Another Attempt at Blogging with Jekyll

I have too much failed attempts at blogging from wordpress to tumblr, and countless others. They were great softwares and have great features but none of them fit the mold. I need something simple, something in that has less updates and less vulnerabilities. And yet something efficient and most of all free from those hosting fees.

Along came Jekyll, a ruby gem that generates static website. Transforming markdown files into posts and pages. No more database, no more updates, and it is blog-aware. And best of all free hosting, if you deploy it on github-pages.

I think 'Jekyll' is perfect for developers. You can use your favoritetext-editor to write post and pages, and git to deploy your latest changes. It also comes with a good syntax highlighter with Pygments or Rouge.

1 def print_msg(message)
2   puts "Hello, World!  #{message}"
3 end
4 
5 print_msg('How are you?') #calling the function here
6 #=> prints 'Hello, World! How are you?' to STDOUT

So, yeah. I'm excited about my new setup. If you have tips and tricks on Jekyll. Leave a comment below.