Fun with BBEdit
One of the things I really like is getting surprised by really well written software. It doesn't happen everyday, so it's really nice to be really shocked by a chunk of code.
Thankfully, today is one of those days.
I was working with a few of my web sites and one of them happened to be on an NT box. I have the NT box for several reasons, but they all seem to be less important the more I try to do something on that box and find out that because it's NT, I can't. No good telnet server... no really solid ftp server... no OpenSSH server for security... it's so unlike all my other systems (all Unix of one sort or another), it's difficult to get some things done.
So I was trying to figure a way to get the web site fixed and I thought about BBEdit's "Open from FTP Server..." functionality. It's nothing short of amazing. I was able to look at the directory structure and load in the file as clean as you please. Then edit it a bit, save it and reload the page. Everything was working perfectly. I was stunned that it was as easy as it was.
In the end, it didn't matter that my NT FTP server wasn't really 'good', it was good enough for BBEdit. I got everything I wanted done.