Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Coding in blogs

Coding in blogs is hard. There are a bunch of strategies, like:
  • extending html with the tag - the wikipedia way
  • copy source as HTML - ok, if you've got no problem with the code it generates
  • online formatter - problem: the online formatter has to know your keywords, not your IDE
  • snapshot your code
This last one is really annoying, because you loose all the search and copy capabilities. One of the greatest advantages of posting into a community is to donate your code to be searched, indexed, consolidated, data-mined and copied, creating a network of value greater than the individual parts. And yes, this is unfortunately Scott Guthrie's choice, of all people. Argh...

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