![]() I’ve also simplified my storage of images, as part of the change of theme I recently applied to the blog: I now store them on an Amazon S3 Cloudfront server, which means they’re served to my readers, who are evenly split between the US and Europe, more quickly than if everything were stored on my MediaTemple server. The W3 Total Cache plugin and Amazon Cloudfront ![]() The barriers to switching your desktop software are inexistent, so switching is hardly a major issue: you just pull your posts from your blog in whatever you switch to, and you’re up and running in seconds but currently, MarsEdit definitely has my vote at present. I’ve switched back to MarsEdit from ecto for drafting my posts, though: ecto was acquired by a company called Illuminex in 2008, and hasn’t been updated since, effectively becoming abandonware §, which makes it pretty unusable, in contrast to MarsEdit, which is regularly updated and fixed: it still doesn’t support custom fields, or WordPress’s new thumbnail feature out of the box, but using its powerful macros you can actually achieve pretty well anything you want in that respect. I’ll concentrate, in this post, on saying a bit about how I use three tools (MarsEdit, Cloudfront and Markdown) to make my blogging easier. If you are, then you might want to read on. Also, using WordPress’s built-in WYSIWYG editor still doesn’t result in very clean code: so I would recommend disabling it §, unless you aren’t bothered with what your underlying HTML looks like. I haven’t personally gone that way, however: I still find using desktop clients infinitely more comfortable and it gives me greater flexibility. Uploading of images, via the media library, in particular, has been made radically better. WordPress itself has improved considerably in the past three years, to the point that writing blog posts in the wp-admin web interface is now a real option for those who want to keep their blogging simple and aren’t interested either in refinements or in using code. Available tools have changed slightly since then, and I’ve also changed the way I use them. And it looks very comprehensive.I first wrote about the way I write my WordPress blog posts in 2007, and updated the method I described for using WriteRoom, TextMate and and desktop blogging software in 2009. My guess there will be a big update of their server farm that handles the analytic part.īut I’m really looking forward to get the new statistics to compare to my current systems. Theres already a WordPress plugin to make it easy to use. I would think that hey have a lot more success of people signing up. So I signed up, put the javascript code and got an confirmation on the setup page that all was ok, and my statistics should show up within 12 hours. I have lot of principles I live by, and one of them is to break the other principles I live by. Makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.īut not enough to stop me from signing up. And as long as the company is “not evil” it’s apparently ok. We write our thoughts and events, and then hands the information over to a company for them to go trough and index and generate patterns. We are in-fact giving them that for free. And now with Google Analytics we are going to give them every detail on how we surf? So George Orwell was wrong, you don’t need an totalitarian society to have full control of peoples life’s. They have managed to get people to sign up their mail at GMail, letting Google index all their emails. Googles new free service both delight and scare the shit out of me. ![]()
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