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Anthony Short on Espresso


From the continent of Australia and the fine group of lads know as Newism, Anthony Short has written up a great overview of developing (ExpressionEngine) websites using Espresso.

I wrote about Espresso back in January while it was still in public beta. Version 1.0 is now available for download and purchase (59 Euros).

Anthony is the author of the ExpressionEngine Espresso sugar. What’s a sugar?

[A sugar is] a collection of files put together to form an Espresso plugin. They can do all sorts of wonderful things ranging from the simple - syntax highlighting and code completion - to super complex features such as the Cocoa API. The power given to developers is huge. Just about any feature that isn’t present, you could probably create with a Sugar.

Anthony’s Espresso sugar enables tag auto-completion, EE code snippets, syntax highlighting and more. Be sure to read the whole write-up.

Posted on Mar 29, 2009 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Development Tools, Software

Matthew Pennell03:15 on 03.31.2009

The Espresso app is also part of the current MacHeist bundle (albeit not yet unlocked) - an EE plugin might just be a good reason to switch editors. smile