I finally got around to upgrading all the blogs on this site from WordPress 1.5 series to 2.0. It feels slick. Last weekend’s conference encouraged me to look into the hundreds of plugins already written for WordPress. I quickly found a code syntax highlighter:

Hey, it even links to descriptions of standard functions! I didn’t catch that until I wrote this post just now.

Update, July 25, 2020: Time and technology both march along. For years, the code highlighting plugin mentioned above has been broken. Instead, I went through the blog and moved all of the code snippets on this site over to Github’s gist service.

I never cared much for the old theme on this blog, inappropriately named “Simple Green”, but it was one of the few decent themes that had a fluid layout. I don’t think the narrow fixed layout themes fit well for this site. I sometimes need to spread things out. Thankfully, WordPress hosts an amazing themes resource site that enables you to search for certain properties, such as fluid width. I have settled on this Business 1.0 theme and I even delved into the underlying code in order to customize it somewhat. I am truly proud of myself. For the curious, the banner icon comes from here, the same icon set as the MultimediaWiki icon.