[OT] "Code Friendly" Blog?

[Miki]

Hello,

Posting code examples to blogger.com hosted blog is not fun (need to
remember alway escape < and >).
Is there any free blog hosting that is more "code friendly" (easy to
post code snippets and such)?

Thanks,

 

[Hai Vu]

Hello,

Posting code examples to blogger.com hosted blog is not fun (need to
remember alway escape < and >).
Is there any free blog hosting that is more "code friendly" (easy to
post code snippets and such)?

Thanks,

how about bracketing your code in the <pre></pre> tags?

Something like this:
<pre>
import sys, os, shutil

def getDir(fullPath):
dirName, fileName = os.path.split(fullPath)
return dirName
</pre>

 

[Mel]

how about bracketing your code in the <pre></pre> tags?

Something like this:
<pre>
import sys, os, shutil

def getDir(fullPath):
dirName, fileName = os.path.split(fullPath)
return dirName
</pre>

That won't help the escape problem, though it will preserve vital
Python whitespace. HTML has to be interpreting '<' characters to
recognize the '</pre>'.

Mel.

 

[Miki]

Hello Mel,

[Hai]

how about bracketing your code in the <pre></pre> tags?

[Mel]
That won't help the escape problem, though it will preserve vital
Python whitespace. HTML has to be interpreting '<' characters to
recognize the '</pre>'.

They also manage to mess up the first indentation in the <pre>
section

Thanks,

 

[Ryan Ginstrom]

On Behalf Of Miki

Posting code examples to blogger.com hosted blog is not fun
(need to remember alway escape < and >).
Is there any free blog hosting that is more "code friendly"
(easy to post code snippets and such)?

I use WordPress with the Dean's Code Highlighter plugin[1] (which uses the
Geshi code highlighter).
You write your code like this:
<pre lang="python">
print "hello, world!"</pre>

You do need to escape angle brackets, though. You also have to turn off
WYSIWYG editing in WordPress, or it'll mess things up.

Here's an example of how it turns out:
http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2007/11/17/fixing-jis-mojibake-with-python/

[1] http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/code_highlighter_plugin_for_wordpress/

Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

how about bracketing your code in the <pre></pre> tags?

And how will that help with the problem the Original Poster asked about?

 

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Is there any free blog hosting that is more "code friendly" (easy to
post code snippets and such)?

I personally use a Wordpress installation on my own machine with an additional
plugin for syntax highlighting. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/

IIRC it uses <pre lang="python"> for highlighting Python for example.
It works quite well.

If you can host stuff yourself you might even like to check out
http://textpress.pocoo.org/ - a beginning Python solution.

 

[Guy Rutenberg]

I personally use a Wordpress installation on my own machine with an additional
plugin for syntax highlighting.http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/

I use the same configuration (Wordpress + wp-syntax) too. I can say
I'm pretty satisfied with it. I had no problem posting python code.
IIRC Wordpresss will automatically escape < and > for you (if it's no
part of tag).

Regards,
Guy

http://www.guyrutenberg.com/

 

[Hai Vu]

Miki,
Why don't you try to use Code Colorizer:
http://www.chamisplace.com/colorizer/cc.asp

 

[Stefan Behnel]

Why don't you try to use Code Colorizer:
http://www.chamisplace.com/colorizer/cc.asp

Looks like it lacks support for one important language, though...

Stefan