Moving Past BlueCloth —
Fast Markdown libraries for Ruby: two for the price of one.
tomayko.com
15:43
man what —
Chris Wanstrath makes the case for UNIX man pages and tours through a bunch of tools for creating, finding, and reading them.
ozmm.org
08:23
FreshPorts -- textproc/rdiscount —
RDiscount, a fast Markdown library for Ruby, is now included with the FreeBSD ports collection thanks to Daniel Roethlisberger.
freshports.org
11:40
Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord —
Interesting Rails plugin from Viget Labs that adds ActiveRecord attribute helpers for various humane markup languages. The markdown variation supports both rdiscount and rpegmarkdown. Cool. Not sure how I missed it when it was released in August.
viget.com
09:00
RDiscount API Documentation —
An initial version of RDiscount’s API docs just published on rubyforge…
wink.rubyforge.org
17:16
Babelmark — Markdown Testbed —
Compare (as in, diffs) the output of 15 different Markdown implementations. Includes every Markdown implementation I’ve ever come across and then some…
babelmark.bobtfish.net
17:01
peg-markdown —
An implementation of Markdown in portable ANSI C that’s roughly 28.5x faster than the canonical Perl implementation on a 179K test file. Looks like a complete implementation; includes smarty and footnote extensions.
github.com
21:10
Maruku: a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby —
This looks promising: handles all of Markdown proper plus various extensions.
maruku.rubyforge.org
06:02
Markdown + Make vs. Microsoft Word —
Hell yea..
alleged.org.uk
19:00