Mountee Brings Templates to Your Desktop
Mountee is a new app which mounts your ExpressionEngine templates as a drive on your desktop. When I first saw this, I thought, “Big deal, I have other apps that let me edit my templates by turning an FTP server into a mountable drive”. Then I watched the video on the Mountee website. It turns out Mountee doesn’t do that at all, but in fact does something far more interesting.
Give Mountee your ExpressionEngine site’s login details and like magic, you see all of your templates as files on your desktop. Notice that you didn’t give it any FTP information. This tells me that Mountee is interacting directly with the database. In fact, you can edit template preferences, create new groups, etc; all without launching a web browser.
Mountee will be available November 1st, 2010, and if you sign up before launch, you will get a special discount. Learn more at http://hellomountee.com
What do you think? Is this something you could see using in your day-to-day ExpressionEngine work?
Posted on Oct 14, 2010 by Brian Warren
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binocle — 10:17 on 10.14.2010
I may be missing the point entirely (sorry
Gordon — 15:44 on 10.14.2010
Wow! That looks awesome, and provides yet another reason for me to find the money to switch over to Mac for development! Is there anything similar for Windows???
isiegel — 18:14 on 10.14.2010
I don’t understand the difference between this and saving templates as files either. It looks like it’s almost the same concept.
Andrew — 01:23 on 10.18.2010
yeahhhh! great!
first I use transmit 3: create templates in template groups etc… download to desktop, modify code, and upload…. so boring!
seconds, transmit 4: great is possible MOUNT the site and update files without download and upload, but! is necessary go to cpanel to create templates.
third! Mountee looks!!! great, because is possible everything with go to template group, without! using transmit! so great! I want it!