[thelist] real men code by hand...

[aardvark]

real men don't need color-coding...  real women don't need those men, either...

anyway, i'm one of those odd users won't take the time to configure a text
editor to not auto-indent or auto-complete or not stick tabs and buttons in my
face or not pretend it knows HTML better than i...

notepad is everywhere -- on my home machine, on the laptop i found at the
coffee shop, on my client's servers, on my parents' machine...  learn to
master notepad, and every computer is a pit-stop coding workstation for those
long days in the big blue room when you just can't get that block of code out
of your head... stop for a coffee and a code dump, and move on to the next
court-mandated community service gig... that's the freedom notepad allows....

oh, and in case i haven't mentioned this enough in the past year, i hate
WYSIWYGs... won't let any of my employees use 'em, and make clients sign
off that i'm clear if they should open the work i hand over in a WYSIWYG...

and so i'll pimp that article now...

To Hell With Bad Editors
http://evolt.org/Bad_Editors

yep, that's me...

...who is currently trying to get the borrowed copy of Life of Brian out of the
DVD case, and finding it's harder to accomplish than popping a strapless bra
with sweaty hands on prom night...