A while ago I wondered publicly if BBEdit was worth the high price of $200 that Bare Bones Software was charging. It appears that I was not alone in my thinking. A new version of BBEdit came out this week that not only offers new features but comes with a new lower price tag of […]

I had never heard of this program until I checked the TextMate documentation and saw it listed as one of the programs that supports TextMate as an external editor. Okay, I thought. They are current with the latest Macintosh Web buzz. I’ll try it out.

Cascading style sheets (CSS) can be confusing, especially when used for layout. They are confusing enough that until the latest version of Dreamweaver and GoLive, WYSIWYG design applications couldn’t handle CSS layout well. Even the current versions fail when you want to do something beyond the basics.
You could haunt the CSS designs sites and […]

Markdown is a somewhat geeky text to html markup language developed by John Gruber. Actually Markdown is also a Perl script that uses regular expressions to convert text marked up with Markdown to html. I’m writing this piece in TextWrangler. When I’ve spell checked it, I’ll go the the #! menu and select Markdown.pl from […]

The future is not in static web pages. More and more it’s becoming necessary to offer web services and frequent site updates just to stay relevant. If you want to deploy web programs and services you have three options:

skEdit. Chances are that you’ve never heard about it. If you edit HTML, that’s a shame. skEdit is a sweet little web editor.
In this era of mega-apps that do everything, skEdit just does web text. It has syntax highlighting, but only for web languages HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Asp, Perl, Python, PHP and ColdFusion. See where […]

Apple has posted an introduction to Ruby on Rails for Mac developers creating Web applications. Rails is the hot web development framwork right now. I’ve only played with it so can’t give an informed opinion. Seems cool. From the Apple site: