Following on from my article on using Live Writer for code snippets, I found this excellent article on WebTechDaily that gives 10 reasons to use WLW for [...]
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One of the things that surprised me, when I started fiddling around with BlogSpot a couple of months back, is that there is no inherent capability to format source code in a posting. I came across a few solutions (well, hacks…) and even posted on one solution last month. It was still a pretty yucky solution, though, involving hosting the code snippets at another site and then hacking the HTML to refer to it. It also seemed (although, this could have been my incompetence) to be very easy to screw up the rest of formatting in the posting. Anyway – I found a better solution! Using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer, I can compose my postings offline in a much friendlier front end. OK [...] I’ve been trying to squeeze my ponderings into the blogger.com space and I’m just so……. frustrated…. 1) There is no generic code format. I tried to use the quotes but they are just unfathomable.2) The HTML editor is infathomable. I end up with tiny, tiny, tiny text because I’m not closing quotes correctly. Now, My Google, if I was in charge of the content and I could place my quotes wherever I fancied, then I would buy into that. However, I am at the mercy of your formatting engine (even when I switch to HTML mode) and you still make it unpredictable and unusable… Update; A workaround has been posted at http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-to-publish-good-looking-code-on.html – I’m not keen on the suggestion that I host the [...] My vote of support for my hobby project is to Billy McCafferty’s Sharp Architecture. The code is at http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/ and the newsgroups are at http://groups.google.com/group/sharp-architecture If you want to create a project with ASP.NET MVC or NHibernate, then [...] |
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