{"id":1247,"date":"2006-09-11T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2006-09-11T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:25:17","slug":"code-folding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1247","title":{"rendered":"Code folding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that something related to web development gets me really excited anymore.  Most Flash stuff doesn&#8217;t thrill me.  Most Web 2.0 stuff strikes me as Web 1.0 rehashed.  But this &#150; <i>this<\/i> rattles my chain.<br \/>\nBare Bones Software has just released what might be the most amazing upgrade to their flagship product BBEdit to date.  <a title=\"Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : BBEDIT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/bbedit\/index.shtml\">BBEdit 8.5<\/a> offers a whopping 160+ improvements over 8.0, but the reason why this baby is such a must-have is one killer feature: <i>code folding.<\/i><br \/>\nCode folding is something I&#8217;ve wished BBEdit would do for <i>years.<\/i>  The premise is so simple it&#8217;s mindblowing: HTML is a language structured around tags opening and closing.  You open a DIV tag, you close a DIV tag, you open a TD tag, you close a TD tag.  So what if you could <i>hide<\/i> everything between the opening and closing tag?  If you know everything inside a particular tag is kosher, why not conceal it so you can focus on the stuff that might be giving you trouble elsewhere?  That&#8217;s exactly what code folding does, and it&#8217;s <i>amazing.<\/i>  This is the single biggest improvement to my web development workflow since Adobe added image slicing to PhotoShop\/ImageReady.  It&#8217;s <i>that<\/i> huge.<br \/>\nOkay, well, it may only be that huge to megadorks like me who insist on hand-coding everything, but still&#8230;  <i>Excellent!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that something related to web development gets me really excited anymore. Most Flash stuff doesn&#8217;t thrill me. Most Web 2.0 stuff strikes me as Web 1.0 rehashed. But this &#150; this rattles my chain. Bare Bones Software has just released what might be the most amazing upgrade to their flagship product BBEdit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-k7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}