I’ve just spent an hour looking over our Sharepoint site at work and decided that I wanted to implement the same code syntax highlighting plugin as I use on here, namely the SyntaxHighlighter plugin.

To do this was actually pretty straightforward, once I figured it out. The following steps need to be performed on all three “views” that the blog has: Default, Post and Category. What you need to do is as follows:

1. Put the page in Edit Mode by clicking Site Actions –> Edit Page in the top right corner
   
2. Click   above the “Posts” Web Part
3. Select and press Add
4. On the right side of the Web Part, click Edit and select Modify Shared Web Part
   
5. Click the button
6. Insert the following code snippet:
   

   <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/styles/shCore.css"/>  
   <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/styles/shThemeDefault.css"/>  
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shCore.js"></script>  
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushCSharp.js"></script>  
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushXml.js"></script>  
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/shBrushSql.js"></script>  
   <script type="text/javascript">  
       SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/clipboard.swf';  
       SyntaxHighlighter.all();  
   </script> 

7. To add more brushes, simply add the references you want. To see the list, browse to http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.1.364/scripts/
8. Next, in the tool panel on the right side of the page, expand the Layout section and select Hidden
   
9. Click OK

Now all you need to do is use the PreCode Pluginfor Windows Live Writer (or alternatively just use the <pre class=”brush: csharp”> … code … </pre> in the WYSIWYG editor (remember to click the Edit Html button)

Happy blogging :-)

After having studied BlogEngine.NET for a few days, I decided to make the switch on my own blog. I googled around a bit to figure out how to migrate my existing blog content to the new platform. I quickly decided to go with the instructions I found on merrill.net.

The only major disadvantage is that trackback links are broken. I’ll try to find a way to fix them :-)

So here it is. Shiny and new, running on this great piece of blogging software. Now I just need to figure out how to get my twitter feed shown on here again.

 UPDATE: Simple - just select the Twitter widget in the administration menu and hey presto! it's there :) 

Okay, so my blog has been down for a couple of days. I’m still to receive a real explanation from Surftown about the reason, but apparently it had something to do with something on my site that MIGHT have caused problems on their servers.

So my whole web hotel has been moved to another server, and I’m now awaiting further explanation as to what exactly caused them to panic and shut me down. They have promised me extensive documentation, so we’ll see.

I’ll keep you guys posted as to any interesting information I get from them.

Okay... I installed Windows XP instead. Vista still has too many quirks on my laptop. Maybe after SP1 reaches final, I'll give it another go. Until then, I'm back on Windows XP after several months of being really happy with Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy Gibbon). The reason I'm back to XP is that I found myself really missing Visual Studio for development. MonoDevelop just isn't "there" yet as far as I see it.

Pretty happy to see that Windows Live Writer also exists for XP ;)

I just installed Windows Vista on my laptop and decided to give Windows Live Writer a try for posting blogs. So here's a test post to see how everything works.

Here's a link

And a picture:

So... If this works I might just use this little piece of software to post blogs instead of using the dasBlog web interface.

It even supports tags:

So, we survived. And now it's 2008. I thought I would just write a couple of lines about what's going on in my life. Mostly because it'll be fun reading it next year and seeing how much (if anything) has changed.

Well... I'm still working for Infopaq. I started here last May, as a software engineer. Back in September, I was given more of a project manager type of role, spending most of my time keeping a small team of developers busy as well as shielding them from the rest of the organisation ;-). Anyway, I'm really enjoying it even though it's hard work sometimes. Right now, I'm busy doing a little coding myself, working on a proof of concept for a large potential customer. Hopefully I'll be done in a few days. I'm also hoping that I'll be allowed to hire an extra developer soon.

So what else is going on? Hmm. Well I'm going on a small vacation in March, together with my brothers. We'll be visiting Botswana (where I grew up) for the first time since we left in 1994. The plan is to spend a couple of days in Gaborone and then head north on a week long safari. I'm really looking forward to it. Now I just need to try to save up some money to buy that video camera I've always wanted. I've been looking at a Canon HG10 which records HD-quality video on its built-in 40GB hard drive.

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with where my life is going at the moment - all i need to do is get around to blogging some more :)

I just spent some time upgrading my DasBlog installation to the latest version. I also chose to use a new default theme. It'll take a little getting used to, but I think I like it ;-)

The upgrade was pretty easy - but if I missed something or something doesn't work, please let me know!

Lots of people keep asking me why I write my blog in English. Well it's simple, really. Because most of my visitors are from outside Denmark, I thought I'd broaden the audience a little by writing in something other than Danish.