Hello "JEKYLL"

posted: 09 Apr 2012

So I’ve been trying to make it a habbit of documenting any progress/breakthrough that I make during my journey as a developer. I’ve been happily using tumblr to do this. Then I ran into jekyll, and well I love to tinker with new things so…

Enter stage “JEKYLL” ;)

pros

• no database
• store files locally or git repo (or any cvs of choice)
• different markdown options
• very flexible
• different deployment options
• liquid is a nice templating language
• scripts are provided to help migrate other blogs over to jekyll

cons

• if you’re not a dev it may be a bit of a learning curve
• you have to host your site
• deployment can be tedious if not automated
• considerable amount of reformating must be done when migration script are used

I will be migrating all my previous posts over before writing any new ones. Stay tuned!

1 # ruby
2 
3 def hello_world(msg)
4 	"#{msg} is awesome!"
5 end
6 
7 puts hello_world('jekyll') #=> 'jekyll is awesome!'