I’m really loving Guitar Hero II. I had no idea this could be so fun, so it’s taken my completely by surprise. Wednesday night I played until my fingers couldn’t take it anymore. After beating the easy level, I went to medium and started making some money, so I had to see what was offered in the store. You can unlock more characters, costumes, guitars, guitar finishes, making-of-videos and… SONGS… Read More
Blogging from TextMate, Part III
One of the great things about TextMate is it’s extensibility. The developers built in this ability to add more blades to the Swiss Army Text Editor through what they call Bundles. I haven’t looked at how to create custom bundles, but you can easily enable/disable them to suit your needs. Bundles allow TextMate to do things that I used to need individual applications to accomplish, like using Ecto to have.. Read More
Blogging from TextMate, Part II
I found a new blogging plugin for TextMate, called BlogMate. It adds a GUI palette to TextMate that allows you to visually choose past posts and edit them, as well as create new posts. It also supports twitter and jaiku posts, which is quite cool. I have to say that I’m really impressed with all of the plugin support and addons that the TextMate developers and community have created. It.. Read More
FINALLY getting to do some work
I’m finally getting to do some work at work. I’ve been painfully waiting for an answer on whether or not we’re going to win the contract I was hired to do, so in the meantime, I’ll be the webmaster for one of our big, government clients. The circumstance for my taking over isn’t the greatest, but I’m just happy to finally be getting some work to do. It’s a very.. Read More
Yet Another Great TextMate Feature
I know this option won’t appeal to everyone, but it’s so handy that I thought I’d single it out and discuss it a little bit. If you click the thumbnail to the left, look at the bottom of the preference pane for the option that’s labeled “Save files when focus is lost”. If you’re in TextMate and get an IM that you want to respond to, your document is saved.. Read More