On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Peter Verswyvelen<bugf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm going start my very first blog, documenting my everyday struggle to > switch my old imperative mind to the lazy functional setting, with a focus > on FRP. > Although you can find a lot of articles that provide help to get started > with general blogging, it might be useful to pick a blog in which presenting > Haskell code is easy (e.g. like hpaste that does the syntax coloring for > you), and where users can give feedback, providing code, also with syntax > coloring preferably. It would also be nice to allow hyperlinking every > function in the code to the standard Haskell library docs or to the docs on > Hackage. > Googling for "how to start a Haskell blog" just revealed a lot of Haskell > blogs. > Could you share your experiences with me about starting a blog? > BTW: I'm on Windows. > Thanks a lot, > Peter Verswyvelen
Being a lazy person, I would just use Gitit. There are a lot of advantages to doing so. You get the highlighting-kate syntax-hilighting for your Haskell code (and your Scheme code and your...); you get a server; you get various plugins like interwiki links to all the Wikipedias and Wikias or graphviz image generation; you get RSS feeds for pages*, such as your Front Page so you can in effect have your Front Page be a blog just by writing articles and adding to the Front Page a link to them; you get sane markup (either Markup, Markdown, or literate Haskell), which *won't* mangle, spindle, and fold whatever you write**; you get a nice Git or Darcs repo of your writings which you can share or backup; etc. About the only disadvantages to this lightweight blogging approach are that the wiki might not look 'blog-like' unless you edit the CSS/HTML, and Gitit currently doesn't allow anonymous page creation or edits of the Discussion pages. (I'm fairly sure Gitit is supposed to work on Windows, also.) * HEAD only ** sad to say, not something that can be assumed; more than once I've seen Haskell-related blog posts or comments get mangled by the blogging software -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
