E Text Editor - Recommended!

I have been using a text editor called E on windows for some time now. I’m one of those programming dinosaurs that dislike IDE’s with a passion. Programming is about code. End of story. I also do my html and css by hand with a text editor. BTW I am stuck on windows at my work.

E  brings to windows the functionality of  TextMate on OSX.  Very good stuff! Highly recommended. Not free, but inexpensive at $35.

What prompted me to write about E was an email I got from E’s developer. I reported a minor bug a few days back, and today I got an email thanking me for the report and providing a link to new version of the program with the bug fixed. Is that a responsive company or what?

Some new programming books …

I’m reading: “Ajax on Rails” by Scott Raymond (O’Reilly) and “Prototype and script.aculo.us” by Christophe Porteneuve (Pragmatic Programmers).  These are very closely related  - Prototype and script.aculo.us are the ajax and html dom manipulation libraries that Ruby on Rails uses.

So far I have spent more time with Ajax on Rails. It’s very well written and I have learned much.  Prototype and script.aculo.us is a beta book - it’s a work in progress. I’ve bought beta books from Pragmatic Programmers before, they notify you when there is an update and you just download a new pdf file.