I've been using my old pal Notepad2 as a notepad replacement for quick and dirty code and file editing. Ok not as quick and dirty as using VI, but hey I currently live full time in a Windows world. I was surfing around a few days ago and found another light weight notepad replacement that might just win me over: Notepad++. This one is based on the same editing enging, Scintilla as Notepad2. It also has nearly the same feature set, color syntax highlighting (popular prog languages as well has xml, html blah blah blah), regex search, bookmarks, zoom and is about the same size. Why then would I switch you ask? Well Notepad++ seems to be a more active project and it does Tabs! I like tabs. It will also split screen so I can work on two files at once, or two parts of the same file. I do that often in my full blown editors. I'm going to give it a week or so to see how I like it before making the switch.
I just rediscovered TechBooksForFree. They have a pretty good selection of free online technical books including Eugene Blanchard's Introduction to Data Communications. As with many free resources, mileage may vary.
I'm always amazed by just how much web related information discover and then delete from memory.
Yeah I know there are a zillion notepad replacements, but I've really found this one handly lately: Notepad2. It is lightweight, does color syntax highlighting for many formats including xml, has regular expressions, bookmarks and a bunch of other cool stuff. And yes Paul, it remembers its window position and size between runs.
Java, C# and C++ are cool and all, but some still make their living writing code in C. For those that do, check out this IBM article on 'C' best practices.
C Best Practices
Back in the day, I bought a copy of UltraEdit, version 8 (it's gone to 11 now, apparently).
I wanted something that did hex editing, and didn't realize that Visual Studio had it baked in.
I remember ultraedit.
I also forgot to mention that Notepad++ does find-in files and has plug in support.
I just use the built in editor in visual studio... is there any reason to switch to one of these?
Well I personally find VS a bit heavy to edit the occasional .bat or .xml file, but hey to each his own.
Dude... you don't have VS up and running 24/7? Wow. Wow. (Brian from Family Guy)
Yeah I know. Back in the day I lived inside that thing. Now I only boot it up once a week or so.
Thanks (not) to John for using the first animated icon here.
Hurry up and post it off the screen.
The icon... it stopped blinking!
Yeah you bunch of whiners. Next I'm going to do a post with a mouse over wave file... "da da ding ding ding."
OMG, that crazy frog thing was so obnoxious. They actually had it as a mouseover ad on MSN messenger for a while. One errant mouse movement an "ring ding ding ding..." That crazy frog ringtune sold more copies than the big Coldplay single on their new album!
I can't imagine anyone who would want their phone going off with that ring tone, not unless they are looking to get punched in the face.