Christian Geekery

The substance of things hoped for…

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But it seems to have one major problem when using Expandrive to access remote project files. Every time I go to my browser to check or test a change, it takes many seconds before it will respond again when I return to editing. This behavior drove me to pull my hair. not an easy task considering how little there is.

The sad part is that it is the only real problem I have with this otherwise excellent editor. There are a lot of items on my wish list, but no real problems other then this. For local files or editing files through Transmit, TextMate works great! But alas, I want to be able to define a set of files as a project, and those files need to be search-able and brows-able remotely, without making me wait too long.

So for now, I am back to bbEdit which does not seem to suffer from this slowness issue, but has quirks of its own. All I want is the perfect text editor. PHP, SQL, and JavaScript tools from eclipse, great search, and diff tools from bbEdit, and clean Simple autoComplete from TextMate, excellent project tools, and good language based syntax coloring that all three of these have. Hmm, while I am at it how about good tools for every source control system form darcs to subversion. Oh! and….

I was happy to see Apple’s announcement of the public beta of Safari 4 the other day. I of course went out and downloaded it, and really liked some of the wiz-bang changes that they made to Safari. That is until I found that Gmail no longer works. Then I plugged in my iPhone and found that it could no longer sync to iTunes. Heck even MobileMe was giving me grief.

The new “Top Sites” feature has a very nice graphical look, and the cover flow style of browsing history is cool. I know that many may not like the obvious copy of Chromes top tabs, but I like it. Behind the scenes, a faster Java Script engine brings speed improvements. The updated WebKit rendering engine now supports HTML 5, better CSS 3 support for reflections, gradients, and more. It even passes the Acid3 rendering test.

All these improvements, and I had to revert back to my older safari because it is really broken. What a sad state of affairs. No Chrome for Mac yet, and Safari 4 beta is unusable for me at this time.

I have come to the conclusion that it is not for me. sure it was nice to have a few readers that even replied to to my posts, but there were too many other distractions that I am better off staying away from there. So now I need to decide how to proceed. Do I go back to a mixed blog or just start another WordPress Blog. I think that I will be shutting down my opera site soon.