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Congratulations to my fellow Dane and good friend Allan Odgaard. TextMate snapped up the Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool. What a fantastic honor for him.

I can't fathom that it's already two years ago that I spent a couple of months over the summer working with Allan to get TextMate released. While it was a fun time helping Allan, I must admit that I was acting on entirely selfish reasons. I was dreading the choices for a programming editor on the Mac and saw TextMate as the chance to escape the under-whelming offerings.

TextMate is today without a doubt the most important OS X application on my machine. Most everything else has worthy alternatives, but TextMate is in a class of its own. It's a big part of the reason that Ruby on Rails programmers are picking up Macs in droves. Props to Apple for recognizing its importance.