Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

Coding has been one of the mainstays of computing, right from the reason for computers to exist, to the foundation for all the applications we use on these machines today. Until quite recently, most ...

One thing I see people differ on is coding into an interface, or typing it in a notepad. With the interface isnt the linking and compiling all done there? What are the benefits of typing in a notepad?