Today's Null Byte is going to focus on syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting is a helpful feature that will color code certain significant words in a given programming language.

Posterous, the blogging platform, has just announced markdown and syntax highlighting support. This means greater control over styling but also allows its coder bloggers to easily share code.

Rich is a python library written by [Will McGugan] that offers text formatting, colors, graphs, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighting, charts, and more through the power of ANSI codes.