Year of the Code Monkey
Because Jonah Bishop Said So
Born Geek has been redesigned from the ground up. The site is now powered by Movable Type, which makes my life way easier. Be sure to check it out and please let me know if you run into any problems. Lots more goodies are coming soon: Googlebar Lite 4.6, Paper Plus 10.0, a new C++ article, and more.
January 2, 2007 at 2:34 am
So is your blog powered by Movable Type as well?
January 2, 2007 at 8:00 am
No, this blog uses WordPress as its engine of choice. I prefer the WordPress look and feel overall, but Movable Type had the ability to generate static HTML pages, which greatly appealed to me.
January 2, 2007 at 10:19 am
Well I prefer MT over WP of it’s simplicity to create themes. I think it’s much easier to create new looks for websites powered by MT because it has no php code mixed in.
January 2, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I can see where the MT idea would be appealing since no code gets embedded (though one might argue that the MT tags are indeed snippets of code). With WordPress, however, I can edit one file (footer.php for example) and every page updates automatically; I don’t have to do a rebuild of my site.
The trade off for this convenience is that every page must be built dynamically. Born Geek receives enough traffic to make that a concern for me, so I went the MT route. Serving up static HTML is way more efficient than building pages on every request.