The book is organized into three major sections with appropriate chapters in each.  In the first section, Gray shows how to effectively use TextMate’s project drawer for managing your work, explains TextMate’s Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts, and demonstrates the power of the find and replace features with regular expressions.  The second section shows TextMate’s strength in automating things you would normally type thereby saving you time and preventing typos. The final section explains how to write a language grammar yourself and provides a concrete example of such an implementation.

Despite being somewhat of a manual, the book is very readable with pictures, simple explanations, and some jokes tossed in.  Although the book isn’t a quick reference or a complete guide, it is very easy to find what you are looking for and contains a large amount of information along with examples.  If you are looking for a good reference book on the TextMate editor, definitely look into this one as it should contain everything you need.

I have just completed a first version of a possible CSH Room Maker (http://www.csh.rit.edu/~geoff/roommaker) using HTML5 and it’s canvas to draw and move shapes around on the screen. Currently, you can click and drag the furniture around anywhere in the room. You can also overlay furniture if you plan on putting that piece of furniture under the other. I need to add formation to the layout about where the build in cabinets are, since they are obviously non-movable, allow for rotations of furniture, allow for input of custom dimensioned furniture, and allow for different room types.

Thus far, HTML5 and its canvas have not been too much of a pain to work with. I am new to JavaScript so I am sure that I am doing a lot of things wrong in my code, but I am happy with it for the most part and will probably work on condensing it when need be, but for right now it works. I am having problems getting keydown events to work properly, I cannot get them to register for some reason. Other than that, the tutorial on canvas at Mozilla Development Center (http://developer.mozilla.org) is very good and very helpful to learning.