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Rambling, 2nd October
This is a post that I am going to post just to clear my head.
The Mac sucks. There is no good blog client for the Mac. The blog client situation on the Mac is about as bad as the difference between Lotus 1-2-3 circa 1990 and Excel 2007. I am writing this post in MarsEdit, and I have to do HTML by hand. Yuck!
I also used Blogo and Ecto, and none of them really come close to what I need. I don't think that I am too demanding. I need to ability to write the posts using WYSIWYG, being able to paste images to the post and the ability to post code and have the tool do the highlighting for me.
I used to use WBEditor, before WLW caught my eye. Those are real blog clients. I have yet to find anything on the mac that come close. Yes, this is intentionally inflammatory in order to get more responses so I wouldn't have to leave the Mac to post to the blog.
Next topic, Amazon came out with Windows on EC2, which is amazing. It means a much easier time to anyone who wants to handle cloud computing based on Windows. Yes, there are alternative, but Amazon seems to be the main one.
Oh, I was chosen as MVP for 2009 as well, yeah :-)
I would have posted the MVP logo here, but I can't be bothered to write down the HTML code for that, because this blog client is so annoying.
People actually notice that I am not answering to email for a period of 24 hours or less. Amazing.
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Ayende,
Why not go back to writing blog posts on the PC? Are you practicing some type of masochism?
I wouldn't give up WLW for anything, including a Mac.
--rj
P.S. I have a few comments about Windows/SQL Server on EC2 here: oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../...to-oracle-and.html
Ayende,
You are so right. WLW is FANTASTIC, and it's hard to find anything even close to as good. The real question--I think--is whether there's really a paying market for a blog editor of that quality....or is it just something that's too expensive to develop without microsoft-type money behind you.
Josh
a couple thoughts... vmware fusion, search for OSS options, or build one.
I pulled up the scribus website to see, but I didn't see a mention of use as a blog editor. I also looked for NVU editor (site seems to be parked) and kompozer but didn't see any mention of use as a blog editor.
I might run into a need for this to before the end of the year.
Wel you hate to write HTML codes? That is what you are telling?
I'll be interesting to see what others come up with. I just tend to use the online editor for Wordpress, because ecto is not worth it, and last time I tried MarsEdit, I had the same problem as you (I want to write, not edit HTML!). But now I can't try it, because the "trial" has run out.
I just wish the coding robots ported BlogJet to the mac, becuase that was by far the best windows blog editor, when I was using windows anyway. Not sure about how they rate now, but WLW was pretty much a menu-and-icon copy of BJ back in the day.
http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/
Maybe using something like TextMate, and a Markdown to HTML converter might work for you? Not at all ideal tho.
How do you run VS then? or am I missing something...
I've used Qumana on both Windows and Mac. I prefer WLW but Qumana is not bad.
http://www.qumana.com
For that I use Windows, but fairly often I am working on the Air and I don't have Windows there.
Moreover, needing to go to windows to post is stupid, and waiting for it to load take all the fun of quick posts
I guess you never took a logic course. Because there is no good blogging client for the Mac. Doesn't mean that the Mac sucks.
That like saying there are no good seat covers for a Porsche so the Porsche sucks.
Have you tried the blogging plug-in for Textmate?
BOb
I guess everyone else missed the one-liner so I get to be the first here to say congratulations! And if this is your first one, what the heck were they waiting for?
I left Blogjet behind when Windows Live Writer started to mature. It does everything that I want (and I still flip to the HTML view to do things it doesn't provide directly, but handling images isn't one of those).
Now, I haven't checked, but it seems to me that WLW must be a .NET application and I wonder if it might work under mono on the Mac. Assuming there's a decent mono implmentation there. Just wondering.
orcmid, the preview rendering relies on the Internet Explorer control, thus it wouldn't be able to run on the Mac unfortunately.
Currently I'm using MacJournal for writing & editing blog entries. It is WYSWIG but not without fault, either ...
I made wordpress understand markdown and I'm using the textmate blogging plugin to write my posts with markdown. That works pretty good for me. It isn't WYSIWYG but it does the job.
Congratulations on MVP!!!!
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