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This is my second test of a code syntax highlighter, in this case the Geshi-based syntax highlighter plugin.
This isn’t very successful either. The problem is with multiline cut and paste, certainly in Firefox. Doesn’t behave how you would hope. I’ve manually added the line returns to the CSS example, and that behaves fine, but the [...]

These notes are taken from the above talk on 27th November 2006, given by Angela Martin, James Noble and Robert Biddle.
The bulk of the first half of the session was an extended planning game, with several elements of chaos thrown into the mix. The intention was to give us all a good idea what it [...]

I’ve been asked to find a Wordpress plugin for source-code highlighting in posts. My first research leads me to the belief that the area to look at are plugins which use the Generic Syntax Highlighter or GeSHi. This can handle over 200 different languages, so should be flexible enough for our needs.
So the first plugin [...]

What follows are my notes on Pascal van Cauwenberge’s presentation at the London XP Day 2006.
Why is it useful to us? Because it is reflected in many Agile processes and ideologies.
14 Management Principles, split into 4 categories:

Philosophy
Process
People and Partners
Problem-solving and Organizational Learning

Process
The right process will lead to the right results
2. Flow
Work has to continuously flow
MUDA [...]

I’ve been meaning for a while to submit the sitemaps for my domains to Google’s Webmaster Central site. Having a sitemap for the googlebot to read improves how your site is crawled, and means only the pages you want are submitted. It has recently also become a format recognised by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, which [...]

I’m starting to find my way around my new install of Ubuntu. This morning I found I had loads of errors in my Perl scripts stored in Eclipse. A quick check revealed that it was due to not having certain Perl modules installed on my machine. So I would have to install them for suitable [...]

Great article over at downloadsquad.com on keeping your inbox cleared and up to date. I’m trying to do this on both my work and personal mail, and at the moment it is mainly working. I had already employed most of the tactics myself, thanks to reading Getting Things Done (GTD), but it is a great [...]

I’ve got a little project on the go at the moment to list all the software I’ve got on all of my machines. I’m using del.icio.us to store the homepages of each item of software, and tagging them with a label for each machine the software is on, and the version number installed. The logic [...]

During an onerous task today, I think I learnt a valuable lesson in choosing an appropriate software package. We’re moving from a Blosjom-based blog to a Wordpress one. Now I’m happy with this change, seeing as this past year I’ve spent so much of my own time using Wordpress. The issue we had was moving [...]

I’ve just started using Dean’s FCK Wordpress plugin on this blog. I really am not a fan of the standard WYSIWYG Wordpress editor, it is really flakey, and not very intuitive. The FCK editor is a bit more comprehensive, and as it happens, I am also more used to it, as it is in the [...]