(.Text) blogging tips

I use several tools to help me read and author blog entries.

 

RSSBandit is the best feedreader I know. It’s writen in C# (that’s nice) but the main reason I like it is that I can save the status of my subscriptions and posts (e.g. read status) to a server on the web. This way I can read blogs anywhere without having to mark posts AGAIN as read.

 

The web interface of .Text (the software this website is using) is fine for adding short entries but for more serious editing I use the Simple .Text Blog Editor. It is a very basic InfoPath form that allows me to use the power of Microsoft Office (including spellchecking) and provides offline blogging.

 

I created a plugin for my favorite BlogReader: RSSBandit. With this plugin you can right-click a post and then it will launch the Simple .Text Blog Editor. It will create a new post containing a link to the post you just clicked. I also created a plugin for Internet Explorer so you can right-click a hyperlink and start the Simple .Text Blog Editor. Download here.

 

I’ve also been using wbloggar. The tricky part is setting the account properties. You have to extend your path with “services/metablogapi.aspx“.

 

Sometimes I want to include some source code in my blog. Making that code look like it does in Visual Studio is really hard unless CopySourceAsHtml is being used. These are the settings that I use for version 1.2.2: