I have been using TextMate regularly on my MacBook for some time now, from anything like coding to the odd blog post. Having been avid in learning how to use many of TextMate’s advanced functionality I finally decided to look up how to use it properly for blogging. Let’s just say that it has done more than save my life, but maybe I have fallen in love with it once again.
If you are like me, and you probably are, you want to spend as little time being productive as possible. It’s not that I don’t want to be productive, its that I value the free time I can get and like to spend it well being free. I have been using TextMate for some time to write my blog posts, but it ended with a copy and paste affair as well as using Firefox so everything turned out okay. Safari absolutely refused to make new lines using the WordPress editor and so that is when I was forced to use Firefox to exclusively post my blog entries to the website.
With my move to Leopard I decided that I would try to use Safari as devoutly as possible, much like a religion the Apple altar can be, so I don’t clutter things up too much. In that effort of faux organization I went to search (Google, where else?) for instructions on properly using TextMate’s blogging bundle as I knew there was more to it than met the eye. Boy was I surprised at how much awesome I was missing.
In short the blogging bundle allows you to post, retrieve, and update entries. It can also preview entries before posting, upload images to your blog by dragging them into your document, etc.
You can read more about it here, or just watch this short screencast (8 minutes / 30 MB) going over how simple it is to get started. If you are an avid blogger and are looking for an easy way to format and publish your entries to the web, this is it.
Lately since I haven’t had a job, free time has been in an over abundance, and I haven’t been productive enough to offset that time. That is why I decided to start writing daily no matter how big or small the piece may be. Although I wont be flooding Musiny with blog entries, expect one every other day with updates on what I am doing as well as any tech based advice I can doll out.
