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{ Monthly Archives } February 2007

Pot Calls Kettle Black

Microsoft has issued an open letter on interoperability in which they criticize IBM for opposing Open XML as an open standard.

In an Ars Technica article, a Microsoft spokesperson has some harsh words for IBM:

“Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM’s activities that will have a negative […]

Soylent Green

TextMate’s themes provide syntax coloring based on scopes. TextMate comes with a number of themes, but more user created themes are available at the wiki. I have tried my hand at creating themes. Creating a usable and attractive theme is much harder than it might initially seem. (Hats off, then, to theme designers like Thomas […]

Diff Programs Diffed

In my very first post, I mentioned that a lot of tools for programmers are readily adapted to the task of writing. When writing long, complex documents, it is sometimes necessary to compare versions. If you have embraced the power of plain text, a diff program can help. Diff programs display differences between files. This […]

Allan Odgaard Interview

Rands interviews TextMate’s developer, Allan Odgaard, who drops some tantalizing hints about TextMate 2.0:

Things in TextMate are generally triggered when the user does some form of interaction. For example, pressing a key, dragging a file to the edit area, or typing a keyword followed by tab and then based on the structural context […]

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