Thursday, April 19, 2012

wiki of the future?

Last weekend I have been watching, reading and playing around with Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki. As usual he is a great designer and aims to simple, effective, understandable and useful tools! I particularly like the plugins idea (not new of course) and how easy it seems to be to add new ones, like support for MathJax:
Get inspired you too!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

syntax highlight

The following example shows how to syntax highligh some snippet of code in a very minimalistic way.
I used it by symlinking to a file in the version control repo and name it in as the argument of
$('#code-area').load() and here it is:


  code higlighted with minimal javascript
  
  
  
  


Metacircular code highlighting

The following code is an highlighted version of this very page using SyntaxHighlighter.
You need a decent modern browser to enjoy it.
  

metacircularity

I found and liked a very good summary of the 'Maxwell Equations of software' motto from Alan Kay in this post from Michael Nielsen.

It is nice also because it has running code inspired by all the gurus and books I like: Alan Kay, Peter Norvig, John McCarthy, SICP, Paul Graham.