No Long Days

As I mentioned in my first post I am the proud owner of a fairly new iMac. This means learning how to do things in a new way. Actually this is one of the main reasons I actually acquired a Mac. I wanted to learn about it. Learn how to develop for it. Etc.

One of the coolest pieces of software for the Mac is textmate. To say this is a text editor is like saying a the Queen Mary is a boat. Yes, Textmate is a text editor. But, it is a whole lot more. Textmate is a framework that allows for the creation of bundles. A bundle is a collection of scripts and templates designed to help you perform a specific task.

The bundle I a using right now, to create and publish this blog entry is the blogging bundle. This bundle allows you to create your blog entry off line in a Textmate editing window. It provides for creating links, putting inline graphics, formatting, setting tags and categories, etc. I am still learning it.

This is my first blog post from Textmate.

I am using Drupal for my web site and blog. One tip to using Textmate with Drupal blog is that you have to add #blog to the end of the xml-rpc API URI of your blog. If you don't do this you get error about context type. Drupal has different context types such as story, page and blog. You can create each of these context types offline if you use the correct URI. So for example if you blog is at www.myblog.com the URI you need to put in the Textmate blogging bundle setup would be www.myblog.com/xmlrpc.php#blog. I guess the same is true if using other blogging tools with Drupal. Thanks be to Google which allowed me to find this info.

Here is a screen shot of the Textmate editor with my blog entry in it.