In this new entry to his blog Raphael Stolt shows how to combine TextMate's snippets (handy bits that can be inserted/executed over and over) and Phing to run custom tasks.

As a reader of this blog you might have noticed that from time to time I like to utilize Phing's ability to write custom tasks. [...] This is actually a bad habit/practice I'm aware of and to improve my future endeavours in custom Phing task development, I bended TextMate's snippet feature to my needs.

He includes the snippet code example so you can copy and paste it over if you'd like to work it into your routine. This can be dropped directly into the Bundles editor and have a tab trigger applied to make using it even easier.