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writing on Greg Burekhttps://www.gregburek.com/tags/writing/Recent content in writing on Greg BurekHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000Moving site to Middlemanhttps://www.gregburek.com/2014/07/06/moving-site-to-middleman/Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gregburek.com/2014/07/06/moving-site-to-middleman/<p>This is me attempting to resurrect my blog after several years of silence. This
has also given me a chance to redesign things and adopt another static site
generator.</p>
<p>Octopress served me well, but I felt like it was difficult to grasp the
fundamentals and hard to pick up after a while away. I went looking for new site
framework and found <a href="http://middlemanapp.com/">Middleman</a>. I liked that it was
written in Ruby and I really liked the tutorials I found for it.</p>
<p>In particular, Julie Pagano’s fantastic
<a href="http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/10/site-redesign-using-middleman/">tutorial</a>
was invaluable in getting me past a bunch of unexpected things.</p>
<p>The plugins I am using are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog">middleman-blog</a> for support of
the article format</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/neo/middleman-gh-pages">middleman-gh-pages</a> for an easy
GitHub pages integrated workflow</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog">middleman-syntax</a> for syntax
highlighting of code snippets</li>
</ul>
<p>Starting from a blank Gemfile, unfortunately, seemed to not give properly
rendered code syntax blocks.</p>
<p>An unmerged <a href="https://github.com/middleman/middleman-syntax/pull/42">PR</a> appears
to address the problem, but I found that using Julie Pagano’s
<a href="https://github.com/juliepagano/juliepagano.com/blob/master/Gemfile.lock">Gemfile.lock</a>
also worked very well. I am very grateful that it was available.</p>
<p>The rest of the work was about adapting my strange icon color scheme into
something that doesn’t repulse and offend. Mixed results, I would say.</p>
<p>Now that this is set up, I have high hopes to use this new system to write more
about technology and my experiences with it.</p>
<p>The code for this site now resides on <a href="https://github.com/gregburek/gregburek.com">GitHub</a></p>