So we have already seen how Evan writes and manages this blog.  Let me show you some of the inner workings on my side of this enterprise.  First off, I would like to say that I was really excited when Evan asked to help him write for his blog.  We had semi-jokingly talked about it before, but I was really glad that he had taken the jump and started it.  Follow the jump to see what I use to put together a post.

Qumana

In the beginning, I used a desktop blog editor called Qumana.  It is available for both Mac and Windows.  However, there were some little annoyances about the way Qumana did things.  The way images were formatted, jumps were handled, or tags were done did not exactly mesh with what I wanted it to do.  I found myself using the online Wordpress editor to do most of my writing, so I decided to get rid of Qumana and look for something else.

I still have yet to find a good free desktop blog editor for Macs.  MarsEdit and ecto are pretty good, but they cost money.  I installed Windows Live Writer on my Boot Camp partition and true to what Evan said, it is the pretty much everything I am looking for in a blog editor.  Even though I can and do sometimes use Windows Live Writer through Boot Camp, I am still looking for that elusive free Mac blog editor.

There is not much else to the tools I use for the blog.  I have two AppleScripts that I created in Automator that I use quite frequently: one of them batch converts images to jpegs and the other batch resizes images to VGA.  These are rather helpful when I take screenshots or need to quickly resize an image.

Well, that is all that is really going on behind the veil here at JPT.  Sorry to say there are no monkeys working machines or robots generating posts.

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