If you’ve ever used Textpattern for your CMS of choice, then likely you have found or used at least one of the plugins available from designer/developer Rob Sable of Wilshire One

Rob (under the name of Wilshire) has supplied the community with an abundance of plugins since August 2004. His plugins have included public side archive and tagging tools, as well as numerous admin side plugins like a scaled down database management tool that allows you to copy your TXP install

If you are a mac user and haven’t already stumbled across TextMate, then you’re truly missing something great. It is more than just a missing code editor, it is God’s code editor.

As a Textpattern user then, it’s been a great tool, but a couple of months ago, it really became much better for use with Textpattern with the introduction of Marios’ Buttner’s (consking.com):http://www.consking.com Textpattern Bundle. I haven’t even begun to poke the surface with this bundle, but on the very surface it allows you to have quick key snippets to quickly code up your site’s html and Textpattern tags. Just a bit further below you’ll find if you enable the associated and appropriate plugins, you can have a Textpattern editor that interacts directly with the database! No more cut and paste!

If you are indeed a fellow mac user, you owe it to yourself to check this out.

Which are the TOP 10 Plugins 2005?
Go over to the TXP Forum, list your plugins and vote for your Top 10.

A couple of months ago, Robby Macdonell did some flash production on a local restaurants website (www.ashmontgrill.com) originally designed by Boston design company Hamilton Hughes Design. As the client liked to update his site with new informations he was forced to apply a CMS.

Rob: “So I started looking around at a few different CMSs that I

Sencer did write a quite interesting tutorial for PHP coders on sparklines and data:URIs over on his site sencer.de. The article is in english. If you are a PHP coder, don´t miss that.