Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help starting a Haskell blog

22 Aug 2009

      Thanks. At first sight gitit requires that I setup my own server.
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)

Does one exist for gitit?

Also Gitit is an unfortunate name since "Git It" has become a saying
apparently, so googling for it give me all the wrong hits ;-)

Bing guided me towards http://www.johnmacfarlane.net, but I guess that site
is just a showcase for the author?

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Gwern Branwen  wrote:
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I'm going start my very first blog, documenting my everyday struggle to
switch my old imperative mind to the lazy functional setting, with a
focus
on FRP.
Although you can find a lot of articles that provide help to get started
with general blogging, it might be useful to pick a blog in which
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Peter Verswyvelen
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presenting
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Haskell code is easy (e.g. like hpaste that does the syntax coloring for
you), and where users can give feedback, providing code, also with syntax
coloring preferably. It would also be nice to allow hyperlinking every
function in the code to the standard Haskell library docs or to the docs
on
Hackage.
Googling for "how to start a Haskell blog" just revealed a lot of Haskell
blogs.
Could you share your experiences with me about starting a blog?
BTW: I'm on Windows.
Thanks a lot,
Peter Verswyvelen
Being a lazy person, I would just use Gitit. There are a lot of
advantages to doing so.
You get the highlighting-kate syntax-hilighting for your Haskell code
(and your Scheme code and your...); you get a server; you get various
plugins like interwiki links to all the Wikipedias and Wikias or
graphviz image generation; you get RSS feeds for pages*, such as your
Front Page so you can in effect have your Front Page be a blog just by
writing articles and adding to the Front Page a link to them; you get
sane markup (either Markup, Markdown, or literate Haskell), which
*won't* mangle, spindle, and fold whatever you write**; you get a nice
Git or Darcs repo of your writings which you can share or backup; etc.
About the only disadvantages to this lightweight blogging approach are
that the wiki might not look 'blog-like' unless you edit the CSS/HTML,
and Gitit currently doesn't allow anonymous page creation or edits of
the Discussion pages. (I'm fairly sure Gitit is supposed to work on
Windows, also.)
* HEAD only
** sad to say, not something that can be assumed; more than once I've
seen Haskell-related blog posts or comments get mangled by the
blogging software
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gwern