color scheme themes and font choices are all personal, but i went with a bitmap font (ProFont 9pt) and the BBEdit theme (because I prefer dark text on a light background)

ProFont can be found here:
http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

note that 9pt bitmap is not as small as it sounds:
http://img.skitch.com/20080331-fc3chxdp712urjd7ft72u8t5pd.jpg


Themes:
http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemes
http://www.tmthemes.com/

some useful links for TextMate

http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/tutorials/setup/
http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/tutorials/basics/
http://blog.macromates.com/2005/key-bindings-for-switchers/

http://v1.garrettdimon.com/search/?q=Trick+Your+TextMate

http://www.grayskies.net/TMcheatsheet.pdf
http://www.g-design.net/textmate.pdf
http://designbyelle.com.au/pdf/textmate_shortcuts.pdf
http://pragmaticstudio.com/rails/RailsTextMateCheats.pdf

http://code.google.com/p/textmate-missingdrawer/

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