About a year and half ago, I moved my blog from WordPress to Octopress. It was very fun in the early days. I enjoyed using ruby, markdown and the command line to blog. It felt like the right thing to do as a Software Engineer to be blogging about Tech using a blogging engine for geeks…or so I thought.
Here are my main reasons for switching back.
- As I primarily code against the .Net ecosystem, I use a Windows machine most of the time. Because I could not find a good way to make Octopress work on Windows, I often found myself writing my code on my windows box and moving it over to my Macbook pro or my Ubuntu VM just to blog.
- With WordPress I could blog from anywhere, anytime, even from my mobile phone. With Octopress, I can only blog from my Ubuntu VM or my Macbook Pro.
- Octopress is a do-it-yourself blog engine, which is awesome as it presents a lot more learning opportunities….when you got time for it (which I no longer have as much as I used to)
As a result, I haven’t blogged as much as I could have this past year. This is not to say that Octopress is not a good a Blogging Engine to use. I’ve had a tremendous amount of fun blogging geek-style. Unfortunately, I now have to use my time as efficiently as possible, and Octopress does not allow me to do that at the moment.
I now join the likes of Kevin Dangoor and Michael Rooney, who also moved back to WordPress after switching to Octopress.
Goodbye Octopress. It was fun while it lasted.
From Journeyman to Zen Master 