Holsee's Blog

Hello World!

I’ve moved my blog now from http://holsee.blogspot.com to my newly purchase hosting from Dreamhost.

Blogger was fine, a vast improvement over Microsoft offering Live Spaces, but so far I have to say I’m very impressed with Wordpress.

I decided I would link to my old blog rather than importing all my old posts.. I don’t know.. I guess I just want a fresh start and my old posts wont be going anywhere so its all good.

Syntax Highlighting

I love changing my themes so I needed to make sure whatever I used for syntactical highlighting had to work with both dark and light themes. I am using the WP-Syntax Wordpress plug-in. I’ll no doubt play with a few others before I settle.  Syntax Highlighter 2.x is another option but I was getting some funky behaviour when I used a Dark them.

For the mean time my code is going to look like this:

C#

public static void Main(string[] args){
	Console.WriteLine("Hi Whirld!");
}

Ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
 
get '/hi' do
  "Hello World!"
end
 
get '/hello/:name' do
    # matches "GET /hello/foo" and "GET /hello/bar"
    # params[:name] is 'foo' or 'bar'
    "Hello #{params[:name]}!"
end

I plan to blog mostly surrounding my two languages for choice C# & Ruby.. but I’m a bit of a language nerd so there will no doubt be allsorts.

Oh.. I’m looking to look into the space of DSLs and Code Generation so I’ll most likely be rambling about my experiences.

Time to sleep, meeting the bank manager tomorrow to open a business account.. fun never ends.

Goodbye World!