12 Nov 09 ZenCoding Visual Studio AddIn
4 Feb 2010: I’m no longer working on this addin and cannot provide support for failed installations. I gave some information about possible causes for failed installations in this comment, you can see if that helps, or discuss with other users in the comments. There are unlikely to ever be new versions of this addin published by me, but Boris Sevo has forked the project and has a version with a newer zencoding library at http://zencoding.codeplex.com/. So go there for updates 
The original blog post about the architecture of the addin is now completely out of date as 90% of the addin is now written in IronPython with just a tiny shim layer of C# to instantiate the IronPython classes. I’ll probably write a blog post about that architecture seperately (or generally about how to write addins for VS in IronPython). Those interested in the architecture can download the source and look at it.
A nice tutorial with screenshots on how to setup the keyboard mappings and use the addin has just been posted at http://www.netsi.dk/wordpress/index.php/2009/12/02/zen-coding-a-very-fast-way-of-generating-html-elements-in-your-editor/ so go there for your setup instructions. And there is now a dedicated rss feed for updates at http://tech.einaregilsson.com/zcupdates.aspx so subscribe to that to be notified of new versions. Eventually I’ll put an update check in the addin itself.
ZenCoding.VisualStudio v1.1.0.333
06 Aug 07 Integrating ZenPhoto into Wordpress
ZenPhoto is a great image gallery written in php that I use on another page I have. It has a great admin interface and themes that are simple to use. I wanted to integrate it into a Wordpress blog so I looked around on the net and found a great article about it by a guy named Steffen Rusitschka. It explains how you can get your ZenPhoto gallery to look like your blog by including some Wordpress pages in your ZenPhoto theme. The article is at http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2006/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/.
His method works great but there were a few things that bugged me about it. (more…)
30 Jul 07 Yet Another Random Quote, with editing
On my old site I used to have a random quote feature. When I moved to Wordpress I missed it so I found a plugin that displayed random quotes. It was called Yet Another Random Quote (yarq for short) and lives at http://openmonday.org/2006/07/31/yet-another-random-quote/. It’s a good plugin and works well, but it could only add and delete quotes, not edit existing ones. So I changed it a bit, added editing functionality and moved the quote text fields above the quote list, which I thought was better when you had a lot of quotes. After I’d changed it I emailed the author twice to ask him if he wanted to use my changes in his next version but never heard back from him. So I´m gonna distribute my version here:
You can use Options->YARQ to change the display format, and Manage->Quotes to add, edit and delete the quotes. If my changes ever make it to the trunk I’ll stop distributing it here and just link to the main version. If Frank van der Brink ever reads this, get in contact with me at tech [at] einaregilsson.com and I’ll send you the patch for my changes.
