NotePad2 Florian Balmer has written an update to my favourite plain text editor NotePad, which I still use for coding my website projects. A few years ago, I found myself writing my first PHP projects using metapad. When I was looking around for text editors with syntax highlighting, I have come across the Scintilla source code editing component. I was very much impressed by this project, so ... Read full entry

Next in text Would you believe I use my email program rather than WordPerfect or Word, to draft my articles and blog posts? Why? Not only does Thunderbird spell check my work, it is simply far easier to use. Latter day WP programs are so overladen with features I'll never use in a million years, not to mention hog so much disk space, that they have ... Read full entry