Irrational Exuberance

Entries tagged with markdown

1. Title: ReST, Textile and HTML in Markdown
   Tags: lifeflow markdown

   Recently I have run into a few situations where I really wanted to avoid Markdown messing with segments of text, and there isn't a completely intuitive way to deal with that by default, so I put together a quick solution. And.. while I was at it I added some support for rendering Textile and ReST from within Markdown as well.

2. Title: Don't Repeat Yourself for Bloggers: Dynamic Blog Context in LifeFlow
   Tags: blog lifeflow markdown
   Series: Learning LifeFlow

   Programmers talk about DRY, or Don't Repeat Yourself, all the time. Its a strategy for making programming more pleasant, more efficient, and to reduce errors. LifeFlow uses a simple idea, which I have brazenly labeled Dynamic Blog Context, to try to take a few steps toward DRY while writing blogs.

3. Title: Cleanly Extending Python Markdown with Syntax Highlighting
   Tags: markdown python

   A look at extending the Python Markdown library. It happens to be an extremely well written library, so extending it is a bit more fun than it ought to be. Take a look.