Thanks. At first sight gitit requires that I setup my own server. <div><div><br></div><div>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)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does one exist for gitit? </div><div><br></div><div>Also Gitit is an unfortunate name since "Git It" has become a saying apparently, so googling for it give me all the wrong hits ;-)</div><div>
<br></div><div>Bing guided me towards <a href="http://www.johnmacfarlane.net/">http://www.johnmacfarlane.net</a>, but I guess that site is just a showcase for the author?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Gwern Branwen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwern0@gmail.com">gwern0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Peter Verswyvelen<<a href="mailto:bugfact@gmail.com">bugfact@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm going start my very first blog, documenting my everyday struggle to<br>
> switch my old imperative mind to the lazy functional setting, with a focus<br>
> on FRP.<br>
> Although you can find a lot of articles that provide help to get started<br>
> with general blogging, it might be useful to pick a blog in which presenting<br>
> Haskell code is easy (e.g. like hpaste that does the syntax coloring for<br>
> you), and where users can give feedback, providing code, also with syntax<br>
> coloring preferably. It would also be nice to allow hyperlinking every<br>
> function in the code to the standard Haskell library docs or to the docs on<br>
> Hackage.<br>
> Googling for "how to start a Haskell blog" just revealed a lot of Haskell<br>
> blogs.<br>
> Could you share your experiences with me about starting a blog?<br>
> BTW: I'm on Windows.<br>
> Thanks a lot,<br>
> Peter Verswyvelen<br>
<br>
</div></div>Being a lazy person, I would just use Gitit. There are a lot of<br>
advantages to doing so.<br>
<br>
You get the highlighting-kate syntax-hilighting for your Haskell code<br>
(and your Scheme code and your...); you get a server; you get various<br>
plugins like interwiki links to all the Wikipedias and Wikias or<br>
graphviz image generation; you get RSS feeds for pages*, such as your<br>
Front Page so you can in effect have your Front Page be a blog just by<br>
writing articles and adding to the Front Page a link to them; you get<br>
sane markup (either Markup, Markdown, or literate Haskell), which<br>
*won't* mangle, spindle, and fold whatever you write**; you get a nice<br>
Git or Darcs repo of your writings which you can share or backup; etc.<br>
<br>
About the only disadvantages to this lightweight blogging approach are<br>
that the wiki might not look 'blog-like' unless you edit the CSS/HTML,<br>
and Gitit currently doesn't allow anonymous page creation or edits of<br>
the Discussion pages. (I'm fairly sure Gitit is supposed to work on<br>
Windows, also.)<br>
<br>
* HEAD only<br>
** sad to say, not something that can be assumed; more than once I've<br>
seen Haskell-related blog posts or comments get mangled by the<br>
blogging software<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">gwern<br>
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