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Features:

• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, HEAD, CONNECT
• HTTP Basic Authentication (with Keychain integration)
• Custom HTTP request headers with prepopulated names and values (date format strings and most popular User-Agent strings)
• Supports sending request bodies with POST or PUT
• Follow or ignore redirects
• Optional syntax highlighting (changeable in Preferences)
• Optional text wrap (changeable in Preferences)
• Each HTTP Client window is a document that can be saved as a .httpclient file and reopened later

280 North already have Atlas which helps to speed up the development process by acting like X-Codes interface builder.

Development seems to be falling into a number of camps.

Objective-C for native on the iPhone/Pad/Pod

Java and java tools for native on Android Phones

HTML/CSS/JavaScript Frameworks for any WebKit based.

From the early rather rough days some of these offerings are getting very solid and some are also weighing with development front-ends to ease the pain of development and dare i say lock you in to their framework?

I have previously covered some of the frameworks and will be doing an update in the near futre to do a full catch up.

Anyway two of the frameworks that i missed past time round, because they didn’t really cater for mobile development were Cappuccino and Sproutcore. Cappuccino still has no direct mobile offering, i.e. touch capability, but Sproutcore now has.

First a bit about Sproutcore. It is a framework for writing HTML 5 sites and JavaScript and provides all the libraries and infrastructure to do this. The thing that helped Sproutcore a great deal was that Apple used it to build the MobileMe platfrom and are reputed to have adopted it for much of it’s web building. It is also use in iWork as well.

This is all very well but doesn’t let you build mobile apps with a touch interface. However in April of this year Sproutcore Touch was announced. You can go to Hedwig to see samples of the gestures available.

Finally they announced Greenhouse as the tool to build the interfaces for Sproutcore.

You can get it from here

Having said that it will then tend to be that i am biased towards applications that run well on the Mac as well as offering the functionality required to develop software.

I started my computing career on HP’s with a shareware editor called Editor and a full screen one called QEdit and TECO on the DEC Tops 20 OS. At a later stage after moving to the PC and Windows platform i tried a number of editors, BRIEF which was quite cool for it’s day and is still going strong. However when i got to web development and was an MS user i either used Visual Studio or HomeSite. VS need no expansion but HomeSite was interesting as an HTML oriented development tool but let you get at the code and didn’t muck with the code like FrontPage (shudder) and was not as cluttered as even the early incarnations of Visual Studio were.

When i moved to the Mac i couldn’t take HomeSite with me as it was a Windows only tool so after a bit of hacking around i started to use Eclipse as it was similar to Homesite in it layout.

I stayed with Eclipse which became more useful as the PHP plugins were developed but as i got more used to the Mac the less i liked Eclipse as being Java based it was never quite Mac like. At one point i had a brief foray into Zend Studio, about 2007, but at that point it was not Mac like enough and had Ctrl+key as opposed to cmd+key which as a keyboard shortcut user was as annoying as hell. Ok maybe there were keybindings i could have altered but i am a bit lazy that way.

Some time later i bought a copy of TextMate as i had seen this touted as “THE” Mac Editor and the Ruby boys were flocking to it as well. This i found to be, like a lot of Mac software, the right level of compromise between usability, lack of overkill (see Visual Studio) and because it is native Cocoa sheer speed on the Mac. It’s other advantage is the openeness that allows bundles to be written which add functionality but don’t overwhelm.

Very recently i used NetBeans again. I had looked at it in the early days at the same time i was using Eclipse but then it was completely Java. However now it not only has PHP support but also Zend and Symphony support. THis means it will do code completion etc.

However it is Java and therefore tends to run like a dog on the Mac (or is that just me?) and the interface is back to the messy, busy windows type style.

I think therfore that TextMate is going to stay as my editor of choice  for the foreseeable future.