How to setup a Geo-spatial Programming portfolio Blog that scales better than the traditional blogs
Blogging is one of the most important things that any aspiring GIS programmer or Geo-data scientist should be doing on a regular basis. It can be a fantastic way to demonstrate once skills and learn topics in more depth.
There are various software for creating your Geo-Data Science blog. The software that helps you create and publish your blog is called a Content Management System (CMS), Some are free and some cost money.
One common thing with CMS is that, they heavily depend on server to deliver contents. That is a request has to be sent to a database and responses are sent in return each time a use perform an action on the blog. This can be time consuming and over killing for a static geo-data content blog.
As a Geospatial programmer, if you really want to setup a GIS scripting oriented blog that scales very well. Then look beyond server centric CMS blog engines such as Blogger, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal etc. Instead choose a "Static Website Generators" that gives room for increasing both speed and uptime, and managing static sites with version control systems like Git means the process of creating and updating sites is highly efficient.
Static site generators allow a user to create HTML files by writing in a markup language and coding template files. A static website generator combines a markup language, such as Markdown or reStructuredText, with a templating engine such as Jinja, to produce HTML files.
Open-Source Static Site Generators
There are several of them, a comprehensive list is available at:
www.staticgen.com
Since this blog is about python Programming, I will list those static site generators written in Python programming language below. Later on, I will cover how to create a blog using Python, how to create posts using Jupyter notebook, and how to deploy the blog live using Github Pages.
List of Python powered static site generators
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Pelican - www.blog.getpelican.com/
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MkDocs - www.mkdocs.org/
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Cactus - www.github.com/koenbok/Cactus/
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Lektor - www.getlektor.com/
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Hyde - www.hyde.github.io/
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Nikola - www.getnikola.com
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Sphinx - www.sphinx-doc.org/
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Frozen-Flask - www.pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
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Blogofile - www.blogofile.com
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Acrylamid - www.posativ.org/acrylamid/
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Tinkerer - www.tinkerer.me
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Tags - www.tags.brace.io/
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staticjinja - www.staticjinja.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Urubu - www.urubu.jandecaluwe.com
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Grow - www.grow.io/
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Tarbell - www.tarbell.io
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wok - www.wok.mythmon.com/
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Statik - www.getstatik.com/
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QPage - www.qpage.ir
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drupan - www.github.com/fallenhitokiri/drupan
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Prosopopee - www.github.com/Psycojoker/prosopopee
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PyKwiki - www.pykwiki.nullism.com
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PieCrust2 - www.bolt80.com/piecrust
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Poole - www.bitbucket.org/obensonne/poole/
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Pagegen - www.pagegen.phnd.net
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django-distill - www.github.com/mgrp/django-distill
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Halwa - www.github.com/mhlakhani/halwa
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Blended - www.jmroper.com/blended/
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Blo - www.github.com/savuir/blo
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YASBE - www.github.com/underr/yasbe
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Bang - www.github.com/squdle/Bang
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Rocadocs - www.rocadocs.com
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BootDown - www.project.geekweaver.com/
Creating a Geo-Data Science portfolio blog will improved your career more than anything else and land you your dream job while doing the work you love.
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