Happy Blog-a-versary

I just noticed that I've been blogging here for 6 years now (the Archive goes back to April, 2001). Can't help but comment on how hugely popular blogging has become. Back in '01 there were a few interesting sites worth reading and it was a cool thing to do. Now it's crept into the corporate world and they're everywhere. Was blogging the beginning of a web revolution, the start of the social web, Web 2.0? Heck, I remember back when Gopher, Archie and Veronica were "new" tools to use on the Internet. Yes, I'm old. hahahahahaha

Web Development on a Mac

I've written and coded web pages all sorts of ways and platforms. All the way from WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver or Front Page to Notepad. Even using vi on a Linux box isn't all that bad. I still prefer to work on Macs and so I usually use some sort of text editor like BBEdit. There's a vast difference in web design tools written for the Windows platform and those for a Mac.

One company that has gotten the right idea is Panic Software and their new all-in-one development tool called Coda. It's got a text editor, FTP client, Telnet client and reference lookup tool all rolled up into one nice looking interface.

I've just downloaded it and tried it out once, but at first glance it's got my vote. I've been using Panic's Transmit FTP client since 2003 and it's great. Match that with a text editor and that's how I work web pages on my Mac. The trouble is that there's no way to synch up updated pages and I'm of course always jumping back and forth between applications. Coda gives you one place to work with all your web pages and sites.

Happiness is having a browser that doesn't suck

Oh, it's been a long and unhappy story, these browser wars. Everyone knows that Internet Explorer has lots of serious problems. Here's a collection of happy stories about people that have switched to a better way to browse the Internet: Browse Happy