Thursday, February 02, 2006
Yours, Mine and Ours
Yours, Mine and Ours: "For the last couple of years, I have been managing my weblog with a desktop content management tool called CityDesk, made by Fog Creek Software. This fine product has suited me very well. Most blogs serve their content with a scripting language, dynamically generating pages from a database, with all article editing taking place in a web browser. That approach doesn't work so well for me. First of all, I prefer to serve my content as static HTML. More importantly, I tend to write full-length articles, so I prefer to write my content in something stronger than an HTML textarea. So for me, CityDesk is a good piece of software. It has templates and a basic scripting language and a simple built-in word processor and tools to manage my links. However, I stopped using CityDesk a couple of months ago (Sorry Joel!). Sometime later in this article I intend to make some sort of a point, but for now I want to tell the story of the tool I now use to manage my weblog. ESBMA Like I said, CityDesk is great, but a few things about it kept bugging me: CityDesk's built-in text editing facilities aren't quite strong enough for me. I want to write my articles in a full-featured word processor. CityDesk stores all content in a Jet database. I work at SourceGear, a vendor of versi"