I’ve started a new micro-blog for sharing tips and links about the Mac text editor, TextMate. I use it as my primary text editor but I’m far from an expert, which is not ideal. As per the Pragmatic Programmer, I feel I should be able to use it fully, employing its advanced features.

So, as I learn more about TextMate, I’ll be sharing tips and as I come across interesting articles, I’ll be sharing links.

TextMate Tips – I’ve kicked it off with a link and a short tip, I’ll be aiming to add a couple of links/tips per week. If you want to contribute to the blog, leave a comment here and I’ll hook you up with access.

Related posts:

1. Textmate and Git
2. In the news – 22/07/07
3. Blog critque – worldofangel.com

Today I launched Twitdevs. It is an extremely beta release, very much taking the philosophy of “if you’re not embarrassed by your first release you’ve waited too long”.

It’s a small Sinatra based app, which I coded up in a few hours. It is for people in search of freelancers for small projects and gigs and allows you to post a message, via the website, through the associated twitter account – @twitdevs describing what you are looking for and a budget and then if any freelancers following @twitdevs are interested in working with you; they’ll contact you directly over twitter to discus further.

The Road-Map

So there are obviously quite a few improvements I’d like to make as it such an early release:

• Complete redesign – I am not a designer, and although I can see good design, I cannot recreate it. The whole thing needs a redesign
• Twitter OAuth integration – I’d like you to have to login via your twitter account before being able to post messages, to block possible spam and to avoid people having to enter their twitter username
• List latest gigs (or just the latest tweets) through the website

Once that is done, I’d probably be happy pushing it a bit and seeing if I can get any traction with it – at the moment there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem – i.e. no freelancers, no gigs, no freelancers etc. etc.

I think it serves a useful purpose but I’ll have to see what people think; if not it’s only a few hours of my life wasted.

Related posts:

1. Who needs Twitter when you’ve got Facebook status updates?
2. Tweetfactor – An experiment using Ruby, Sinatra, Twitter and Redis