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Jeff Atwood uses Movable Type for the same reason: it can pump out static HTML. This makes a lot of sense, get rid of the moving parts, and your site will be fa

by phsr 17y ago

Jeff Atwood uses Movable Type for the same reason: it can pump out static HTML. This makes a lot of sense, get rid of the moving parts, and your site will be faster. It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. Its great to have it under source control also! Here's an idea: You could use this in conjunction with Dropbox and a custom workflow to automatically update your blog from the road without access to your home machine (I'm think OS X folder actions would work well here) Related Coding Horror post:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001291.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001291.html

omouse 17y ago
Movable Type is great :D
brlewis 17y ago
You will see more things like this happening in the future. My site, http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/ already lets you use dropbox to upload photos. It automatically makes a skeleton blog backdated by the date the photos were taken, so you can just throw all your photos into a dropbox folder, and when you have connectivity they get uploaded and organized. A guy just told me the other day he wished he'd had this during his 5.5+-year sailing trip. http://ourdoings.com/sailingtripphotos/ http://ourdoings.com/sailingtripphotos/
Periodic 17y ago
> It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. There is, for example, a FireFox plugin to let you edit a text-area in any text editor. It's called It's all Text: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 I use it to pop up a Vim window any time I'm editing a lot of text or doing heavy formatting.
phsr 17y ago
>It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. It's also nice to be able to use your own text editor. I really need to proof-read better. I always rethink a sentence half way through and leave artifacts.... :(

by phsr 17y ago

omouse 17y ago

Movable Type is great :D

brlewis 17y ago

You will see more things like this happening in the future. My site, http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/ already lets you use dropbox to upload photos. It automatically makes a skeleton blog backdated by the date the photos were taken, so you can just throw all your photos into a dropbox folder, and when you have connectivity they get uploaded and organized. A guy just told me the other day he wished he'd had this during his 5.5+-year sailing trip. http://ourdoings.com/sailingtripphotos/ http://ourdoings.com/sailingtripphotos/

Periodic 17y ago

> It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. There is, for example, a FireFox plugin to let you edit a text-area in any text editor. It's called It's all Text: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 I use it to pop up a Vim window any time I'm editing a lot of text or doing heavy formatting.

phsr 17y ago

>It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. It's also nice to be able to use your own text editor. I really need to proof-read better. I always rethink a sentence half way through and leave artifacts.... :(