I came across this post on the Official Google blog and one of the extensions they mentioned is ScribeFire. I’m using it to write this post and while it certainly is able to create a new blog post it has nothing on Windows Live Writer. In particular, inserting a link takes far too long and it makes me wonder if the extension itself is hosted as opposed to running locally in Chrome.
I’ve finally wrestled control of smajnr.net from Microsoft’s Office Live service. So I will be transferring blog.smajn.net to blog.smajnr.net. Currently, I’m not entirely sure how things are going to go. After the transition, I will at least setup a DNS redirect from the old domain to the new domain.
I do plan on posting an article on why you shouldn’t use Microsoft Office Live. After I get things done.
Update:
Looks like the DNS is updated, at least on my end. I’ve setup a permanent 301 redirect from any blog.smajn.net URL to blog.smajnr.net. Things are looking good.
Luka Marinko has a blog post "Code highlighting on blogger” that shows how to get syntax highlighting on code sample with Blogger. The nice thing is it doesn’t require any file hosting on your part.
Examples:
#!/usr/bin/python print "Hello, World!"
#!/usr/bin/ruby puts "Hello, World!"
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
printf("Hello, World!\n");
return 0;
}