Revisited: An Alternative OS X Development Environment
A while back I wrote about my OS X development environment which, as far as I could tell from my own reading, was reasonably unique. At the very least, no one I read who is doing the same stuff I'm doing seemed to be working this way. Although nothing substantive has changed, this morning I found a replacement for one component of that environment that's so good it's worth writing about. Out with SSHFS and in with MacFusion.
MacFusion does everything SSHFS did (which was really just the basics) and seems to do all of those things well. Here's why I like about MacFusion over SSHFS:
- FTP support in addition to SSH/SFTP
- User passwords are saved (using the OS X keychain for security)
- Support for public/private key authentication (SSH)
- Runs unobtrusively in the menu bar - no dock presence
- A nice UI from which I can see all of my mounts and which are actually mounted at any given moment
- Offers an auto-mount option
- Ability to configure the response of mounted file systems when the system sleeps
As much as I love Eclipse, Aptana and CFEclipse this setup absolutely shreds the S/FTP support of any of those.
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