Up until now I have used the Hightlight Source Pro plugin to display source code on this blog. This plugin is OK and works well but I wanted better layout and readability for my code so I have now changed to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin.
I hope this will make the reading code snippets experience on my blog even better.
When I started this blog I didn’t put much thought in the categories I created. Therefore I decided to organize my posts into new categories today. I also use this blog as a personal “wiki” so it was about time to make it easier to find old posts.
I have now created the following categories: Continue reading »
A few days ago I got an e-mail from one of the editors at DZone inviting me to become a DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB). First I didn’t really know what this was but when I found that highly skilled persons like Mike Cohn, Ted Neward and Jurgen Appelo are DZone MVBs I was convinced that this was a great opportunity. I humbly accepted the invitation and I am now official a DZone MVB.
So what is a DZone MVB?
We have entered 2010 and I am now actually enjoying (a lot of people are complaining) the cold and nice winter weather in Oslo (20 degrees Celsius below freezing). I have had a hectic start on this year preparing the start up of a large national project. This is very exciting and I find this a promising start on 2010.
2009 was the year that I started this blog. It has been interesting writing the posts and communicating with my readers. I have also learned a lot in 2009 and I will for sure continue writing posts on topics I find interesting.
Today I did some cleaning on my laptop; removing old unused programs and updating/installing new programs. When I installed the newest Windows Live package I got the Windows Live Writer and thought that I would give it a try.
It was very easy to get started, just run the program, type the url to your blog and provide your username and password. I needed to do one change in my blog settings and that was to enable XML-RPC for remote publishing. You find this option under Tools –> Writing
I have now added support for code highlighting. To achieve this I installed the Highlight Source Pro plugin, it is based on GeSHi and supports several programming languages.
After installing PercentMobile on my blog I found that I have quite a few readers visiting my blog using Windows Mobile devices. I know that reading a blog on the mobile device built-in browser can be awkward so I decided to take some actions improving the look & feel for Windows Mobile devices.
This was done by installing MobilePress a plugin for WordPress that redirects mobile devices to a better looking page/layout. I only enabled this for Windows Mobile devices. iPhone users will get the iPhone look & feel provided by WPtouch and visitors using Opera Mini will get the look & feel from Opera Mini.
I have added a plugin called WPtouch on this blog. Reading this blog from iPhone or iPod touch will now give you an iPone application-like look and feel. This should also work for Android phones (have been tested on the T-mobile G1). I hope you enjoy:)
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