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So long?

Eric — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:47:17 +0000

So, a lot has happened recently, none of it on this site. Got swamped with work, got married, went to the UK for a month, got back, got swamped…

But it’s not just being busy that’s kept me from posting; it’s being satisfied. Since switching to the Mac last November, I’ve been happily using TextMate, Coda, and (more recently) ExpanDrive to get my work done, and I haven’t felt a need at all to look at other editors. This site was born out of my search for the best HTML editor, and I feel that, for me, TextMate is the one, with Coda and it’s site management features pulling up the rear.

So, what does this mean for the site? Is it dead? Well, I guess that’s up to you. I’d like to hear some ideas as to where I could take this site. Ultimately, I’d like to make it more interactive, more of a community, with users contributing their own analytical reviews, tutorials, etc. I’m open to ideas, and I’d like to keep the site going. What do you think?

Software Updates: TopStyle, Transmit, CSS Sculptor

Eric — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:30:57 +0000

On Aug. 23, TopStyle 3.5 Beta was released. 3.5 will be a free upgrade to owners of the current version of TopStyle and includes these new features:

Box Spy – exposes an HTML tag’s margins, padding and content box as you mouse over it in the preview
Ability to apply the current style sheet to an external URL
Replace in files (“Extended Replace”)
Style definitions for Firefox 2, IE7, Safari 2 and Opera 9
Support for PNG images in the thumbnail viewer

Yesterday, Panic’s FTP client Transmit 3.6 was released. New features include Amazon S3 support and the ability to copy and preview remote web URLs. 3.6 is a free upgrade for owners of version 3.

Finally, there’s a new Dreamweaver add-on called CSS Sculptor from Eric Meyer that’s just recently been released. It’s got a good name behind it and hopefully it’ll help those new to CSS get into web standards and table-less design.

innotek VirtualBox and Gardening

Eric — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:07:46 +0000

The first: a “powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.” The second: the reason this site has the swampy smell of stagnant water.

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Two posts in a month? WTF!?

Eric — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:11:50 +0000

Sometimes, in freelance, “when it rains, it pours.” Last few weeks, I’ve been hammered with work (yay!), but I’m coming up for air in order to breathe a little bit of life back into this site (so many mixed metaphors, so little time…).

Anyway, a little while back, I added del.icio.us links to the sidebar. I’ll try to keep them HTML/CSS/freelance related so that they’re useful to readers here. And, I wanted to point out a few of the ones that you might have missed but are worth checking out:

Freelance Switch: An awesome site, with great, relevant articles for web/graphic freelancers. In its own words: “a Community & Resource for freelancers of all varieties – designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers …”

Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces: An excellent article on Linux fonts. I don’t think about Linux much when building sites, but I should. This is a good place to start.

SWFObject: I’ve been working with a designer who likes to create Flash headers, and this is his method of inserting them while leaving the layer of HTML below accessible to the search engines.

BlogMate: Blogging in TextMate. Brilliant! In its own words: “BlogMate is a free, graphical plug-in (+ a bundle too) for the popular TextMate editor that enables creating and editing blog posts for MetaWeblog-enabled blogs, Twitter, and Jaiku accounts from a floating palette within TextMate.”

(Aside: Is the Mac app world more lively and innovative than the Windows world right now, or are Mac apps just getting more press?)

Slightly less flashy than BlogMate, I’ve been using a combination of e Text Editor and the It’s All Text add-on for Firefox to create blog posts . It works, when I remember to use it.

tap tap Is this thing on?

Eric — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:36:55 +0000

Ok, another one of those “fell-off-the-planet” months. No reviews, no telephone calls, not even a single, heart-rending, electronic billet-doux. But I’ve thought of you often, I promise.

Anyway, big news (?) today in the HTML editor world (at least for Mac users): Panic released Coda today, described as “one-window web development.” Looks snazzy. I’m hoping to get my grubby little hands on a review copy as soon as possible.

Also today: CSSEdit 2.5 was released, featuring brand new X-ray Inspector, new selector builder, document tabs, and more.

Do you think Adobe will send me a copy of the new Dreamweaver for review? Anyone interested in me reviewing it?