cdevroe.com » syntax http://cdevroe.com by Colin Devroe Fri, 25 May 2012 19:23:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Using Markdown http://cdevroe.com/notes/using-markdown/ http://cdevroe.com/notes/using-markdown/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:54:23 +0000 Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/?p=5056 I know I’m late to the game but I’m now using John Gruber’s Markdown for writing on this site as well as documentation at work. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

Oh, I’m using Mark Jaquith’s Markdown on Save WordPress plugin and it works great.

]]> http://cdevroe.com/notes/using-markdown/feed/ 0 More microsyntax for Twitter from Chris Messina http://cdevroe.com/links/messina-twitter-microsyntax/ http://cdevroe.com/links/messina-twitter-microsyntax/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:10 +0000 Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/?p=3063 Chris Messina, founding father of the the ever-popular (and sometimes not) Hashtag, has proposed a few more syntax specific ways of doing things on Twitter. Chris is suggesting that we use /via instead of (via @cdevroe), /by for quote credits, and /cc for carbon-copying messages to specific people on Twitter.

Chris gives good examples for each of his suggestions so if you have no idea what any of the above means I suggest reading his post.

I like these suggestions but I don’t believe /via will hold up well. RT @username may end up going away with Twitter’s new Retweet feature rolling out. And typically /via @username would be used in those circumstances. I could be wrong though.

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