Are there any good free blogging tools for programming?

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What is best blogging host for programmers/code formatting?
What is a good blog hosting service for programmers?

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I have currently been using wordpress, but it is very lackluster... I am unable to do any effective code syntax highlighting, for example. I am thinking about simply using github pages, but I don't know if I'm willing to deal with it.

Are there any good free programmer-friendly blogs that make (at the very least) syntax highlighting easy?

Edit: Key here is free. I don't feel like paying for anything while I'm still experimenting.

Answer 1

No need to look further. the free Wordpress-plugin WP-Syntax will implement GeSHI and give you syntax highlighting as good as it gets.

Answer 2

As christian says. I used it and it works well, it supports lots of languages (example).

Answer 3

I use WordPress with the SyntaxHighlighter plugin. You can see an example here

Answer 4

There's a parallel discussion going on here that seems to recommend Windows Live Writer and a plug-in for this kind of thing. Even if this plugin doesn't do quite what you want, the plug-in model for WLW is fairly easy to grok if you want to roll your own.