Posted by Scott Laird
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:21:26 GMT
It looks like Ecto has a hard time with my previous posting. Ecto completely locked up on me when I tried to edit the article after adding a few <typo:code> blocks. After that, Ecto wouldn't even start up right--it only showed a single article on the blog and refused to let me click anywhere on the list screen, although the menu worked.
I had to completely remove all of Ecto's application settings and cached blog entries, lower my saved article count back down to 20, and re-add my blog, and it's still acting weird. I sense a bug report in my near future.
Update: Fixed. Adriaan spent most of an hour digging through logs and found that Typo was sending the article date in the wrong format--it was using a string when it should have been a date field. That changed in Typo a couple days ago in an attempt to work around a bug with another editor; I reverted it back to its original behavior and now everything's fine. I take back everything bad that I ever implied about Ecto--it's working perfectly for me now, and it's great to be back in Ecto instead of MarsEdit (sorry Brent).
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Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:28:25 GMT
I’m trying out new blog tools this week. I started yesterday with the ecto blog editor, just to see if it works better for me then the editing component of NetNewsWire. For what it’s worth, I’m still undecided. It has a few really cool features (including automatically using your blog’s CSS in its internal preview), and it seems to be a bit more robust then NNW’s editor (it can actually download all of my categories, a feat which has continually stumped NNW), but I don’t know that it’s worth the extra bit of cash.
I’m also trying out the Markdown and SmartyPants plugins for MovableType. Markdown is a smart text-to-HTML converter—with it, you can type:
_this should be in italics_
instead of:
<em>this should be in italics</em>
Personally, the incessant < and > have been irritating me a lot recently. I can do HTML, but I’d rather not have to prove it every time I write something here. Markdown can do more then just italics:
With [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown),
it's easy to do things like lists
* of
* stuff
* like
* this
With Markdown,
it’s easy to do things like lists
The SmartyPanty plugin is less complex. All it does is convert simple ASCIIisms like quotes and dashes into correctly-typeset quotes and en- and em-dashes.
“Bob,” said Tom, “‘you can nest quotes’ was all she said to me–I didn’t believe
her, though.”
I’ll probably also try out the Shrook RSS reader, thanks to Cory Doctrow’s recommendation on Boing Boing this morning. I like NetNewsWire, but it’s really slow on my PowerBook G4/550, so I’m open to looking a new tools.
Update (Mar 25, 2004): Shrook just didn’t cut it for me. It was interesting, but I like NetNewsWire’s Combined View way better. The “smart playlist” bits in Shrook look promising, but it felt like could skim through stuff in NNW 2–3 times faster then in Shrook. So I deleted it. Its an interesting program, but it doesn’t seem compatible with the way I want to read RSS feeds. So I’ll stick with NNW for now, but I’m planning on looking into Gush when it’s available for OS X.
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