I just spent the last two hours writing an article for all of you about Nullable<T> and the XmlSerializer, but my blog engine prompted me with a login screen when I hit post and the post was subsequently lost. I may appear calm and civilized with my text here, but I’ve been swearing non-stop since it happened.
So here’s a note to myself: Print this out.
Dear Jason,
Never, EVER use the editor in .Text to write a long post. You will lose it and the time you spent on it. Your 2 readers will lose out as well. They await with bated breath for every post. We both know you don’t post enough to satisfy them, so you must – must – not waste the time you spend on posts and then lose them. Use Word. Save the document. Then paste it in, hit Post.
Thank you,
Jason
I use w.Bloggar and save posts as a .post file while writing it. Then when I’m done, I can simply post it to my Subtext blog. This reminds me, I think I’ll implement auto-draft for Subtext.
Forget that bloatware. w.Bloggar might work too, but I use a program called Fass by Pawsoft (http://www.pawsoft.com/). Very light-weight, and not at all intended for blog posting (originally made for posting for forums.
It has a handy ability to add custom snippets. Which is useful for repetitive tasks like inserting images into posts.
Fass’s biggest problem (imo) is the highlighting. Not standard. Drives me nuts sometimes. Its other features make me continue using it.