Designs by Devin

I'm a big fan on WinSCP, a SSH/SFTP client for Windows. It does everything I want it to do and more. I'm able to securely connect to a remote server via SCP, upload the latest patches to my client's websites, and then update the config files using the built-in editor to point to the new configuration. Presto! Change-O! New software is launched.

When I moved to Mac OS X I quickly realized that there is no equivilant piece of software. I tried Fugu. It works and it's free. I wasn't impressed. I kept thinking, "Where's my WinSCP?"

Enter Panic's CODA. It has most of the features of WinSCP, only the main focus is Internet Development. But just using CODA wasn't going to get me into all the boxes I manage. You see, I make sure I know my boxes and my boxes know me, so I use highly encrypted public/private key exhanges for authentication.

To get that working on the MacBook using CODA I have to use this HOW-TO guide to. So far, so good. The only drawback is that I don't have the same paradigm: CODA is more like an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).