Posts tagged 'markdown'

  • Kramdown and who-needs-wp

    I’ve just upgraded who-needs-wp to use Kramdown instead of RDiscount. I started using Kramdown for 2 reasons; It’s written entirely in Ruby; and it adds some useful extensions to Markdown.

  • Who needs Wordpress?

    The majority of web sites are consumed. Visitors will stumble upon the site, read a few pages (if you’re lucky) and then disappear. Normally for every visitor to the site each webpage is generated dynamically. Each visitor has their own version of the web page for that particular moment of time. Is this really necessary? How often does the content on the web site you are visiting change?

  • Re-writing Viki's Makefile as a Rakefile

    I’m not a fan of Makefiles. :-( I don’t find find them particularly easy to write or maintain - and they are often too tightly integrated to the programming environment or the developer. I’ve spent far too many hours trying to resolve dependencies on Makefiles. To be fair however there are other tools out there, but the scars still show. :-)

  • Viki - A wiki built on Git

    The last few days I’ve been helping contributing code to Frank Dean’s wiki software - Viki. Frank has been maintaining a TWiki which me and a few of his friends have been contributing our technical notes. Whenever we find something which may be of interest to others we posted it on the Wiki.