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Syntax Highlighting on Blogspot

Posted by: Ken Sipe on 11/27/2009

I've been very interested in providing some syntax highlighting in my blog posts, which I've been slow in general getting out... ( I have 6 or so queued up ). I finally found something I like and thought I would share the love. Special thanks to @ecounysis on twitter from whom I made this discovery. There are no excuses for my future posts... they will all have nice highlighting and be more easily copied (via the clipboard feature).

The place to start is: http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter:Hosting

From there you'll see the link to: http://blog.cartercole.com/2009/10/awesome-syntax-highlighting-made-easy.html

One important thing to note for those on blogger / blogspot. The initial update of the head tag didn't take for me. The solution for me was to add the highlighting entries at the tail end of head, just prior to the closing tag.

In addition to many of the bundled options... I've added F# and Objective-C from undermyhat.

Ken Sipe's complete blog can be found at: http://kensipe.blogspot.com/

About Ken Sipe

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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