Hello everyone, I’m Chris. I am one of the new(ish) members of the Posterous team. We are proud to announce Markdown support for Posterous blogs. This is a great way for software developers or advanced power bloggers to control the markup of their posts with a lot more precision. Now you can post using Markdown with the same simplicity you’ve come to expect from Posterous.

We also snuck in rich, beautiful syntax highlighting with CodeRay for our tech bloggers who post a lot of code snippets. We support highlighting for all of these languages: C, C++, CSS, Delphi, diff, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Nitro-XHTML, PHP, Python, RHTML, Ruby, Scheme, SQL, XML and YAML.

Here’s a quick example. If you post this markdown text via email (or in the HTML view of the post editor):

You’ll get the following HTML in your post:

Here is a sample heading

# sample ruby code snippet
class Posterous
  def highlight
    "awesomeness"
  end
end

A full breakdown of how to take advantage of this feature can be found here http://posterous.com/help/markdown. Enjoy! And as always, if you’ve got questions, fire them over to us at help@posterous.com.