On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Peter Verswyvelen
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 presenting 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 -- gwern