TextMate-

Feb 28 2007

New book, TextMate– Power Editing for the Mac, unleashes robot ninjas

406398015 e6ce3991b9 m New book, TextMate Power Editing for the Mac, unleashes robot ninjasIn case you hadn’t heard the buzz, TextMate is a full-featured OS X editor that can make programmers incredibly productive.

The secret is that it’s not really a text editor.

TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized team of robot ninjas ready to do your bidding. Let’s face it, who doesn’t want their very own team of robot ninjas?
In his latest book, “TextMate Power Editing for the Mac” New book, TextMate Power Editing for the Mac, unleashes robot ninjas, author James Edward Gray II shows you how to use TextMate to do your normal work, but signal the ever-watchful ninjas as you go. At your command, they will launch into action, slicing through text, inserting boilerplate, structuring source code, and much more.

They can transport you to the exact line of the file you need to be on; they’ll watch what you type and anticipate what you need next.

Learn your spells, gain access to your team of robot ninjas, and you too will be able to edit text so effortlessly that everyone watching over your shoulder will be forced to ask, “Wait, how did you do that?”
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Dec 15 2006

MacHeist pledges $100,000 to charity, distributes TextMate licenses

323498791 68d6411d54 m MacHeist pledges $100,000 to charity, distributes TextMate licensesThe word from MacHeist today is that they will donate a minimum of $100,000 to charity from sales of a software bundle featuring award-winning Mac OS X applications. Touting this week as “The Week of the Independent Mac Developer,” MacHeist began selling a software bundle of some of the hottest apps for OS X on Monday in the hopes of increasing the profile of the Mac shareware development community as well as raising $100,000 for charity before the holiday season.

The bundle retails for USD$49 and includes such best-of-class applications as media-cataloguer Delicious Library and RSS aggregator NewsFire. MacHeist is donating 25% of each sale to participating charities, which include The United Way International, Direct Relief International, AIDS Research Alliance, PreventCancer.org, The Nature Conservancy, The World Wildlife Fund, The Hunger Project, and Save the Children.

In just four days, MacHeist has raised nearly $90,000 for the various causes.

Originally, MacHeist announced that if $100,000 were raised before the end of the week, the award-winning text editor TextMate would be distributed to all customers. Today, however, MacHeist conceded that $100,000 may not be reachable in time. Therefore, MacHeist has decided to release licenses of TextMate to all customers. If customers are unable to drive donations past the $100,000 mark, MacHeist has pledged to make up the difference.

The sale ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 17. Tick tock, tick tock.

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