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If there was ever a reason for me to switch to OS X, Coda might be it. Now, I would much rather swallow razor blades force fed to me by a Burmese Python than make that switch but that doesn’t mean that Coda isn’t terribly interesting — at least for the web development set.

Coda takes everything that you would ever need to build a website (CSS editor, Terminal and Text editor among other things) and slaps them all onto one screen. What you have is an elegant solution to the problem of needing three monitors and two brains to really get anything built in a reasonable amount of time.

It was made for the Mac, so obviously it is a thing of beauty. If for no other reason than that it is worth giving it a look. If it manages to raise your productivity as well, it will be a great holdover until you start doing all your coding in Rails like a good webizen.