Espresso testers selected, beta coming late November

If you've been salivating for a shot of Espresso, the upcoming integrated web development environment for Mac OS X, you'll have to wait just a little bit longer.

An email sent this morning by the developer, MacRabbit's Jan Van Boghout, confirmed the status of those accepted into the beta program, but he also indicated that the top priority was to give plug-in developers working with the Sugar framework "a solid SDK to start with." Van Boghout expects that the company will release a beta in late November.

Espresso, which stares Coda straight in the eye and says, "Yeah, I'm lookin' at you," is from the same people who make CSSEdit, and was announced in mid-September.

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Source: http://macrabbit.com/espresso/

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macxprt

I received my acceptance letter as well. Looking forward to some espresso goodness.

October 08 2008 at 10:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

panicgirl

I'm selected too! I would definitely gonna buy this, and give them lots of feedback!

October 08 2008 at 3:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

Guess will add my name to the "I'm in" list. Can't wait for this and look forward to developing some "Sugars".

October 07 2008 at 7:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

spyker

I'm in.

October 07 2008 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kevlar

Got my invite!
As someone who codes almost exclusively using TextMate, and has never tried Coda, or CSSEdit, I'd love to see how this streamlines my workflow. As Chris Newton said, I'd rather write pure code CSS or otherwise, and GUI editors such as Coda and CSSEdit never really appealed to me.

Espresso seems like it is a bit more flexible.

October 07 2008 at 3:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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David Balogh

Ah you see, but if you're a designer like me coding cleanly (by typing, not WYSIWYG) but wanting to adjust things visually like Photoshop, CSSedit is very appealing. It also allows you to see where you can consolidate code and remove redundancies when you're constantly looking at the live page as you type.

It's also why 90% of the work I see from engineers (not a generalization, more specific to work) doesn't match the endless specs us designers do, and why I do a lot more CSS at work to reduce QA time. Sometimes combining these 2 processes (coding vs. visual) works to your advantage.

October 07 2008 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Balogh

In as well, looking forward to it as I have used CSSedit extensively on all my projects from work to freelance the last couple years. Love it, tried Code for a lil while and wasn't impressed. The Textmate/CSSedit combo works quite well, perhaps Espresso will streamline this and improve some of the small gripes I have with CSSedit.

October 07 2008 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adrian vG

I'm in!

October 07 2008 at 2:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Newton

The thing that this SHOULD get right is the CSS part, which is the part for me that Coda was a total failure at. I'd rather write pure CSS than use Coda's CSS editing window, so I eventually tossed it.

I'm also hoping to see support for Textmate bundles and color packages, that type of thing. I've really grown to use a lot of the features textmate has, but It'd still be nice to have an integrated set of key commands for web development rather than piles of windows strewn about the place.

Beyond that... I don't know. We'll see how it pans out in November when they MIGHT send a copy.

October 07 2008 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Niklas SchrÃ¶der

Got my acceptance letter this morning too. Can't wait for November!

October 07 2008 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mare

Can you fix his name in above article?

It is Jan van Boghout and not Jan Von Boghout. Using the Von makes him German and capitalising makes him American. And both is wrong since he resides in Belgium.

So 'van' and not 'Von'. Thank you

October 07 2008 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Robert Palmer

I've changed it to "Jan Van Boghout" to match his email. I apologize for inadvertently changing his nationality, though I was entirely unaware I had this power.

Thanks for catching this.

October 07 2008 at 2:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply