Time to give writing here another shot
May 5, 2009 – 7:42 am
I’m giving the OSX app Blogo a try right now. More and more I find myself replacing web sites with applications that integrate with websites. Ironically I remember wanting to do this years ago for Livejournal knowing the web can only do so much. Overall I like the application so far and I’m tempted to buy it at the $20 price point in hopes I’ll start writing more.
On the twitter side of things, i highly recommend Tweetie. Enough where I sent the $11 to help support the project. I’ve been a Tweetie convert on my iPhone for the past month or so and really am enjoying it on OSX. I’m still using twhirl on my PC though. It’s odd that I find so much innovation in OSX software in terms of UI and simplicity. Hopefully Windows developers are taking note.
Speaking of the web only doing so much, if you’re a PHP developer and cringe at the though of working with javascript, I highly recommend sitting down with jQuery. We’re in the process of replacing Mootools with it and I love it. As soon as I finally get around to updating our code structure to support dynamically loading the correct plugins, life will be a breeze with it. I’ll try to get some actual decent demos up sometime soon.
Other than that, life is back to working long work days, I’m pretty sure these will never end. It builds character right? Or is it that it puts hair on my chest? The world may never know…