Today at the Fachhochschule happened the first developer meeting in Bern. The first tasks were the presentation of each participant and to collect the interests to discuss.
After that Florian Kammermann presented his thoughts about software development. He’s highly interested in business oriented software developing. That means for him, that you have to be agile and follow the principles like DRY, separation of concerns, etc.
At the end of his presentation he showed his favoured design patterns strategy pattern and state pattern. He showed the patterns by java examples.
I often post code in my blog posts, so the SyntaxHighlighter by is very useful. But there are several plug-ins for WordPress, the question is which one is the most comfortable and has the most configuration options:
Offline blogging tool support
When I post technical blog posts with code in it, then I prefer the way over an offline blogging tool. Currently I use for this use case Windows Live Writer, also because it is free. But when you use a such tool, you should have good support for writing code and support for the SyntaxHighlighter. For Windows Live Writer there exists several plug-ins for the SyntaxHighlighter:
Unfortunately some of those plug-ins aren’t very well tested, but to add code to a blog posts they do their job.
Conclusion
After testing the several plug-ins for WordPress and Windows Live Writer, I prefer currently the following plug-ins:
After several years of using Firefox, I’ve got my favourites under the available Add-ons for my preferred Browser Firefox:
Tabs
Links
Language
Downloads
Development
I try to keep the number of the installed Add-ons small to avoid an “Add-ons-hell”. Are there any other indispensable useful Add-ons for Firefox?
