This is the first post I have written with the new ikiwiki backend, and I like it a lot. Some of you may have known that I was writing a git backended blog/wiki. Well I gave up. Not because it wasn't going well, or anything of the sort, it was merely a design choice. I decided that it would be better to create a blog/wiki generator. Dynamically serving up each page used more computation than just compiling and spitting out the pages once a week. So, I went the noble route and looked online at what other people have done with the wiki generator idea.
Ikiwiki was a complete and working solution that all ready could use git as a backend for the wiki. Why fight it? So I migrated my posts (which I was all ready storing in markdown) to ikiwiki (which uses markdown). I haven't solved the problem of comments... I haven't ported them out of the old database yet, and I'm not sure if I care. There were plenty of decent comments, but none that really changed anything in the article. Though, I might place them on the old posts? I've also thought about incorporating disqus into the blog, but I haven't figured out how to do it in a way that I like yet. I enjoy the idea of outsourcing my comments, but I dislike the idea of having to manually place the javascript into each blog page so it only appears on them, and THEN figuring out a way to get the old comments into disqus.
We'll see. But I figure I should get this all online. If you have any comments or fixes, feel free to email me at j@codemac.net.