You Should Start a Blog
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You Should Start a Blog
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#2I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements:
* No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal
* Easy to configure and deploy
* Internal comments subsystem preferable
I'm lookin at Jekyll for static content, which is pretty much what a simple blog can be, but I keep getting errors trying to use rubygems (not a rubyist, here).
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#3I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
What errors are you running into? Jekyll is actually a great choice. Deployment to S3/Cloudfront can net you a highly performant blog at a very low cost. Comments can be brought in using a service like Disqus.
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#4I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
Use Pelican then. It's built on Python. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
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#5> Blogs were invented to teach. The mission of blogging is to empower all of us to go directly to each other with our expertise.
>Blogging helps you turn your flow of ideas into a stock of content.
>You create opportunities. I’ve met a ton of cool people through my blog.
>Finally, blogging helps you build your skills. Remember, the big gap is the one between doing nothing and doing something, not the one between lousy work and great work.
Although I recognize this very positive post is not intended in this way, this ends up seeming to me at heart a rather cynically narrow definition of blogging, one that has little to do with self-expression and sharing and a lot to do with making an investment in a work-related product that will make you more effective and marketable.
I don't disagree that you should start a blog right now. But starting it for the reasons listed in this post is only one way out of many, and if you ask me a sort of outlet for workaholism.
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#6I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
Why not use WordPress? It's simple to install, configure, and deploy. Works on any web host. Internal comments. Auto-updates to keep you running on the latest version if you want.
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#7In my an elective at my college, we had to create blogs for our projects. My professor insisted on that for one main reason - "You think once when you develop. You think twice before presenting it. But you think thrice when you put it down in a blog".
When I had to blog every week about my project, I didn't just verify what I had written, but was compelled to read a lot more because what I write can be viewed by anyone else! So we take that _extra_ care in putting down right content. And when we do that, the concepts sink down deep! I think that's one of the good parts of blogging I enjoy the most!
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#8I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
What errors are you running into? Jekyll is actually a great choice. Deployment to S3/Cloudfront can net you a highly performant blog at a very low cost. Comments can be brought in using a service like Disqus.
Or just deploy it to GitHub.
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#9I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
Octopress [1] is a nice static site generator that builds on top of Jekyll and has nice deployment instructions.
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#10I'd love to. What platform should I use? Requirements: * No Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal * Easy to configure and deploy * Internal comments subsystem preferable I was looking at rigging up Dokuwiki. It obviously has the ability to publish data/articles, it has plugins to give a discussions page, user/ACL support and it's pretty simple to deploy. Drawback is it's not designed by default with the "reverse chrono" orderi…
Why not use WordPress? It's simple to install, configure, and deploy. Works on any web host. Internal comments. Auto-updates to keep you running on the latest version if you want.
wordpress as default does not handle lots of traffic without crashing. You need to use cache plugins to make it work well with lots of visitors. Not a "solid" solution out of the box.