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Contacts, calendars, and now Tasks

Now that I have my contacts and calendar syncing to the cloud, the next step is a Todo list.  And I’ve finally settled on a todo list solution that works for me, my mac, and my mobile life style:  Google Tasks plus Fluid (PC users can use Google Chrome).  Google tasks is lightweight, simple, and mobile accessible.  Fluid creates stand-alone desktop apps from web site applications.

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Let’s say you would like to post some XML in a blog post about, for example, XML in a Django template.  There’s a great plugin called WP-Syntax that adds syntax highlighting to code samples in your blog.  Once installed, you can use some code like this in your templates:

<xml>Hello</xml>

Then switch over to HTML mode and wrap that code in a pre tag like this:

<pre lang="xml" escaped="true">
    <xml>Hello</xml>
</pre>

But there’s a small catch
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Code should be readable.

Recently, I had to make some changes to some XML that had been written in a Django template.  To avoid the xml being rendered by the browser as HTML, the code had been manually escaped, thus making the code rather unreadable.

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