Is TextMate 2.0 late to the party?

I should make it clear I do not own TextMate. Old or new. Still it is hard not to know about it with so many developers touting it over the years. Specifically now with the new version on the horizon.

It was only a few days ago made know through an email that TextMate 2 would have its alpha release by the end of the year. This surprised me quite a bit. I personally thought that TextMate had seen its day. Sublime Text 2, BBEdit, Vim and now Chocolat easily taking its place. With the market making notice.

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Zen Coding: write HTML like CSS

I love Zen Coding, it makes writing HTML super easy. It also help me push the painful plain text files I get from clients all the time into HTML.

Zen Coding was launched on Smashing Magazine a while back by Sergey. However, I wanted to review Zen Coding for Sublime Text 2 since I just got a license for the editor yesterday.

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Text Editors and an IDE

Thank God Dreamweaver is not the only tool for making websites. There are plenty of text editors and IDE’s out there to play with. Remember, you can use more than one editor: right tool for the right job.

Get away from that plain text editor and get a tool that builds websites.

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