“BBEdit 8.5 (short version)”

Today Bare Bones announced the release of BBEdit 8.5, my favorite Mac text editor.

I'm quite psyched about this release for two reasons: it has loads of new features (many that I've been hoping for, in fact), and because I played a small part in its production.

See, this is the project I worked on non-stop for two months. My contributions are minor compared to those from within the walls of Bare Bones itself, but it was still two months of my time. And more than that, I really (really, really) enjoyed this project, so much that I feel a sense of ownership and real contribution. Last night I joked with Rich that I've made myself a Bare Bones employee, but it would have been better to say "Bare Bones Fellow". ;-) (No, Macrobyte's not going anywhere, anytime soon.)

Of course, what are bound to be the most generally popular new features (most notably Code Folding) had nothing to do with me. I wish I could take credit for that one. ;-)

Like Michael and many others have already done, I plan to go into a lot more detail about this new release, and I'll even (finally!) be able to talk about what I did. Unfortunately it's going to have to wait until tomorrow. Just couldn't let the whole day go by without saying *something* about it.

Congratulations to everybody at Bare Bones, especially Rich. 8.5 is a fantastic update!

Oh, and yes... Bare Bones president Rich Siegel is who I went with to the MacTechGroup meeting, yesterday.

Jim C. from Bare [space] Bones has reminded me for the second time in three years that there is a space in their company name, and that they "paid good money for that space." Oops. Fixed!