Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there’s no denying that regular expressions are an important tool for parsing text.
I’ve created a list of 21+ FREE tools and resources that may make writing regular expressions a bit easier.
So a few weeks ago, I decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon, and signup for a WordPress account. I must admit, I was impressed by how simple it was to install on a server (literally 5 minutes, like they said), configure, upload and select a theme and install plug-ins.
There was one thing that bothered me and I couldn’t ignore no matter how hard I tried … their editor.
For those of you who have never used WordPress, or have never looked under the covers of your posts, WordPress likes to auto format your code. It will strip out some of your tags, wrap everything in <p></p> and rearrange your JavaScript code. And the only way to disable this "feature", is to disable the WYSIWYG editor (I later did find some other editors that can be used in WordPress) which leaves you with just the HTML view.
Normally, I would have no problem with this, as you will see in my reviews below, that I want the ability to go in and manually edit the source. Using their HTML view however, is worse than using pico as a HTML editor.
I searched far and wide across the Internets for FREE alternative editors, and came up with 11 Editors, 7 of which I have tested and wrote about.
So without wasting any more of your time, here is my list of 10+ FREE Blogging Editors.
For those of you in or around, you might be interested in knowing that on Oct 2 2007, the North of Toronto .Net User Group will be holding their very first meeting, by hosting a ‘Developer Night in Canada’. The topic for the evening is ‘Bringing the Power of the .NET Framework to Your Existing Application‘.
Registration for this event is required, and can be done at http://msevents.microsoft.com….
Update:
Check out the sequel to this post, “15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-Ins - Part 2“
After some extensive researching (Googling), I’ve compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.
If there’s an add-in that I’ve missed and you think that it should be added to this list, just post a comment with the name, URL, and a brief description. But before doing so, make sure that it meets the following strict requirements: a) It must run within Visual Studio 2005. b) It must be free.
So without further ado, here’s my list of 15+ Free Visual Studio 2005 Add-Ins …
Well apparently, because today is the 1111 1111th day of the year, it’s unofficially "Programmer’s Day". This day only comes around once a year, so here’s your excuse to turn off your monitors and leave your parent’s basement to go out into the real world for a bit and celebrate.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to the latest W3Counter Global Stats, Linux has finally surpassed Windows in PC market share.
