Re: [O] Introducing Octopress Exporter
Aurélien Aptel mailto:aurelien.ap...@gmail.com Aug 2, 2012 05:45 I've never heard of octopress, interesting. The only thing I don't like is how comments are handled. Since it's all static you relying on an external service like Disqus. I'm not so fond of losing control over user contribution like that. Besides, the actual service (disqus) is pretty terrible anyway. I'm always pissed when the comment I sent gets processed in weird ways yet doesn't do verbatim/code blocks. Org Mode and Octopress are both about owning your own data. They are a perfect fit. You can get email notifications of your comments or RSS (see http://www.accmanpro.com/2011/01/27/subscribe-to-all-comments-using-disqus-in-7-easy-steps/) feeds of all your comments. A simple mail filter and you own your comments. You can even save them to individual, HTML files. I'm wondering what blogging system you use and if you really own your comments as much as you think. I would argue that individual HTML files on my hard drive is a greater degree of ownership than who-knows-what in some database I think that the decision about the use of external service for comments (or anything else) is a very important question. Assuming that you can own your data, an absolute requirement for me, I think that combining a static blog with external, dynamic services is the perfect solution. I've discussed this at http://www.neilsmithline.com/blog/2012/07/22/blurring-static-and-dynamic-blogs/. My __static__ Octopress blog is hosted by Github, displays dynamic recent tweets care of Twitter, recent Github activity via Github, has a per-article Buzz section thanks to SocialMention, and even automatically tweets whenever I add a new post via Feedburner and Gmail filters. I should add that my blog is 100% free with the exception of the computer I compose the posts on. For me, static content combined with dynamic interaction is the best solution I've found and I've used many blogging services or self-hosted blogs. Octopress is actually my second static blogging system. I used Nanoblogger before (I highly don't recommend it). I imported my posts from Nanoblogger to Octopress with relative really ease because they were both plain-text static blogs. I discuss it at http://www.neilsmithline.com/blog/2012/05/14/new-blog-tech/. Importing posts from other blogging systems that squirreled everything into a DB seemed to painful to me. Neil PS: I saw a mention of comment spam. I think that Disqus does a pretty good job of managing that. It also helps that my blog is not an attractive target as it probably has no more than two or three viewers.
Re: [O] Introducing Octopress Exporter
PS: By coincidence I just posted an article about Org Mode in my Octopress blog :-D It is the second of at least three postings on my time management system. The Org Mode posting is at http://www.neilsmithline.com/blog/2012/08/05/time-tracking-part-2/ The posting that outlines the entire time management system is http://www.neilsmithline.com/blog/2012/08/04/time-tracking/ If you want a sneak peek at some of the next posting, you can look at the files in https://github.com/Neil-Smithline/time-tracking-experiments/tree/gh-pages/assets They include: - Android screen shots of the Time Recording Pro app: The customer and job fields are extracted from an Org agenda by some elisp I wrote, exported into TRP format, and then imported into TRP. - Gcal screen shots showing detailed recording of my activities. This is a builtin feature of TRP - Org files that are produced by Memacs. They show data that has been harvested from Gcal and imported back into Org. I have more discussion about the project at https://github.com/Neil-Smithline/time-tracking-experiments. IMO, the coolest part is that I get all this functionality for the small price of 300 lines of elisp plus some scripting to wire things together.
Re: [O] Introducing Octopress Exporter
Hi Tom, Tom Alexander tomalexan...@paphus.com writes: I recently started using Octopress since its a great platform for programmers to blog. Since the posts are written in HTML, it was easy to use Org-Mode but once I got to code blocks I noticed that there was no highlighting. I decided to modify the HTML exporter so that code blocks were exported in the format described at http://octopress.org/docs/plugins/codeblock/ . My new exporter is located on github at https://github.com/craftkiller/orgmode-octopress and I welcome anyone to help improve it (for example, right now the body-only tag seems to fail since a table of contents gets exported). Thanks for this -- I don't use Octopress, but I found a mention of it in Worg here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html Did you check http://jaderholm.com/blog/blogging-with-org-mode-and-octopress ? Anyway, I added a note about your exporter in the Worg page above. Thanks, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Introducing Octopress Exporter
Aurélien Aptel aurelien.ap...@gmail.com writes: Since it's all static you relying on an external service like Disqus. I'm not so fond of losing control over user contribution like that. Besides, the actual service (disqus) is pretty terrible anyway. I'm always pissed when the comment I sent gets processed in weird ways yet doesn't do verbatim/code blocks. If the person making the post is paying himself for hosting his website and if the hosting provider charges a price for dynamic pages (cgi/php) then the person could be unwilling to shoulder additional charges. This is particularly so if the person has no commercial interest but only plain colloboration interest. Comments and spam are a pain. Just look at how WikEmacs is getting spammed everday. --
