Recently I migrated this blog site from Octopress to Pelican. Here is why and how.

Writing blogs is not a one-time thing. Maybe sometime after you posted a blog, you find a typo, or you get some feedback from your readers and want to further elaborate on some paragraph in your blog, and so on. So keep a revision history for each post is a good idea, not only for you, but also for your readers, to let them know that you're keep polishing your blogs.

This post describes the octopress-popular-posts for Octopress. Although there is one plugin that does the job, it used Google Page Rank to determine if a post is popular or not. I'd like to, however, use the page view of the post as metric.

It's always nice to display some blog stats, such as page view count, to give readers an sense how popular some site/posts are. Unfortunately, there is (or should I say 'was'?) no such plugin that does this job nicely for Octopress, so I decided to write one myself. And here comes the plugin called octopress-page-view.

rake generate can take quite a while, especially when you have many blog posts. Here are a few tips on how to speed up the generation process.

I used to blog on wordpress.com. After a year or so, I finally decided to abandoned it and switched to Octopress + Github Pages. Here are the reasons and how I migrated to Octopress. Maybe because I was using wordpress.com, and those who use a self-hosted wordpress have something different to say, the way I see it, wordpress, at least wordpress.com, sucks.