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Syntax-highlighting code in blog posts

SyntaxHighlighter is an easy to use syntax highlighter for posting code snippets in blogs. Here are the steps to incorporate SyntaxHighlighter into Blogger : Go to the blog dashboard and select Layout for your blog. Choose Edit HTML. In the <head> section, paste in these two lines: <link href='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Styles/SyntaxHighlighter.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/> <script language='javascript' src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shCore.js'/> In addition, for each language that you intend to highlight, add lines to import the relevant JavaScript libraries. The full list of supported languages is here . Here's the example for XML: <script language='javascript' src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushXml.js'/> Finally, right at the bottom before the </body> tag, add: <script...

Cloud Connect 2009

Cloud Connect 2009 is a free unconference with technical sessions about cloud computing. It's being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California from January 20th to 22nd 2009. Register today!

Migrating from Palm Calendar to Google Calendar and iPhone

Here are the free steps to migrate from Palm's date book (or Pimlico's DateBk6 ) calendar to Google calendar for full iPhone sync. First, sync Palm with Palm Desktop . Next, open Palm Desktop, select the Calendar view, navigate to File | Export, select Export Type as Date Book Archive, Range as All and provide a file name. This will export the calendar data as Date Book Archive (.dba). There's a paid tool called DBA2CSV that converts .dba files to .csv files. However this can be done for free using Yahoo Calendar. Login into Yahoo Calendar and via Settings/Import, import the .dba file. It helps to have an empty Yahoo Calendar. Via Settings/Export, export the calendar as .csv file. Login to Google Calendar (also works with Google Apps For Your Domain GAFYD Calendar) and import the .csv file into any of the calendars. It is a good idea to create a test calendar and test the import before importing into your real calendar. That way if anything goes wrong, you can delet...

Mashup Camp 2008

Mashup Camp 2008 starts today and runs though the 19th. Full camp schedule is here .

Silicon Valley CodeCamp 2008 - Nov 8th and 9th

The Silicon Valley Code Camp is a community event where developers learn from fellow developers. All are welcome to attend and speak. This year the Code Camp is being held on November 8th and 9th 2008 at Foothill College . Attendance is free but space is limited; so be sure to register for the Code Camp .

The Open Source Census

Traditional software procurement practices in any enterprise involve channels which readily lend themselves to gathering statistics about usage (based on procurement, license agreements, the transaction details, etc.). However with Open Source Software (OSS), typically the software enters the enterprise via direct downloads by individuals within the company making it difficult to get a holistic picture of OSS adoption. For the OSS community as well, there isn't much visibility beyond the number of downloads. The Open Source Census is a "global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software in the enterprise." The project requests that users of OSS register anonymously with the site and download the OSS Discovery (via BitTorrent ) scanning software. At the time of registration, the user is also provided with a census code. The OSS Discovery software scans one or more systems and produces a report of the OSS packages dis...

Aurora

Aurora by Adaptive Path is a concept of how future browser interactions might be in terms of collaboration and social networking. Checkout the video showing some of the plans for Aurora: Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo . Aurora (Part 2) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo .