Resubscribe to my feed

I’ll be moving the blog from Blogger to GitHub Pages in the next couple of weeks and I’ll be putting the atom feed at a different address. To make sure you keep getting updates from Growing with the Web, resubscribe to the Feedburner URL. This will allow me to switch over the backing feed when the time comes.

GitHub and my plans for the blog

Due to the issues of effectively source controlling the code on my blog using Blogger's text editor and Google Drive, I've gone ahead and extracted most of the code samples into a GitHub project for your viewing and forking pleasure.

I believe a blog post shouldn't be a write once, leave forever thing. It should be alive and keep up with the times, otherwise it could spread misinformation. Having my code samples source controlled will enable me to improve code or fix up old code much more easily.

Future plans

Another idea I've been toying with for the last few months is to redo all my posts in markdown and I've started to implement my plan starting with this post. Not only is this far nicer than editing the raw HTML or using the WYSIWYG editor that Blogger provides, it will also allow me to transition off of Blogger far more easily when the time comes.

Check out the project here.

Change the tab size on GitHub using a custom style extension

As far as I'm aware you can't change the tab size on GitHub when viewing code on the web interface (yet). While I'm sure this feature will eventually be added, in the meantime it kind of sucks to write your code using 4 character tabs and then having it mangled up when viewing on the web UI.

But don't despair, there is a fairly easy fix. We can use the tab-size CSS property to define the tab size on the page.