Sooo...
I am thinking of reviving my work blog (hosted on Blogger) again, perhaps only for my own enjoyment, perhaps as a notebook for some topics that might of wider interest than what I post on Evernote (excellent tool, please check it out).
I have spent a few minutes looking at what tools I should use to generate a blog entry. Here is what I expect:
* Since I code a fair bit, I require the tool to handle and format code snippets correctly and nicely.
* It should also be easy to use, i.e. not require all the html syntactic sugar that's usually necessary. Markdown - see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown - fits that second requirement, i.e. my blog tool of choice should handle Markdown or something similar. Edgewall TRAC - which if this were my group (har, soon!) I would make mandatory for my minions - also has some really nice markdown-ish capabilities called WikiRestructuredText, I'd settle for that too.
* I want to be able to quickly and simple include images.
* Ditto web snippets.
* I want to be able to immediately see my post and be able to update it on the fly.
* Overall, I want to wowed with how easy the tool makes it to write a fine looking rich blog that lets me focus on content creation.
First up is ScribeFire which I used succesfully before - read on in the next post. And comment me back if you happen to know the ultimate blogging tool for Blogger.
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