Frank Carver’s Punch Barrel

Maybe I should look to do something like this myself - Mark Levison lists (three takes on) his top ten posts of the year.

Notes from a Tool User: Top Ten of 2008

Up until recently, I was using a Wordpress plugin called “WP-codebox” to format my code samples in this blog, but today it broke my RSS feed, so I have abandoned it. I liked the “geshi” syntax highlighting engine used inside it, but unfortunately it generated flaky HTML, and was not smart enough to disable JavaScript in feeds.

I have now replaced it with WP-syntax. using it is very similar, just wrap code examples in (for example)

<pre lang="Java">
class Whatever {
  public void thing() {
    if(thisHappens()) {
      doThis();
      doThat();
    }
  }
}
</pre>

gives

class Whatever {
  public void thing() {
    if(thisHappens()) {
      doThis();
      doThat();
    }
  }
}

Please let me know if you have any problems with the appearance of code samples, especially if you use a feed reader or aggegator.

This blog is unashamedly a “fast” blog. I started it with the express intent of collecting, annotating, and sharing the many interesting web resources which I bump into on a day-to-day basis.

However, I do sometimes miss the way that I would write longer, more thoughtful and reflective, articles on some of my previous blogs. I wonder if there is any way which I can achieve both…

elearnspace: I am a slow blog

This news is a few days old, but still worth considering. Blogging is sharing, and sharing is such a good thing for all ages and locations. Reading about a 108-year-old enlivening her final years with global connections is heartwarming.

World’s oldest blogger makes final post - web - Technology - smh.com.au

This looks as if it might be useful, particularly when blogging about software development or when writing HTML documentation. An Eclipse plugin which allows easy copy/paste of code with HTML syntax highlighting.

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