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.
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About Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms.

Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions.
Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code.


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