Yet another blogging system - Jekyll
10 May 2014Rather than actually add anything interesting or useful, yet again the temptation has arisen to change blogging systems. The motivation this time came from the constant requirement to keep Drupal (or any fancy system for that matter) up to date so that it doesn’t present a security risk to the server. Even though I haven’t actually been adding any content, I’ve kept having to update the site, which has become increasingly annoying.
Jekyll is different in that it transforms plain text files into a static website. I’ve been looking for something similar for many years but have now taken the plunge. So far it has taken a few hours to get up to learning curve. Since I haven’t been paying much attention to web development stuff a lot of new things seem to have come on the scene - e.g. SASS.
Anyway - this time maybe the ease of editing in Vim will reduce the number of excuses to produce some actual content.
Meanwhile, a glance back at some of the systems that I’ve used over the years:
- 2014 - Jekyll
- 2006 - Drupal
- I was a bit late to the Drupal party but had been watching it for a while. It has since become massive - and the number of modules and themes is almost overwhelming.
- 2004 - Wordpress - still used on Dublorunner
- 2004 - Xoops
- Had some useful forum features that I used for the SoPS website
- 2004 - Geeklog
- Never really liked this - but convinced Adam to put his site on there - whilst it lasted
- 2003 - Nucleus
- Don’t remember much about this
- 2002 - Gallery
- Great gallery site - had some growing pains when it moved from version 1 to 2 - never really got over it.
- 2000 - Hand crafted HTML
- Always seemed very painful - this was back when everything was done with tables and there was no such thing as CSS.
Amazingly they are all still going! Admittedly some don’t appear to have changed much. I wonder what will be next…