Archive for April, 2007
RestructuredText, Markdown, and Textile (and typography)
When I first discovered Dean Allen’s Textile I thought it was god’s gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
ReST for Markdown and Textile Users
ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective.
Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character […]
Cool URIs don’t change; so what’s considered ‘cool’?
I’ve given a lot of thought, lately, to the famous Cool URIs don’t change W3C document. Should URLs end in a slash or not? Should they end in a file-extension or not? (What if you’re serving multiple formats of the same document?)
I’ve been using a trailing slash (for, admittedly, no defensible reason: the Django guys […]
The Mac OS X Terminal Holy Grail: mrxvt
I’ve been a bit unhappy with terminal offerings on OS X since I switched. I’ve spent a bit of time working with each iTerm, GLTerm, xterm, aterm, eterm, but always end up back with Terminal.app because it’s fast and pretty. My wish list has always been speed and anti-aliased fonts. I use Gnu screen for […]