Scott's code and other ponderings…

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 [...]

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 [...]