Linked List: June 1, 2005

Wednesday, 1 June 2005

Michel Fortin on Integrating PHP Markdown With WordPress ★

WordPress’s entire publishing architecture seems geared around the assumption that posts will be authored in raw X/HTML, but so while you can get alternative text filters like Markdown or Textile to work (thanks to the numerous plug-in hooks), you’re pretty much swimming upstream.

Don’t miss the charts — they really show that Michel has worked his ass off to get PHP-Markdown working well in WordPress. This is one area where Movable Type clearly has the advantage — it’s really rather simple to hook up a text filter plug-in like Markdown.

Quartz Composer Samples ★

Excellent Quartz Composer demos from Futurismo Zugakousaku. I wonder why Quartz Composer is only installed as part of the developer tools? This is something any visually creative artist could really get into. (From Daniel Bogan via AIM.)

Mark Pilgrim on Trixie ★

Have I mentioned before how much I miss Dive Into Mark?

Mac Publishing Buys MacOSXHints.com ★

MacOSXHints.com founder Rob Griffiths stays on as a full-time “senior editor” for Macworld. See also: Jason Snell’s announcement.

Snapz Pro 2.0.2 ★

Minor update for Tiger compatibility. I love Snapz Pro.

Hi! I’m Fireball! ★

Shorts on a superhero? Sheesh! And all those exclamation points are killing me!