Know Any Great Blogging Tools for Programming Blogs?

Question

I've been blogging for about a year now. After a month I realized that I wasn't a huge fan of wysiwyg editors provided by blogger and typepad. Since then I've been using Windows Live Writer for authoring content and Google Prettify for syntax highlighting.

Are there any great tools that I'm missing out on?
My ideal tools would:

1. Support Blogger/TypePad/WordPress/FTP posting.
2. Have in tool syntax highlighting (as opposed to prettify which happens at runtime).
3. Great usability.
4. Awesome XHTML compliant layouts for figures, graphs, tables, etc...
5. Really take the friction away from blogging.

Have sweet technical blogging tools? Share the wealth! It's ok if they cost money or if they're for OS X, Windows, or a Linux distro (I run boot camp).

EDIT
Let me be more specific, I'm not looking for a good blogging engine, I don't want to get into a blogger vs. typepad vs. etc... discussion. I'm talking about tools that help you construct and edit content that gets fed into some blogging engine.

Answer 1

Check out BitButter's Post for Displaying TextMate code in your wordpress blog.

Answer 2

Windows Live Writer has worked really well for me.

If you are talking about code syntax highlighting, there are plugins for Writer that let you syntax highlight code in the tool, a good one is Insert Code.

Answer 3

Check out the Textmate Wordpress Blogging Bundle.

Answer 4

Also, check out the SO thread What is best blogging host for programmers/code formatting?

Answer 5

I've had tons of problems posting code in the past, so I wrote my own app called BlogTrog CodeWindow to handle it. It's powered by Actipro CodeHighlighter and some javascript.

http://www.blogtrog.com/

You just paste your code and embed the results. It's free, no fuss. It wraps the code in an iframe; if the iframe gets stripped out (which feed readers seem to do) it falls back to just plain highlighted text without the fancy toolbar.