New Year's Resolution (2014)
Wish you all a very happy new year 2014!
I had good fun being at MG road, Bangalore at mid night 00:00 with @karthi_govind and Kadiyala Aditya.
Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hujiie/4233009698
Fine lets come to the topic, as usual I did list down few of the habits and skills i would like to cultivate this year. After deep thoughts put in, I decided to start writing my personal blog this year.
Mind voice: Okay man cool! but what’s new?
Me: How could host a blog without paying to web server?
Mind voice: Come on man! you proclaim as the so called open source “solutions consultant”, solve this now!
Me: I had four options to choose Wordpress.com, Tumblr, Blogger or Github.
Meanwhile I also recollected @ArnDvd published his blog post in Github using Jekyll.
Finally decided to go with Octopress as its a blogging framework for hackers and could be deployed on Github Pages for free.
Note: Github Pull request welcome!
Oct 26, 2014: Moved my blog to blogger as i was feeling lazy to keep the github repo in local and write articles. Meanwhile felt it would help in SEO much better.
Me: How could host a blog without paying to web server?
Mind voice: Come on man! you proclaim as the so called open source “solutions consultant”, solve this now!
Me: I had four options to choose Wordpress.com, Tumblr, Blogger or Github.
- Wordpress : Nope! I did not like the way wordpress.com force display ads on our blog post when its a free package.
- Tumblr: Nope again! Felt awesome for personal blogging but still was not happy as i would end up on a Yahoo product.
- Blogger: Nope please! I do not want it to happen as Google Reader (My favorite RSS reader).
- Github: Yeah cool! Having prior experience in hosting my website using Github Pages, felt okay let me give a try.
Mind voice: Hey hold on, its on Ruby man! Ha ha you never wrote a “hello world” other than LAMP :DSome time back Vaibhav Rajput said on a facebook comment there exist a blogging framework for Github Pages called OctoPress
Me: So what! let me give a try. I have @kjaikeerthi who is an expert in RoR. He is just a dial away.
Meanwhile I also recollected @ArnDvd published his blog post in Github using Jekyll.
Finally decided to go with Octopress as its a blogging framework for hackers and could be deployed on Github Pages for free.
Mind voice: I don’t know why you are writing so technical when you have Tinywall.info and you said this is your personal blog.Basically for five reasons
Me: Oh yeah! let me not delete the above just go ahead writing why I choose blogging as new year resolution?
- Writing personal dairy are out dated; so practice personal blogging
- Improve my writing skills
- Open up, Express and exchange
- Add new technology (Ruby) to my skill set
- Test drive on SEO and SMO
- Increase page ranking for my website
Oct 26, 2014: Moved my blog to blogger as i was feeling lazy to keep the github repo in local and write articles. Meanwhile felt it would help in SEO much better.
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