Category Archives: blogging

To those following this blog: you will have guessed that there’s not a lot of domestic geekery going on nowadays, so I’ve decided to archive these pages for the time being. What am I up to instead? During the day ECMWF … Continue reading →

A quick note to cheer that I fixed an annoyance with my blog rendering on the iPhone/iPad platforms. Text in code blocks or preformatted (i.e. fixed width) came out huge on the iPhone and iPad making things look ridiculous. It … Continue reading →

I’ve just disabled the MailHide WordPress plugin, for content on this blog. I realised it was mangling example code in my posts. Sorry about that!

I’ve got a Perl-specific blog over at blogs.perl.org which has its posts syndicated here (using the excellent FeedWordPress plugin). The trouble is, pre-formatted blocks (i.e. the <pre> tag) are botched when importing, mainly because I need to perpetrate a hack … Continue reading →

I just noticed that with Google Chrome the code snippets of my blog posts have unnecessary vertical scrollbars. This is reported in bug #177 in the SyntaxHighlighter code. A simple fix (already posted to the bug report) is to edit …/styles/shCore.css … Continue reading →

To prepare for a series of posts here on server configuration tricks, I’ve installed one of the WordPress SyntaxHighlighter plugins to my blog. This is a good choice as it exposes the most options from the SyntaxHighlighter JS library. Simply create … Continue reading →