Jekyll and Github Blog

Jekyll and Github Blog

There are many excellent solutions for blogging: posterous, blogger, wp ... You can choose and you need to choose if you want to keep your blog, of course. Now I will talk about a relatively new geek solution in blogging - this is Jekyll blog based on Github.
Jekyll is a simple static site generator, ala blog. It contains templates for creating site logic. Thanks to Github Pages - the site can be hosted on Github. It's simple. Create a repository "Site Name" .github.com and publish the code of your site there on Jekyll. Commit + Push and Github automatically updates your site.

Why Jekyll + Github:

• Jekyll provides pygments syntax highlighting, pretty good.
• Your blog is stored in the git repository, which means you have versioned storage.
• Jekyll compiles the site once and then only static html files are used.
• To add changes or write a new post is to commit on Github.
• Popularity - see how many watchers and forks are from Jekyll github.com/mojombo/jekyll
• Documentation and examples - working sites and blogs in open source.
• Convenient markup language. Jekyll supports textile and markdown. Of course html.
• Reliable hosting.
• Blog comments can be implemented using Disqus services ala.

Instructions for use:

• Installing Jekyll from the Github Wiki docks
• Installing Jekyll in Ubuntu
• Jekyll Sites
• Wiki

Sample Jekyll blog with source codes: source code / the site itself.

Go through the source:

_includes / (ready-made pieces of html to insert)
_layouts / (templates)
_posts / (articles)

Templates work with Liquid .
Names for posts require strict formatting ala year – month – day – name.format
Format: textile or markdown.
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The post should include a header designating the pattern:

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 layout: post
 title: "Post title"
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Advantages:

1) Github.
2) Works very very quickly -> 95 out of 100 points profiling through Google PageSpeed.
3) You can easily move to Heroku. (For example)
4) You can focus on the content and not worry about the implementation and platform.

Disadvantages:

1) It's not so easy to add: a gallery of photos, comments, tags, search, and so on.
2) To hide the source of your site you need a paid account, and this is just over $ 7. (corrected)
3) There is no database.

Conclusion

I like Jekyll and GitHub as hosting. This allows me to focus on what I write, and not on technical issues.
+ on jekyll + github: my blog .