As a developer myself, I write tons and tons of code for many projects. The fastest way to writing code is to re-use what you frequently write. There is no point re-writing code when you have already written it before.

My old solution was to go back to old projects and find the bit of snippet that I want to re-use, but guess what, this only takes more time and drive you to insanity.

You need a system to store them. It should also let you easily search for code to re-use them.

Snippets

Snippets is a time saving tool for developers and designers. Keep all your code at hand and re-use it in an elegant manner. Saving all this little bits of time adds up, making you more productive.

User Interface

Snippets displays your code in a familiar fashion. There is nothing you won’t understand here. To create a snippet, hit “New Snippet” or use “Cmd+N”.

Toolbar

Use one click to send any selected quote to Coda (or other code editor apps), copy code, email and delete.

Supporting Languages

Snippets supports every language you can find under the sun. Categorizing your snippet with the correct language will automatically set the syntax colors correctly.

Menubar Search

This is a crucial feature every snippet management app should have. In fact, this is the first thing I looked for right after I install Snippets. Search snippets via the menubar. Isn’t this better than searching your old projects?

Accessing Folders via Menubar

Keeping Snippet’s window closed, you can still access your folders via the menubar. In this instance, I setup smart folders for AS3, PHP, SSH and HTML. Take the HTML smart folder for instance, it will display snippets highlighted with HTML, CSS or Javascript syntax.

Shortcut Keys

To call up menubar search or to accessing folders via the menubar, the most effective method is by using a shortcut key. Thankfully, Snippets supports this.

Smart Folders

Smart folders for these sort of apps are valuable. It gives you the flexibility to sort and organize your code. Everyone is different so smart folders are there to support them.

I use smart folders to group different languages of snippets. This way, when I create a new snippet and assign it the correct language, the snippet will automatically appear inside the correct smart folder.

The next time when I want to search or edit a snippet, I know where to look.

Sync With MobileMe

If you use multiple Macs, you will be thrilled to find that you can sync snippets between network computers and user accounts.

Scrippets

With scrippets, you can perform custom sets of operations over selected Library items. Go here to learn all about Scrippets. The default Scrippets out of the box will let you share snippets on Pastie.org, Snipplr.com and Snipt.org.

Conclusion

Overal, Snippets gives you a full featured system to search, re-use, edit, share your snippets and more.

I will certainly be using it a lot for our upcoming projects.

Price

Snippets cost $39.95 per license, but you can get it at a cheaper rate from now till 28 March, (TODAY!) at $30. To get it free, read the instructions below!

Giveaway

Thanks to the developers, we have 2 x free Snippets license code (worth $39.95 each) to give away!

All you have to do is to leave a comment and tell us why you want it.

We will be running this until 1st April, Thursday, 5 days from now.

Winners will hear from the developers via email, it’s only a comment away to win your FREE license. So, go on and comment! :)

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Do you use Coda? But lured by the beautiful color scheme of Espresso? Me too!

I’ve done searching, lots of searching for Espresso like theme for Coda, found one but still doesn’t make me the happiest man.

So I decided to roll my own.

How It Looks

Here’s how it looks:

Closer look – CSS colors:

HTML colors:

Download It!

Download the zip file here.

The contents of the zip file are:

1. ActionScript.seestyle
2. CSS.seestyle
3. HTML.seestyle
4. Javascript.seestyle
5. PHP-HTML.seestyle

Install Espresso Mono Fonts

To make it more realistic, install and use Espresso Mono fonts for Coda.

How to get Espresso Mono fonts? If you have Espresso, right click on Espresso.app in your applications folder and navigate to the destination as seen from the screenshot below:

I do not want to upload a copy of the fonts for download because it may violate copyrights and stuff like that.

Important Note

If you eventually decide to roll back to your previous theme, be sure to export your current theme for individual languages before installing.

Hope you enjoy the theme!

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I don’t want you guys to miss this. If you have been planning to get Coda, Transmit, CandyBar or Unison from Panic, this is the time. They’re taking 50% off the usual price of these awesome apps!

I’m personally a Coda user, wonder how I would live without it. If you’re a web developer, this is a great time to get it.

They say “It’s never happened before, and it’ll probably never happen again. Serious.”

The offer runs from 12:01 AM PST May 27th to 11:59 PM PST May 29th. Get it quick!

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