding information. Other noteworthy features are browser integration, CSS validation, style grouping, and milestones (aka, a simple version control system). My personal favourite is their dig at Microsoft "Production quality CSS requires some (or lots of) tweaking to get every browser to cooperate.", subtle.
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