I’ve just started getting into your podcasts after seeing number 10 on reddit. This one was really interesting! I would love to start my own company some day, but I’m lacking a killer idea at the momement – where did you say you post your ideas for free Justin? I would love to have a look.

I don’t mean to critisise but this podcast sounded like there was an on-going beeping noise in the background which was a little annoying.

Keep up the good work!

I’m picking on you for using HAPEdit. It looks quite useful, so more power to you.

I was just pointing that Delphi is in more common use that one might think. From lesser know tools that haven’t been updated recently (HAPEdit) to higher profile apps still in development (Skype client for Windows). If you take a look at almost any list of “must have” tools and utilities, at least a handful will have been written using Delphi, at least on Windows.

I’ve been using HAPEdit for at least the past five years. It was around 2004 when I first started getting back into web programming and I was searching for a simple text editor that could do syntax coloring for HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS and SQL and somehow I stumbled across HAPEdit. While it’s not the world’s greatest editor by any a stretch, it’s proved good enough that I haven’t bothered to try anything else. Maybe one of these days I’ll upgrade to a slicker editor, but then again I guess I’m a little stuck in my ways. 😉

http://hapedit.free.fr/

– the “shwooshing keys” in my demo are easily achieved with Screenflow
– the demo is in real-time, not sped up

I loved the discussion about Source Control. I’m on Jason’s side as well, editing directly via FTP and I never worried about not having a rollback button.

Very often I’m working on several tickets/issues at once plus my PM forces me to switch priorities multiple times a day (minor things our clients needs ASAP, etc). I never work on something for several days without any interruption. Under such conditions SVN is a true pain since there’s not enough time to properly add descriptions and do proper check-ins. I’m *much faster* by utilizing md5deep to get a list of changed files and merge manually.

However I’d be very interested in automating SVN-submits and apply “tags” while coding. For example press a hotkey to inform the SVN client in the background to categorize all the following edits as “issue #67” until I switch to another issue/tag or stop coding. This way I could quickly merge all changes of “issue 67” to the live server.