latest 20 messages by IQAndreas

+ [2013-10-19T08:08:33Z] IQAndreas xtriz: If you don't want to create all the code and layout for your blog from scratch, you could start with Octopress and go from there. http://octopress.org/
+ [2013-10-19T08:06:11Z] IQAndreas You can also use a custom domain if the default subdomain does not suit you.
+ [2013-10-19T08:05:50Z] IQAndreas xtriz: Then it should be perfectly fine. If you make the repository named "xtriz.github.io" (or whatever your GitHub username is) GitHub will set up a few nice features, such as automatically pointing the github pages of your repositories to "http://xtriz.github.com/my-repository"
+ [2013-10-19T08:01:53Z] IQAndreas But I'm not sure what GitHub's rules are on hosting commercial websites.
+ [2013-10-19T08:01:31Z] IQAndreas xtriz: I'm not sure what their requirements are. They say hosting is free for "open source projects", so if your personal blog is about programming, and you are alright with the source of the blog being publicly available, then they encourage it.
+ [2013-10-19T08:00:30Z] IQAndreas But since one of the founders of GitHub has close ties with Jekyll, GitHub provides another option: (3) Upload the Jekyll project to Github, and they will generate it for you on their servers (provided you don't use any plugins)
+ [2013-10-19T07:58:58Z] IQAndreas You can either (1) just write the HTML yourself, or (2) use Jekyll to generate that HTML, saving you a lot of work. Then you upload the result to GitHub pages.
+ [2013-10-19T07:57:52Z] IQAndreas GitHub provides free hosting for static websites.
+ [2013-10-19T07:57:35Z] IQAndreas Which is a lot better than writing all the HTML for the static site and having to copy and paste all the code that the same across the site.
+ [2013-10-19T07:56:55Z] IQAndreas You have your templates and your plugins, and it generates static websites.
+ [2013-10-19T07:56:33Z] IQAndreas Jekyll is basically just a really fancy "template engine"
+ [2013-10-19T07:48:35Z] IQAndreas I'm an Ubuntu user.
+ [2013-10-19T07:47:28Z] IQAndreas Both of them should be fairly up to date, I know I at least used one of them a few months ago.
+ [2013-10-19T07:46:57Z] IQAndreas http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rvm/
+ [2013-10-19T07:46:49Z] IQAndreas http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rbenv/
+ [2013-10-19T07:46:43Z] IQAndreas I'm honestly not experienced enough with Ruby to know the difference between the two, so you are going to have to ask around on that one.
+ [2013-10-19T07:44:23Z] IQAndreas xtriz: Gem requires Ruby, so make sure Ruby is installed first.
+ [2013-10-19T07:43:41Z] IQAndreas The version of Ruby available from apt often isn't the "right" version needed for certain libraries, and I just got a headache trying to get it right. Instead, use "RVM" or "rbenv".