Not a tool per se but I miss Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book in its earliest editions. People forget how difficult it was to find well written programmer documentation in the pre-Internet and dialup-era Internet days. His book was a shining example of how good a programming book could be.
Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage).
But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings.
And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I’ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.
Not a tool per se but I miss Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book in its earliest editions. People forget how difficult it was to find well written programmer documentation in the pre-Internet and dialup-era Internet days. His book was a shining example of how good a programming book could be.
ed with every Mac from 1987 to 2004 - programmable stacks with a domain-specific scripting language called HyperTalk that read like English.
I'm a neovim user not using autocomplete, feels like I'm an outlier in this research
Dreamweaver.
No, hear me out.
Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage).
But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings.
And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I’ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.
Dot matrix printers + fanfold paper
These are still heavily used at airports and the sound of the dot matrix printer going at the gate is usually a sign that boarding is starting soon.
And somehow they always sounded like they were under extreme stress even when printing a single page.
SoftICE
SoftICE is one of those names that instantly makes older low-level devs nostalgic.
I am an older, low-level developer!
That honestly sounds like a badge of honor in this thread :)
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