New Year, New Website
And here we are again, a new year, a new website. I have always been terrible about keeping my website up to date so this year I have tried to simplify things a bit. For starters I have ditched my old Django-powered website which, while fun to build, can be a bit annoying to maintain. I had to keep up with the code, the hosting, backups, and content.
Since I have been moving more and more of my personal code to GitHub, I figured that I should try out GitHub Pages and Jekyll for my website. After about 24 hours I can say that I’m pretty happy with GitHub Pages and the Jekyll website engine. The thing that I like the most is that all of the posts are version controlled on GitHub itself, no mucking around with a database… very nice.
Eventually I plan on building a feed aggregator which will combine my Twitter, GitHub, and other feeds into one convenient location. We’ll see if I can do this using nothing but JavaScript. Such is the price paid for hosting the site on GitHub pages which doesn’t provide much in the way of server side programming. I also wanted to give a shout out to HTML5 Boilerplate, a very cool foundation for starting out a HTML5 website (oh yeah, giving HTML5 a try here).
