Latest on this Blog ################### :title: Latest on this Blog :date: 2014-09-06 10:35 :category: Blog :tags: blogging :slug: latest-on-this-blog :author: Chris Ramsay :status: published :language: en :show_source: True I've been making a slow but steady stream of improvements to the blog this year which began with a migration from an ancient installation of Wordpress to the static `Pelican`_ HTML site generator. Many other blogs explain how this is achieved so I won't bore you with it here. Post migration I decided to pretty much ditch all my previous posts because many of them were related to programming and were rather out of date. Oh, and in my experience, re-reading stuff you wrote years ago is never good for the soul. When I first started using Pelican, I converted my old Wordpress HTML to `Markdown text formatting`_, and I loved the simplicity of Markdown very much. But then I started to hit some limitations with it, such as getting a real fight on my hands making syntax highlighting work properly without resorting to external JS libraries and so on. Luckily, having something of a Python background, I rekindled my passion for reStructuredText (`documentation available here`_) and set about a morning of converting the Markdown entries to reStructuredText. This would not have been achieved without the aid of a brilliant piece of software, written by Prof. John MacFarlane, `Pandoc`_ .. _`Pelican`: http://blog.getpelican.com/ .. _`Markdown text formatting`: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax .. _`documentation available here`: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html .. _`Pandoc`: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html