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Trying out a new editor

September 21, 2014 By Greg Falken Leave a Comment

Brackets EditorI like the look of the Brackets Editor from Adobe. It’s free and open source with a healthy number of people writing extensions for it. I’ve been using Notepad++ for several years now and while it’s a perfectly capable editor, it’s getting a bit long in the tooth. We’ll see if I can get comfortable with something new. I imagine that this is what a professional carpenter feels like with a new circular saw.

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The Funniest Post That Should Scare You To Death

May 4, 2014 By Greg Falken 3 Comments

Think that there is someone who can actually fix your computer or website? Think again. This article by Peter Welch explains all.

Code horror

The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.

Read the whole thing: http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/programming-sucks/

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