Sharing Blog Example Code

Sharing Blog Example Code

I've been blogging since 2005, using various tools for publishing readable code. Originally you'd just put code out there, no colors, just a pre tag and some indention. Then 'export to html' became pretty standard in various editors, and everyone's life got better. These days, people want code examples available to play with - and I use GitHub to make that possible. I've been toying with different formats for sharing code, and my last blog entry demonstrates what I've settled on.Each blog entry with a non-trivial amount of code will live in a repository owned by blog-jayfields-com Commits will contain working code that can be executed (if possible) I'll use gist-it to embed code that can be found in the GitHub repo I'll create a gh-pages index.html with the content of the blog entry, for people to review and provide feedback. Hopefully the extra integration with GitHub wil...

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