How to Setup Syntax Highlighting in MediaWiki

Steps for setting up GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter) on MediaWiki: Download GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter). Upload geshi.php and the geshi folder to your MediaWiki extensions folder. Create GeSHiHighlight.php using this source code. Copy the following line to your LocalSettings.php file. include(“extensions/GeSHiHighlight.php”); Add code to a MediaWiki page using <pre> tags. <php><?php echo “Hello World!”; ?></php> […]

The Intermechanics of Lollygagging

How to Be a Productive Procrastinator was the topic at hand on Talk of the Nation on June 12, 2008. Rationalizing our dawdling, Neal Conan lead a discussion about the latest on procrastination from Timothy Pychyl, blogger of Don’t Delay on Psychology Today and professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and John […]

PHP::Impact Names Most Influential PHP Apps

PHP::Impact recently named sixteen PHP open source applications that have “changed the world” including two of my all-time favorite, much loved, and long used web phenomenons, WordPress and Gallery. Ten years running is a long time for the popular, pragmatic, database-wielding phpMyAdmin to have been in high demand—I had no idea phpMyAdmin had been around […]

SMX Advanced at the Olympic Sculpture Park

SMX Advanced networking party at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.

Come to Blogging for Business (B4B) • June 6, 2008 in Salt Lake City

There is an exceptional line up of speakers for the upcoming Blogging for Business (B4B) 2008 Conference this Friday, June 6, 2008 in Salt Lake City. Registration is $299 and you can sign up at http://regonline.com/b4b2008. I’ll be at the event, and I am looking forward to networking with the B4B crowd.

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