Add an API to Your Jekyll Blog

Written on October 25, 2015

Without adding any non-Github pages approved plugins, build a RESTfull api for your blog by adding a json endpoint.

Reflecting on Elixir and Phoenix

Written on October 9, 2015

I reflect on what I have seen at ElixirConf 2015, what does this mean for Drupal, and Why use Elixir or Phoenix instead of Drupal or Jekyll.

I like Jekyll, but is it necessary?

Written on June 15, 2015

Jekyll solved my blog problem: it is fast to set up, free to host, and I actually write content on it instead of endlessly rebuilding the platform. But now I am wondering if I even need Jekyll, or if I can replace it with Gulp and cut out the Ruby dependency entirely.

One of the first “Content Management Systems” I ever wrote was a perl script that took flat text files and wrapped templates around them and gave me html. I cobbled this thing together and thought, huh, it worked. At the time everything was changing and I hardly ever wrote content. So a script that did this wasn’t extremely useful to me. It was more of an academic experience – especially because, at the time, I wasn’t a professional web developer.

Drupal or Wordpress? Why not Jekyll.

Written on January 27, 2015

Are you fed up with the offerings of Drupal, Wordpress, and other big CMSs? Then maybe a return to roots is in order. Let's look at Jekyll