When I have an idea in my head, I first open a notepad and write the idea out. I then think of everything that will need to be done for it. For example, I'm starting a new hack now. Recently viewed threads. (NO ETA YET ;)) And in my notepad I have things like this...

I just type it out so I have an idea and I can start to see if any problems would happen or if I'll need to add more conditions/queries....

Also, taking a break helps me alot. I'll code for 8-10 hours stright. Get mad cause something isn't working right. Then I'll take a little break, smoke a ciggerate, go to the store, lay in bed. While I'm taking the break I'm consintly thinking about the solution; most of the time it just pops up and I'm like... "damm, that wasn't hard" :p.

Tutorials, and seeking others code helps alot also. Don't forget Trial and Error :p

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I used to lay in bed thinking of different solutions but now I have to force myself to go to sleep because I don't have the luxury of staying up all night.
I have to get up at 8am and go to school.

When I need to do very complicated programming with multiple loops while's if else etc. I also do that sometime's

I use dreamweaver for code mainly cos it has the sites **** to one side so i can view all files in my sites and have quick axx to them. dont much care about fancy highlights and colors and ****. Tab works for me that keeps my code in check and prevents a lot of **** ups. I find using indentations in your code while writing prevents you from missing silly things like a bracket etc. Dreamweaver does have highlights though too for php and can often help when you miss something you shouldnt but can be bloody annoying too.
I tried LiveWires way of coding writing it all down first and doing that way but i found myself asking why write it twice lol since i can proly see the code in my head better than i can the english to describe it lol makes more sense to just jump on in and see what happens. All my test **** is done offline so if a do **** up nobody ever gonna know ;)

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i love the search within files feature in dreamweaver, but the that's one giant resource hogger app

I use Winsyntax to code all my hacks. Heres me coding the new portal system :p

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how can you code with a monitor that blurry?

I use Crimson Editor which has syntax highlighting and underlining (I guess it would be called.
For exampe if you had open and closed curly brackets you'd see an underline under the bracket you put your cursor next to.

I'm using SciTE atm Nice tool supports alot of language's including support for highlighting recognation of functions. You are also able to close if {} etc. To get a better overview