Why?

This blog exists purely a learning experience. See the source code here.

Get the gist?

As you may notice, the blog posts are actually github gists (http://gist.github.com/). It is based on gistblog (see also http://withouttheloop.com/).

Software

The software uses the following frameworks and libraries:

• Core
• JavaScript/Node.JS - http://nodejs.org/
• Express (NodeJS web framework) - http://expressjs.com/
• Jade (Template engine) - http://jade-lang.com/
• Twitter Bootstrap (styles, etc)- http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
• Azure (Hosting/Deployment) - http://azure.com/
• Github + gists (Blog posts storage) - https://gist.github.com
• Other
• Coffeescript (tests) - http://coffeescript.org/
• Mocha (test framework) - http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/
• Async (loading from github) - https://github.com/caolan/async/
• Nock (mock http requests) - https://github.com/flatiron/nock/
• Underscore (sort, filter, etc) - http://underscorejs.org/
• Github Flavored Markdown - https://github.com/github/github-flavored-markdown