This being a software development blog, I wanted to show some source code. This code should of course be shown in a nicely syntax highlighted way. I searched around on the web a bit, and found some articles that explain how to use the excellent SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev on Blogger, but they're rather old. Here are updated instructions for the new Blogger interface:

  1.  On your blog's dashboard, click Template and then Edit HTML. You'll get a warning that says that you may mess up your blog, but since you're an ace programmer anyway, you don't mind much and you click Proceed.
  2. Find the closing </head> tag and right above it, paste the following:

    <!--SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER BEGINS-->
    <link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
    <link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shThemeDefault.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shCore.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushCpp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushCSharp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushCss.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushJScript.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushPhp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushPython.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushRuby.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushSql.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushVb.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushXml.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushPerl.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushBash.js' type='text/javascript'/>
    <script language='javascript'>
    SyntaxHighlighter.config.bloggerMode = true;
    SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/clipboard.swf';
    SyntaxHighlighter.all();
    </script>
    <!--SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER ENDS-->
  3. Click Save.
  4. Now, to use the syntax hightlighting in your Blogger post, click HTML in the Edit Post window, and write code like this (the example is for HTML code - notice the &lt; instead of < to prevent issues, see Alex's website for more explanation): 

    <pre class="brush:html">
    &lt;input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
    </pre>
    to get this in the resulting post: 

    <input type="Submit" value="Submit" />

That's all!

Update 21 January 2014: This blog now uses highlight.js for syntax highlighting. See also this post.