Blogging from TextMate
I am in the process of setting up my blogging environment. Part of that environment is TextMate.
I’m a huge fan of TextMate, it’s one of the only apps that I’ve ever been glad I’ve paid for. It’s not an IDE per se, but I find that my productivity just increases when I use it. There are free versions of software similar to TextMate, but none of them have ever worked quite right for me. TextMate is just so easy to modify and change to my specific needs and is so bloat-free that there just aren’t too many distractions.
I find that TextMate fits all of my programming needs. Every single language I have ever tried to work in, I have used TextMate for. Everything from Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Java and more.
I am even making this post straight from TextMate.
I am a keyboard oriented programmer. The less I have to take my hands of the keyboard the better. With TextMate I can be inside of any file and hit Alt+Ctrl+Cmd+B (my own shortcut) and create a new blog post. After I finish writing it, I hit Ctrl+Cmd+P and it publishes straight to my blog.
How easy is that?
I recommend any programmers out there with a Mac, fork over the cash for TextMate. The programmer of it, Allan Odgaard seems like a great guy and has been working on TextMate 2 on his own for a while now, but has promised that all of those who purchased TextMate 1 would receive TextMate 2 for free.