Back, this time with jekyll and github
Recently I’ve come across jekyll, a small ruby application that generates static html content from liquid templates and posts wrote in textile. Because the source of a jekyll blog is all flat files everything can be easily stored with a versioning tool in my case git (through the wonderful github). Its a brilliant idea and works rather well, I’ve decided to give it a go for my blog at sixones.com until I find the time to create my own blog engine with merb.
I decided to host my blog content in a private repo on github and use gitpages to generate the jekyll site every time I push my content and serve the html. Because im using git to store my content, I can keep everything backed up separately and run a backup copy of my generated site somewhere else just incase.