BlogMate is a nice and simple plug-in for TextMate editor that allows creating and editing blog posts for some limited types of blogs from a floating palette within TextMate.

BlogMate is currently at version 0.2, and is beta-quality software. I hacked it together over a single dull weekend in Sunnyvale whilst sipping cheap wine which was purchased in a box. Your blog is precious to you. You MUST backup your blog's database before trying BlogMate.

BlogMate currently supports the MetaWeblog API for remote communication with your blogging software.

Several blogging software packages claim support for the MetaWeblog API, but I don't know which ones other than WordPress. WordPress is also the only software with which BlogMate has been tested.

If you don't know whether your blogging software supports the MetaWeblog API, check your software's documentation. Don't ask me. I truly don't know, and will only laugh at you snarkily while sipping my boxed wine.

BlogMate is meant to be a simple way to create and edit posts on your blog. It is not a full-blown blog management software application, and probably never will be. You currently cannot delete posts or edit timestamps, etc. from BlogMate.

If you are looking for that type of tool, I highly recommend Red Sweater Software's excellent MarsEdit application. MarsEdit is mature, polished, full-featured, and well-supported. Four things that BlogMate is not.

And, as I recently learnt, MarsEdit even has a cool Edit in External Editor feature which allows integration with TextMate. So you should go check it out, buy it, and forget you ever heard about BlogMate.

What's New in This Release:
· Fix for very serious issue where BlogMate plugin was breaking the mate cli.
· Table sorting!