Talamathi

This happened over a month ago, but a really nice thing to come along was the release of “ PHP Markdown Extra + PHP SmartyPants Typographer Text Filter for MarsEdit .” I still use MarsEdit 1.2.1, well, because I don’t really post enough to justify getting an update. That means some of how this works might be different. But, basically, after you put the folder in ~/Library/Application Support/MarsEdit/TextFilters there is a formatting option to pick the new Markdown and SmartyPants filter. This means that the preview will now be run with a PHP version of SmartyPants , and the enhanced version of PHP Markdown . 1 Blogger doesn’t use Markdown, or SmartyPants, so it has to be converted before being sent. For this, I’ve been using “Translate Markdown to HTML,” from Drew Thaler . 2 This has been updated to 1.0.3 , which I am guessing probably makes the change even easier. In order to get this to work with my newer Markdown and SmartyPants, I ch...

Within eight or so hours of a MarsEdit update, there appears to be a new one . It actually fixes a bug that I didn’t have, but that’s not really what I’m posting about. One of those things that can really make a Mac app shine is the use of Sparkle . Through Sparkle, a user can be notified of updates to their software, and let the software both download and install the update. What’s really great is that it looks like the next version of Sparkle will improve upon this a bunch. Instead of being notified that there’s an update when I open the program, one will be able to update all their Sparkle-enabled programs all at once. I mean, it’s fine to drag the app in to the Applications folder, we won’t have to do even that someday. Oh, and the new MarsEdit is working like a charm. Now I can work to learn all of the things it can do. Technorati Tags: MarsEdit , Mac , Sparkle

I haven’t been posting for a while, and a good portion of that has been due to the difficulty of being able to do a long post. With Bleezer, its issues with saving files make me do only short posts, and that’s not what I really want to be doing here. Of course, that’s exactly what I’m doing here. Anyhow, the latest version of MarsEdit, 1.1.4, now purports to have support for the new Blogger. Already it can see my previously assigned categories, which is one thing more than it could do before.

As has been noted pretty much every where else, MarsEdit is now being developed by Red Sweater Software . As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I got a license for MarsEdit when I bought NetNewsWire . At the time, it seemed nice but it’s really only useful if you actually have a blog. And of course, here I am, but it does not work nicely with the new version of Blogger just yet. Right now I’m using Bleezer , but if and when MarsEdit adds Blogger support, I’ll definitely be trying it. Technorati: MarsEdit Powered by Bleezer

I used to hear a lot of good things about MarsEdit , and since I have a free copy due to having NetNewsWire 1.x, it seemed reasonable to give this a try. That, and I've always liked Markdown . It gives me a standard way to write text files that are easy for others to read. Plus, with a little bit of work, you can modify your favorite Markdown tool and have it output LaTeX. Edit: Unfortunately, it does not seem to pass on the post-Markdown formatting to Blogger. Anyway, never mind this. I got a little annoyed with Blogger’s web interface for posting things. And now, to try some code: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int a, b, c; a = 2; b = 3; c = a + b; cout << "a = " << a << ", b = " << b << ", c = " << c << endl; } Should this come out nice, I expect to post a lot more. Of course, that’d require someone to read it.