Due to the limitations of using a free WordPress.com blog, and the fact that I already have a webserver with available space, I’ve decided to move this blog to a new home: http://tuttletree.com/nerdblog/

I will miss being listed in the RSS feeds for the Coldfusion tag, etcetera, but in this case the juice is worth the squeeze.

As this is a free wordpress.com blog, I unfortunately don’t have the ability to edit the CSS of my theme. I tried every single theme offered, even the pink ones, and none of them have adequate support for the <code> tag, in my opinion. I don’t think I’m asking too much: a fixed width font, and horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping.

So I set to work on applying every free theme available and checking out how the code in my first post appeared. Needless to say, I was not happy. Most themes do use a fixed-width font, but none of them offer horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping. The closest I found was a theme called Freshy 1.0. I didn’t dwell on it long (why bother? It doesn’t have horizontal scrolling!) but its author did find a way to number the lines, which is an added bonus. Except that wrapped lines were given a new line number every time they wrap, which is inaccurate.

I’ve noticed that Dave Shuck, who I mentioned in my last post, likes to use codeShare, which has a really nice polish to it – but only archives your submissions for up to 8 weeks, as best I can tell. I hate running into dead links, let alone finding code examples that are no longer available. I can see myself writing a permanently archiving clone of codeShare if I can’t get a theme solution in place.

I’ve offered to modify a few of the free themes to include better support for the tag, so we’ll see where that goes. In the meantime, if anyone is aware of other creative solutions like codeShare that don’t purge your submissions I’m quite interested.