First post
04 Dec 2009
I am finally setting up hoka.ro as my personal blog as an aggregator of my online activity.
Deciding what to use to power this site was not an easy task. I wanted it to be easy to maintain, lightweight and fun.
This is the list of solutions I considered:
- Wordpress - first thing that comes to mind when thinking about blogging.
- RadiantCMS - Ruby on Rails based CMS I have used to power websites for clients and some of my own.
- Adva-cms - Newcomer to the CMS world, based on Ruby on Rails.
- Jekyll - Static site generator written in Ruby, built and used by the folks at GitHub.
- StaticMatic - Another static site generator written in Ruby.
Eventually I decided on Jekyll, for various reasons:
- I wanted a technology that was close to what I am currently working with: Ruby and Rails, HAML, SASS
- I hate upgrading Wordpress every time a new version comes out and not updating it is an open invitation for hackers.
- RadiantCMS is not really a blogging platform, although you could force it to behave as a blog by installing various extensions.
- Adva-cms is not really ready for production.
- StaticMatic is more geared towards prototyping and does not have built-in support for blog-like behavior.
Anyway, here it is.