[aklug] Re: Static Site generators

I was just looking in to these. I would probably have settled on hyde or
cactus personally.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:22 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy <
dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com> wrote:

> * Bruce Hill <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com> [2013-05-10 14:14 -0500]:
> > My needs are simple, but not desperate. There is nothing
> > point-and-click that we have used, nor probably will use in the
> > future.
> >
> > The whole fascination with flash and java in websites just increases
> > the attack vector, and frankly, for a little presence on the world
> > wide web that we want, HTML5 and CSS written in ViM will be enough.
> >
> > I'm grateful for the replies from this list.
>
> I don't know if you've looked into static site generators, but that may
> be an option which will allow templating similar to the dynamic CMS
> solutions, while only presenting static HTML/CSS and (should you choose)
> some javascript to the world.
>
> In example, http://caterva.org (my note taking device on my server
> playground) is generated by hakyll (http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/).
>
> An interesting article on ruby offerings is at
> http://www.mickgardner.com/2012/12/an-introduction-to-static-site.html.
>
> And a mini-review of the different generators is at
> https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators.
>
> I use vim to edit markdown formatted articles, then type `bin/site build
> && bin site/deploy`, which generates any new content, and deploys the
> changed portions of the site via ssh-encapsulated rsync.
>
> Regards,
> --
> dave [ please don't CC me ]
>

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Received on Fri May 10 22:43:07 2013