It’s good to see that my website does handle IE7 fine.  Aside from that, I should post a bit of an update.  In the past two months, I got a new job and moved up to Boston.  i will be strating everything back up again soon, in case you are still waiting patiently.  (If so, thanks)

In my new job, I am blessed (HA) with a Windows development box.  This has been awhile for me.  I thinks that it has been five years since I have done web development on a Windows machine.  The world has changed a bit since I left; I’m just trying to figure out how.

For development, I have been working with Dreamweaver (pretty much the same as five years ago, except that I now strictly use code view).  Photoshop is the same throughout. 

In a month, I have lost at least two days of total time to Windows Update and AV updates.  The OS is still slow and feels cludgy (more so than Linux even).  I come home at night and enjoy simple acts of checking mail and surfing the web on the Mac.

Being on the OS does allow me to try out some of the new toys (reviews of which are forth coming).  I am actually writing this on Windows Live Writer and it actually seems to be fairly intuitive.  Here’s to a brave new world.

Wow, what an exciting entry I’m writing for you guys today. That’s right; I’ve switched my text editor. I know that some people out there are what I like to call “text sluts,” but I’ve been fairly true to my BBEdit. It has been my standard for years, even with its blemishes.

The difficulty in getting line numbers has constantly made debugging painful, and don’t even get me started on the lack of tabs. I could write an entire entry on how every application needs tabs, but I digress.

Regardless for those complaints, every time I’ve tried a new application, I find myself missing BBEdit. Maybe it comes from my old Emacs days, a desire to cause myself pain, or just fear of change, but nothing has been able to tear me away. Until now.

Smultron has quickly eased any fears I have had from moving away from BBEdit. I couldn’t have found a text editor that just “feels” right any more. If you are a Mac web developer, download it and give it a shot. It’s open source, but only works on Mac OS 10.4.5 or later. If you can run it, you will love it.