Once upon a time I used to be a big fan of Homesite. That was back when Macrodobia had pretty much first acquired it, and I started getting into the text-editor scene and away from WYSIWYG editors (sometime in 2000). As time has moved on I’ve moved away from Homesite and have wandered through a few different tools, still trying to find one that really seems like it suits my needs. I like syntax highlighting and not a whole lot else, typically. I’ve done Dreamweaver in code view for a while, BBEdit when I used to have my Mac (G3 WallStreet Powerbook) way back in the day. More recently I’ve started poking around in some of the open-source editors. I admit to keeping my love of jEdit, it’s a simple little app that’s good for quick fixes and has some nice features (I still love the FTP plugin that lets you use an FTP server just like it was part of your normal file system), but it’s started feeling a little minimal for some of the wider projects that I’ve been having tossed at me over time. So when I saw the EasyEclipse project’s stuff I snagged a copy of the LAMP version and made a go of it, which went well (especially once I got Subclipse in there too) but still seemed a little bogged down with a bunch of features I was never going to use (support for ANT, the assumption that you were using XAMPP and not your own Apache service, making most everything run across their “Projects” system so editing a single text file wasn’t as obvious as I would have liked, etc.).

When Alex showed me a write-up of Aptana (because he knows I’m a compulsive experimenter in these kinds of things) I initially balked at it for just being Eclipse with a different icon. But this morning I actually installed it and have been giving it a shot and it seems to be a little more like the “doesn’t include all the Eclipse stuff you’ll never use” editor that sort of fits my needs so far. My only real complaint has been that I had to hack around a bit to get some of the EasyEclipse language support plugins installed. (They only like to install into a directory with an eclipse.exe file in it, but with aptana there is no eclipse.exe, there’s just aptana.exe. so I made a copy and renamed it to eclipse.exe and that worked peachy.)

You can head over here to get a copy for yourself, and they even have a nice little collection of screencasts to help folks get started too.

Chris: web 3.0 will come when someone releases a browser that bounces you between myspace and wikipedia and nowhere else.

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Just found this over on the SXSW website.

GET OUT YOUR 2007 CALENDAR

While this year’s SXSW is still fresh in your mind clear a space on your calendar for SXSW 2007. Here are the dates for next year’s conferences and festivals:

Music: Wednesday, March 14 - Sunday, March 18, 2007

Film: Friday, March 9 - Saturday, March 17, 2007

Interactive: Friday, March 9 - Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Registrations and hotel reservations will be accepted beginning about August 2006. Join our email listservs and watch this space for the exact dates.

This time I expect everyone to be in attendance. (ahem, ahem, ahem.)

Okay, woes makes it sound like things are all exploding and dying or something. Really it’s just annoying stuff that we’re hitting around the office. In particular: We have a project in subversion, but the client also makes changes to their site directly on their own server. So our SVN and their FTP don’t necessarilly match up. So someone here went onto the dev server (where a copy from SVN is checked out to) and deleted a couple directories to clear them out of the way, then downloaded new copies of those directories onto the dev server. So it has the same file structure, but it doesn’t have the .svn folders in there so SVN throws a fit if you try to update or add your changes. If anyone’s familiar with a situation like this I’d love to hear about it.

After about a month of non-postage time for me to dust things off for a minute again.

Anyway, a while back I unveiled the new version of my bookmarks database (you can see it in action over here) and this morning I got an email from Daniel in Berlin asking if I could share a copy of the code. So, without further ado the code is here (10k ZIP file).

I’d like to think most of the code is fairly self-explanatory. It done in PHP (and the proxy.php file currently uses CURL because fopen() for remote URLs is disabled on my host), all the JS is done in jQuery. It’s still under the CC By Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share-Alike license, so do with it what you will as long as you stick with those guidelines.

(The activity.gif file was generated using AJAXload.info’s system, so if you want to swap it to something else that’s a good start.)