http://nomadicoder.com Coding wherever I happen to be Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:43:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://nomadicoder.com/2010/02/03/stupid-smilies/ http://nomadicoder.com/2010/02/03/stupid-smilies/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:30:53 +0000 Steven http://nomadicoder.com/2010/02/03/stupid-smilies/ Continue reading →]]> It was a good idea to start blogging lessons learned as I code, but it took almost as long to post a correctly formatted entry when I ran into one problem. WordPress creates emoticons automagically. Even if the text is embedded in a <code> or <pre> block. My last posting contained a :order symbol, which WordPress converted into a laughing smiley. Thinking it was in my code, I manually retyped in the text, tried a code tag, and removed extraneous tags to no avail. WordPress has a setting that takes care of this. Emoticon conversion is turned on by default, a bad thing for Ruby bloggers. Problem fixed, after wasting too much time doing the right thing.

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