My site has 966 posts and 70 categories. By default, Octopress re-generates the entire site - every single post, all the category pages, the archive pages On my Acer Aspire One (Intel Atom 1.66GHz) netbook, the regeneration takes around 10 minutes. There are a couple of options that can significantly reduce this time and make the write/preview/edit iterative process more tolerable. Firstly, you can use ‘rake isolate’ to move all other posts into a ‘stash’ directory and simply process the newly created post. ...

‘Is that Evra at left back ?’ ‘Yes. Ferguson said he would play his strongest side in Europe after last season. Why are you so surprised ?’ ‘Oh nothing. I just can’t believe it’s not Buttner’.

The last ever migration of this blog is now complete. This blog is now powered by Octopress and is a statically generated site hosted on Amazon S3. All posts have been migrated from HTML to Markdown and every single permalink (all 954 of them) have been painstakingly checked, rationalised and consolidated. To achieve this, I simply generated a sitemap of the Drupal site and compared this with a sitemap for a test site using Octopress after the data migration. ...

Octopress is great Uses Google to provide site search Archives builtin Tag support Draft posts Local preview Markdown markup Google+, Disqus, Google Analytics support Incremental deployment Deployment to Amazon S3 Fast as lightning Wish I’d bitten the bullet earlier.

This is my first post in Octopress. The text uses Markdown which is marvellous. My favourite blogging platforms are: Octopress Habari Drupal WordPress The BBC is a popular Web site. End of message.