Jekyll

This is the second Jekyll theme I’ve tried, SO Simple Theme and so far it’s working for me. I probably should also consider Octopress.

Rakefile

I’m also using a Rakefile from gummesson.

A quick note about the rake solution I’m using, I didn’t get it working with ZSH, I have to drop into BASH. So far an inspection of the source has not revealed to me the issue but for now it’s not a high priority. This works:

bash
rake post["New Blog: First Post"]

Serving the blog locally

To use the automatic sitemap generator and other features, setting the _config.yml file’s url key is important and probably just the right thing to do in general.

This makes testing out the rendering on my laptop require a second config file where the url is set to 127.0.0.1:4000 or leaving it blank. I followed SO advice linked here

Why Jekyll

I chose to use Jekyll for a few reasons

• Learn more about Web standards and models
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Javascript
• Learn some Ruby
• Code snippets
• Free hosting on Github

Code Snippet Test

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import numpy as np
from numba import jit

@jit
def iter_mean(data):
    """
    calculate a mean using iterative method.
    `data` is an array like object.
    """

    mu = np.float64(mu)

    for i in range(len(data)):
       mu += 1.0 / (i + 1) * (mu - data[i])

    return mu