I used Capistrano before to automate my deployments, but something about using a Ruby application to deploy Django projects feels awfully wrong. So I was happy to see Fabric emerge as an alternative, and I finally put it to good use while deploying this blog.
There seems to be a huge number of solutions for enabling syntax highlighting in Django applications. This was an issue I had to tackle before I deployed my blog, so I did a little bit of research, and ended up combining a few different methods to build a good solution.
Getting back to blogging has been on my mind for the past year. I designed this current version almost six months ago, but I lost my momentum at some point, and didn’t get it back until yesterday night, when I saw my good friend Sam Bull’s simple but elegant new blog.
I had heard of TextMate, “the missing editor” before, but for some reason I had never had the chance to try it. After reading some references to this new text editor for Mac OS X at Shaun Inman’s site, I decided to give it a try.
I feel like I have been living on a deserted island for the last four years. Since I moved to Toronto four years ago, I have been spending most of my time developing web applications and learning as fast as I could. But it was only after I found myself right in the middle of the blogosphere a couple of weeks ago that I realized how much I have been missing.
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