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If you're not going to use an IDE then you certainly want to use a text editor that's better than Notepad at the very least!
Kevin
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I can also not see the harm in using an IDE. If you're trying to insinuate that having the IDE do checks and "autocomplete" function/variable names and even show you what arguments to use where - is going to adle your brain when learning to program: I can only shake my head.
Those things are simply time savers. I would have loved them when I started writing Java code - basically wrote the code on one half of the screen with the html help open on the other half - swapping pages every few seconds. No way in hell I could remember the entire Java API. These days Java's got some fine IDE's, as do most other languages (especially DotNet's C#/VB).
 For that matter, if you feel an IDE is being soft ... then you probably feel no-one should be using any libraries either! No DotNet using clauses - you should re-write everything in each CS file (including all the functionality for strings/arrays/integers/reals/etc). If you're doing C++ you're doing it wrong - because it's an object orientation library on top of C. If you're using C, I hope you're not chickening out and making use of the stdlib! Come now, don't be a wuss! Reinvent every single wheel from history. And just to be clear, you should NEVER use any 3rd generation language, even C is to good for you. Actually, why the hell are you allowed to even use ASM? You should be prodding switches to write directly in binary after you've welded the PC into existance from scratch using only a fire started by rubbing 2 sticks together! 
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After company's plea, users point out that upgrading XP to Windows 8.1 is 'impossible' "Can't get there from here"
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"Microsoft has also said it is possible to upgrade straight from XP to Windows 8.1 with a "clean" install that retains nothing because it involves wiping the hard drive"
I can do that too.
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Microsoft is completely adrift
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'"Wait. Wait. Wait just a minute here," wrote someone identified as "nephilim" in a comment added Thursday to a Microsoft blog. "You are suggesting I upgrade people from XP to Windows 8.x? But that's impossible. There is a major problem with [Microsoft's] suggestion. You (Microsoft) have made Windows 8 and 8.1 incapable of upgrading from Windows XP. I simply can't upgrade anyone, including myself, to Windows 8. It's impossible."'
True, but the vast majority of consumers who use PCs, who may move from XP, will do so by getting a new PC with 8.1 preinstalled. Few actually upgrade on their existing boxes and chances are their existing boxes running XP aren't up to spec. anyway.
Kevin
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IBM's Cloudant purchase will bring the CouchDB NoSQL database into IBM's SoftLayer global cloud In related news: interest in CloudDB decreases
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Bookmarked!
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Nokia X and X+ have just been announced by the Finnish handset maker at their Mobile World Congress 2014 press conference. The devices are the first Nokia handsets to run Android, although it is a forked version of the operating system. Nokia's worst kept secret becomes official
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Nokia XL was also announced in the Nokia X family line.
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WhatsApp to Start Offering Internet Phone Calls[^] [NYTimes]
WhatsApp announced on Monday that it would start offering voice services later this year - diversifying beyond its main messaging service into phone calls. WhatsApp’s voice service is expected to be available first on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems, then expand to others like Windows Phone and Blackberry.
/ravi
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For Hints at Apple’s Plans, Read Its Shopping List[^] [NYTimes]
The company has avoided jaw-dropping takeovers in favor of a series of smaller deals, using the companies to buttress or fill a gap in products that already exist or are in development. ... And while the deals may be small - particularly given Apple’s nearly $160 billion cash hoard - they offer a window into where the secretive company is headed and which products and services it is trying to build or improve.
/ravi
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Gmail users who get frustrated trying to find the "unsubscribe" link that's often buried in small type at the bottom of promotional emails may instead start seeing it before they even open the message. "They say that breaking up is hard to do."
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Ray Kurzweil, the man who promises "Singularity" between man and machine, speaks of it as being a wonderful thing. But is it? Even remotely? Way ahead of you there
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I'll be in trouble I don't like Captain Crunch?
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I would say we're already there. There are way too many people who ARE stupid as machines, without any exposure to a computer.
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When adopting agile teams can use (external) coaches and mentors. But teams can also develop themselves by having team members mentoring and coaching each other. Team members can learn skills and abilities from other team members in multidisciplinary teams, enabling the team to grow as a whole and become self-organized. "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
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The CBSG[^] is apparently useful for article writing too. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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and i am the walrus
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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goo goo g'joob 
TTFN - Kent
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The people I find the most interesting are the "Microsoft killed my Pappy" people, angry with generational anger. My elders hated Microsoft so I hate them. Why? Because, you wronged me. They're (mostly) not the same company they used to be
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"Scott Hanselman is a ........ Microsoft employee." but that doesn't mean anything.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It really doesn't. I've known more than a few 'Softies, and they are really trying to change the way the company does stuff. Granted, they're almost entirely within the DevDiv org (or rather "Server and Tools"). Certainly there are still large chunks of the company that would love to continue to merrily swing a monopoly club around the industry.
TTFN - Kent
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I don't understand your response. This guy is an apologist whose thesis seems to be that angst against ms is inherited and not based an valid current issues.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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