JUberblog is a command line based blog engine which publishes static HTML files from given Markdown files. The simple idea behind it is: Only do the necessary things. So the blog does not care about storage or versioning of the content data. This aspect is leaved to other tools which can do this better (such as Git for example).
First you need to install and configure your blog. After that you can start. For a brief overview how to use the JUberblog command line tool see the usage. For a deeper look under the hood see the architecture site.
Long time ago (roundabout seven years) I blogged with Wordpress and programmed with PHP. View years ago I realized that PHP is a piece of crap. In consequence of that Wordpress is also a piece of crap. Also I realized that I do not need the most features of Wordpress. What I want is an easy way to write my posts, version them and publish them as HTML.
As a programmer I’m used to a version control system for my source code. So why not using it for my blog posts too? Also I’m used to write Markdown files (mostly the documentation of my software is written in Markdown). So why put my blog texts into tables and rows of an SQL database only for putting them together on each page request. So I decided to make my blog as a repository of Markdown files from which I generate static HTML files periodically (with crontab e.g.).
My first approach was Uberblog: A command line Ruby scripts collection to create and publish the static files of my blog. JUberblog is the next step: Divide the code from the content (Uberblog combines both in one repository). I’ve chosen Java as platform because I’ve earn my money with Java programming so it is a good coding practice for me. Also I can provide a self contained binary with all dependencies (You only need a Java VM). With Ruby I’ve had several problems to set up all dependencies for Uberblog on a new machine. I’ve also had lot of problems setting up other Ruby tools from scratch. Sadly there is a lot of API version hassle in the Ruby world.
