I have been thinking for quite some time what would be the best way to store useful coding information. I have tried Google documents some mac applications but It wasn’t really working for me. I wanted to have these snippets available anytime, categorized by programming language. I was even thinking I could write simple application for this but at the end I have decided to use Wordpress. I have made decision based on the fact that I have been working with Wordpress engines for couple of years and specially because there are plugins which will make this simple to implement.
I was particularly interested in plugin which would highlight the code in the blog post but more importantly in the comments as well. I have found one so at that moment the mission was basically accomplished. To build a Wordpress site with consistent simple design is just a matter of couple of days.
Make it fun
The development part wasn’t challenge for me anymore so I have focused on design. I wanted to bring a life into coding. You will usually find these type of sites looking quite boring with just a raw code. I wanted to make it more fun because I believe coding is fun! I used very fresh colour palette with a huge image on the top. The code snippets comes in colors which match the theme (even I still need to tweak some of the languages colour schemes). The comments colour scheme is always the same (blue) so you could easily recognize where the post finishes and where the code from comment starts.
Easy to use
I have tried to create a site which is easy to use, the site when you do not have to think for a second what is about and how to use it.
Say hello to code & config
I have not made the site just for me even I might the person who will use it the most, you are all welcome to come and share you ideas around the code snippets. There is going to be lots of rails code quite soon as I am in the process of learning rails and I will be starting with actual coding in the next couple of days.
Ahhhh the url – Code & config.
