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I was reading an article from Sitepoint I've been meaning to read for sometime, a Q&A interview of Jelsoft's co-owner John Percival. The article is helluva old, dated back to 2002 February, so if you have read it, and feel tempted to shout "hey loser get with it!" I'll understand. :cry:

Anyway, I'd like to point out this from the article.....

SP: Can you tell us a bit about the programming environment -- both physical (your office space) and onscreen -- in which vBulletin was created?

Sure. I tend to work in a fairly quiet environment with as few distractions as possible. Music on in the background is good, although I'm often concentrating so hard that I don't notice the CD finishing :-) During the time in which I originally developed vBulletin, I tended to work quite late, and solidly for hours at a time, before taking a considerable break and getting some sleep. I found that I was more productive over solid, concentrated periods of time, rather than little bits here and there.

Most of the design work for vBulletin was done on computer, but I always have a pen/pencil and paper handy in case I need to make notes or to sketch something out. Most of the development work was done using TextPad (textpad.com), which I now swear by for all my PHP work. It's an excellent, handy little text editor that does everything I need, without being over complicated, over-pretty, or clunky.

Testing work was done on my local machine, with Apache and MySQL running under Win98 (now Win2k). The great thing about PHP is that you don't need expensive development tools -- a simple text editor is all that's required, and PHP/MySQL/Apache are all free, so it's a very low-cost solution.

That's exactly how I am! Does this mean I've got a good chance of finding some entrepreneurial software product to make huge bucks similar to as Jelsoft did?

........ *cough*

Probably not, but.. to the main question, how many of us find ourselves programming in this habit/environment?