This gets discussed about every couple of weeks. My advice would be to
check the archives, as well as the piclist.com website
(http://www.piclist.com) and check out the programmers list there. Your
best bet is to check out all the programmers you're interested in
yourself, as only you know how complicated a design you can construct,
and whether or not it will truly meet all your specs.

Josh
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Adi Linden wrote:
> What is a good programmer, where documentation is available and that is
> actively maintained to support all the new PICs' out there? Some of my
> requirements are, no external power, can be build myself, in-circuit
> programming.

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http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.