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TextMate, together with Adobe Captivate 2 and ElectricCommander, recently won a Jolt Productivity Award in the Utilities category. The Jolt Winner (as opposed to Productivity Winner) in that category was VMware Lab Manager.
To represent me (as I was in Japan at the time, thanks for the sightseeing tips!) I had Scott Stevenson, who wrote a post about it with a picture of the trophy.
Scott already express my gratitude towards the TextMate community, but let me just assure you that this is sincere — even though I do 1-2 hours of support each day and put in a lot of hours coding, I really feel that TextMate is a community product. A lot of the functionality which I use has been contributed or refined by users, a lot of discussion about features/infrastructure happens in the open on the mailing lists or IRC channel, and a lot of support is handled by users here as well.
If I was alone with TextMate, it would be nowhere as useful as it is now and I would be deprived of the many moments in which I am seeing the best of human nature: people working together across borders not motivated by profit but for one simple cause: to make things better!
This is what motivated me to make TextMate in the first place, and it is still the reason I am sweating over 2.0, because things can still be much much better! :)
On that note, let me just say kudos to Apple for persuading EMI to go DRM-free — I for one will buy much more music now. The 30% price increase sucks though. Already ITMS did often not give a price advantage over Amazon, but I guess the labels wanted higher prices, and Apple used that to press them into stripping the DRM in a rather clever way.
