From Journeyman to Master

I purchased a license of ecto a while ago. It’s a very nice blogging tool. Maybe even one of the best. But I haven’t been able to use it since I moved to WordPress. It just hangs when trying to retrieve the categories for the posts. After a couple of months, I actually found a fix for it yesterday. I though I can start using ecto again but my happiness didn’t last too long. Ecto doesn’t let me pick any formatting. It totally kills me because I use Markdown and need formatting to preview my posts. This problem seems to be caused by WordPress not sending any formatting options to blog clients. I guess I’m out of luck with ecto here. Luckily I still have the one editor that rules them all – TextMate (Sorry, Emacs). It can post, retrieve and preview MarkDown or Textile. I do have to manually create the header but that just further proves my geek status. This is the first post I wrote with TextMate. We’ll see how it goes.