Farewell, Trusty Blogger
If you haven’t seen Textile, check it out. It’s the core technology benefit behind moving over to Textpattern as a blogging utility. It let’s you do intuitive syntax like surrounding asterisks for bolded text, then it converts that syntax to valid XHTML. Of course, it also looks really nice and is very configurable.
Textpattern is the first addition to my brand-spanking-new paid hosting account from TextDrive.com. It’s a full-fledged PHP and Ruby on Rails host, with MySQL databases and all that other fun. open-source server side scripting goodies. It also has IMAP e-mail, which I’m very excited about.
It’s about time.