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20040113 Tuesday January 13, 2004

[New Feature] Wiki Syntax support added to comments For you, my friends, I've added the ability to use JSPWiki syntax when writing comments. All you need to do is start your comment with an exclamation point - ! Hopefully this will help add automatic line-breaks when you add a line-break in the textarea, as well as making it easier for you to you to type in any code. If you're typing or pasting in Java code, try using the Java2HtmlPlugin. It's easy to use, just type the starting and closing tags, and insert a blank line before your code. For example, here's the raw text. 

[{Java2HtmlPlugin 

public class HelloWorld {  
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Hello World!");
  }
}
}]

I don't know if the "Preview" button (from the Permalink) supports it, but I've added the following to both twisty comments and regular comments. 

        #if($content.startsWith("!"))
            #set( $wikiText = $stringUtils.substring($content,1))
            #set( $renderedText = $wikiPlugin.render($wikiText))
        #else
            #set( $renderedText = $content )  
        #end
            $renderedText

Enjoy! Posted in Roller at Jan 13 2004, 05:48:44 PM MST 3 Comments

Good News from TheServerSide I woke this morning and was doing my normal perusing of JavaBlogs and came across a couple of gems: Middlegen 2.0 VO was released and TheServerSide.com has a new UI. A couple of thoughts I had:

  • What the heck does VO stand for in the Middlegen Release message? Does this new release support Struts 1.1?
  • The new UI for TSS looks great, but did they intentionally not set a background color on the page (shows up gray on my screen)? I think they forgot to set a background-color, because the stylesheet doesn't have one defined. Do me a favor, if you're a web developer, change your default background color in your browser to something obnoxious (i.e. purple) so you don't make this same mistake. Granted, most browsers default to white, but this is a mistake that only rookies make.

Posted in Java at Jan 13 2004, 06:28:56 AM MST 6 Comments