This looks great: some Movable Type developers have forked off to form Melody, an open-source blogging implementation that focuses on the community. I’m using Movable Type for both my blogs, and while it’s very powerful and comprehensive, I’ve long found the documentation and ecosphere to be somehow incomplete, or broken. Hopefully this will remedy that. And, if nothing else, they have a really pretty logo.
Via Daring Fireball.
And now for a slew of extremely handy, time-saving scripts for Adobe Illustrator, courtesy of James E. Talmage:
As far as I can tell, the only new feature in FastScripts 2.4 is a software update mechanism. But – hey! – gotta be up-to-date, right? Daniel Jalkut, the author, has also killed off FastScripts Lite; the full version is now capable of running in “Lite” mode.
If you run any sort of scripts regularly, it’s a must-have. (Here’s the full feature list.)
A research video from Google that servers as a great reminder that the vast majority of people have no idea what a “browser” is.
Via B3ta.
Anil Dash with a spot-on look into the immediate future of Facebook Names.
Via Scripting News.
For a version 1.5 application, Textmate more than holds its own against any of the heavyweight text editors. Allan Odgaard blew the dust off his blog a couple of days ago to assure his audience that the highly-anticipated version 2 is, in fact, under active development.
Allan’s a talented guy. Textmate would be an impressive achievement from a team of developers, let alone one guy working in a tiny wooden shack on the side of a mountain. Which is how I like to imagine Allan working.
With an introduction video that seems to suggest Flash Catalyst is no less than a fundamental building block of life in our universe, Adobe are once again attempting to bridge the yawning divide between designers and developers. Catalyst is available in Adobe Labs now, and lets you add interactivity and interaction to otherwise static Illustrator and Photoshop documents, as well as aiding developers and designers working in parallel on large scale applications.
