http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Congratulations on MVP!!!! http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment15http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment15Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:31:22 GMTI made wordpress understand markdown and I'm using the textmate blogging plugin to write my posts with markdown. That works pretty good for me. It isn't WYSIWYG but it does the job. http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment14http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment14Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:36:44 GMTCurrently I'm using MacJournal for writing & editing blog entries. It is WYSWIG but not without fault, either ... http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment13http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment13Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:17:34 GMTorcmid, the preview rendering relies on the Internet Explorer control, thus it wouldn't be able to run on the Mac unfortunately. http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment12http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment12Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:46:30 GMTI left Blogjet behind when Windows Live Writer started to mature. It does everything that I want (and I still flip to the HTML view to do things it doesn't provide directly, but handling images isn't one of those). Now, I haven't checked, but it seems to me that WLW must be a .NET application and I wonder if it might work under mono on the Mac. Assuming there's a decent mono implmentation there. Just wondering. http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment11http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment11Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:04:33 GMTI guess everyone else missed the one-liner so I get to be the first here to say congratulations! And if this is your first one, what the heck were they waiting for? http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment10http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment10Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:04:40 GMT> The Mac sucks. There is no good blog client for the Mac. I guess you never took a logic course. Because there is no good blogging client for the Mac. Doesn't mean that the Mac sucks. That like saying there are no good seat covers for a Porsche so the Porsche sucks. Have you tried the blogging plug-in for Textmate? BOb http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment9http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment9Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:30:19 GMTFor that I use Windows, but fairly often I am working on the Air and I don't have Windows there. Moreover, needing to go to windows to post is stupid, and waiting for it to load take all the fun of quick posts http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment8http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment8Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:42:30 GMTI've used Qumana on both Windows and Mac. I prefer WLW but Qumana is not bad. [http://www.qumana.com](http://www.qumana.com)http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment7http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment7Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:40:47 GMTHow do you run VS then? or am I missing something... http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment6http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment6Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:52:45 GMTI'll be interesting to see what others come up with. I just tend to use the online editor for Wordpress, because ecto is not worth it, and last time I tried MarsEdit, I had the same problem as you (I want to write, not edit HTML!). But now I can't try it, because the "trial" has run out. I just wish the coding robots ported BlogJet to the mac, becuase that was by far the best windows blog editor, when I was using windows anyway. Not sure about how they rate now, but WLW was pretty much a menu-and-icon copy of BJ back in the day. [http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/](http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/) Maybe using something like TextMate, and a Markdown to HTML converter might work for you? Not at all ideal tho. http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment5http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment5Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:49:07 GMTWel you hate to write HTML codes? That is what you are telling? http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment4http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment4Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:17:58 GMTa couple thoughts... vmware fusion, search for OSS options, or build one. I pulled up the scribus website to see, but I didn't see a mention of use as a blog editor. I also looked for NVU editor (site seems to be parked) and kompozer but didn't see any mention of use as a blog editor. I might run into a need for this to before the end of the year. http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment3http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment3Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:41:39 GMTAyende, You are so right. WLW is FANTASTIC, and it's hard to find anything even close to as good. The real question--I think--is whether there's really a paying market for a blog editor of that quality....or is it just something that's too expensive to develop without microsoft-type money behind you. Josh http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment2http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment2Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:19:45 GMTAyende, Why not go back to writing blog posts on the PC? Are you practicing some type of masochism? I wouldn't give up WLW for anything, including a Mac. --rj P.S. I have a few comments about Windows/SQL Server on EC2 here: [oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../...to-oracle-and.html](http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazon-adds-sql-server-to-oracle-and.html)http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment1http://ayende.com/3625/rambling-2nd-october#comment1Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:45:47 GMT