That's a negatory, Test Services.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

So I work for a major U.S. university. And I love my job, but there are of course days you just want to be violent with people. We (the tech dept. for this building) get an email the last week of May asking if we could have the new computer science assessment test up and ready by June 1.

... Not exactly.

Firstly, you emailed us the test less than one week before you want it implemented. Secondly, the program we use for online placement testing (Questionmark Perception) isn't exactly user friendly. I have to create the test itself, then create each question for the test, uploading each individual graphic, naming it according to specs, and making them jive via html (where there is no preview function - you have to actually take the test to see the results of your efforts). Thirdly, three or four orientation groups have already taken the old CS assessment test. To use a different test for the rest of the incoming freshmen isn't exactly fair. Fourthly, the new test has 50 questions while the old one had 70, making the users' scores irrelevent in SQL Server. Yes, we can devise a fix pretty easily. But the point is I can't just drop in this new test in 5 minutes.

Phew.

Anyway, that said, what's a good, free text editor that supports color tags? I know this has been discussed on multiple posts. I opened up Semagic to look through the community history, but there's no way of searching comments. Currently I use EditPad Lite, which I love, but you have to upgrade to the Plus version to use color tags. I'm doing too much XHTML/CSS/ASP to get by without the color anymore, especially now that I'm looking at other people's code and working with it. Thanks for the advice.

Comments

[wyrdlinks.livejournal.com]

TextPad has good reviews.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm using TextPad right now. I should have mentioned in the post that TextPad is pretty good, but I get a box asking me to pay for it every once in a while. I know some other ones have been mentioned here in the past, but I don't remember what they were. Thank you though. That's one vote for TextPad.

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

I believe TextPad is just Nagware, but is fully functional after d/l

[jethro.livejournal.com]

Give UltraEdit a try

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

jEdit is nice

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

I've heard of 'Developer's Notepad', but never used it. A Google search brings up info though.

[tecie.livejournal.com]

TextPad

[benatwork.livejournal.com]

Emacs! :D