sync coda, espresso, textmate across multiple computers with dropbox
if you don’t use dropbox, the multi-platformed, cloud-backed-up, version-tracking storage-and-sharing application, you are most likely a) uninformed or b) an idiot. it’s one of those ‘how did i live without it’ kinds of things.
recently i started unlocking a new batch of syncing/redundancy potential through the process of creating symbolic links, which are aliases that jump to a different directory on your system. with these, you can dropbox-ize folders that would normally reside in your ~/Library directory. for example, crack open a terminal window =>
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate ~/Dropbox
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Textmate ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate
this would move your textmate bundles and preferences to your dropbox, but to your mac, it would seem to be in the same location. to use the same textmate folder on a different mac, back-up your ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate folder and run the 2nd command on that machine. the same process should work for coda or espresso.
for more info on what else you can do with dropbox, check out dropbox’s wiki page.
