Thanks. At first sight gitit requires that I setup my own server. Although this has advantages and I did that in the past, I prefer to use a public server (actually my internet provider's license forbids hosting a server)
Does one exist for gitit? Also Gitit is an unfortunate name since "Git It" has become a saying apparently, so googling for it give me all the wrong hits ;-) Bing guided me towards http://www.johnmacfarlane.net, but I guess that site is just a showcase for the author? On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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