If there’s one thing that unites ProfHacker writers, it’s probably an appreciation for plain text files and well-designed text editors, preferably with Markdown support. Plain text goes anywhere, is ...

OK, this is simple. As I write to a textfile and append a carrage return chr(13) to the end of my lines, and then open the text file in notepad, it doesn't read the chr(13) as an end of line and begin ...

When it comes to keeping track of all your text and to-do lists, there's no shortage of apps to choose from, but sometimes the ease and simplicity of working with plain text files can actually be more ...

Consistent quality writing can be hard to achieve, but a text editor like Vale gives you everything you need to get that much closer.

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

If you have a Web or other computer-based small business, you might find that you need to do some Java programming. Java is a cross-platform programming language from Oracle that anyone can use. One ...