App Pick: textmate★
I just finished my 30 day trial of textmate, and I have a few thoughts on it. Its brilliant. Go get it; I just bought it, and since I am your perfect role model, emulate me. Review over (Feel the love?).
Happy Mac'ing!
Okay so no? Not getting off that easily? Didn't think so.
The new Streamk website, and Dunhenry beta website are all being coded in textmate, from scratch and by hand; that isn't even a bragging statement now though as textmate makes writing markup a precise, web 2.0 activity peppered with loads of charm.
If you're a blogger, web developer, developer, (and I'd even go as far to say: writer), then Textmate may be the program for you.
I personally just threw Dreamweaver 8 in the bin. Although its a lovely, incredibly useful program, it just doesn't compare to textmate's ease of use, minimalistic gui and sleek loading time, or even in my opinion (à mon avis), code libraries.
And thats where I think people are going to stop and muse; Dreamweaver has got to be the main competitor for Textmate.
One side of the coin suggests that textmate is for pros and people already familiar with code; but the flip-side of that is Dreamweaver's price tag. It really doesn't scream 'Beginner level app' to your eager ears (unless you 'purchase' it from the pirate bay... but then you're immediately tagged as a 'script kiddie')
There are some features I'd like to see brought over from Dw8, such as the drop-down code suggestion menu, and the automatic tag closer ( triggered by a '</' keystroke ). However, these little things may not even encourage best-practice coding (of which I am an advocate).
So definitely go on over and check textmate out, on the macromates website.
Happy Mac'ing!
★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Monday, April 16, 2007 7:06 PM | Links to this post
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