Programmer friendly blogging software [closed]

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I'm looking for a blogging software which I would mostly use for personal notes about snippets of code/configurations or whatever I think I could need in the future.

Characteristics I'm looking for:

• minimialistic approach, no fancy widgets, just clear presentation of the contents
• absolutely no I-know-what-you-need-better-than-you stuff like wordpress, i.e. substitution of quote marks with the "cool" ones, "smart" insert of <br>'s and <p>'s -- what I write shall not be changed
• integration with Markdown, possibly even with the WMD editor

Thanks for any suggestions.

EDIT: sorry for not specifing platform, I need something web based working on linux (PHP o Perl)

EDIT2: thanks for the answers, I don't agree on this being an exact duplicate since I found no useful info on the other thread so I started my own question, which has interesting suggestions not found in the wordpress vs blogger discussion.

Answer 1

Another solution is MODx (note: this is a CMS that can do blogging), as it was designed to be more of a toolkit for web publishing rather than a full blown web application. Getting started with it may be a bit complicated, but it does things exactly the way you want it to.

Answer 2

May I suggest this instead: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

But it's not just a wiki! It has very powerful plugin capabilities, so it can also be used to build new tools. You have full control over how it looks and behaves. For example,TiddlyWiki is already being used as:

• A personal notebook
• A GTD ("Getting Things Done") productivity tool
• A collaboration tool
• For building websites (this site is a TiddlyWiki file!)
• For rapid prototyping
• ...and much more!

Answer 3

Wordpress, blogging software, with WP-Syntax plugin, and you are ready to go! Though there are plenty of other syntax highlighting plugins if the linked one is nothing for you!

I know you said no Wordpress, but trust me, Wordpress and a Syntax Highlighting plugin is really all you need.

If you like it more complex, Drupal would be my other choice. But you don't. Drupal is not a blogging software per se, but a content management systems, means it can be a blogging platform but it also can be so much more if you want it to.

Other than that only Windows Live Writer comes to mind.

As for your I-know-better-than-you-do stuff in Wordpress, it can be turned off. I know, because I did. I hate it too!

Answer 4

Windows Live Writer is not bad.

Here's a blog post about it from Scott Hanselman.

Answer 5

Assuming that you're talking about hosting your own and administering it yourself, two blog/wiki/cms platforms come to mind:

1. Xwiki
2. Typo3

Both are open source and very flexible for anything you want to do. Both have a learning curve that programmers can climb easily depending on their inclination but the "out-of-box" capability is very good.

xwiki is java-based. It can be plugged into an app server as a war, or you can download a version that is bundled with jetty. Typo3 is technically a CMS, but it is very flexible. I think it is perl-based.

I don't fully understand your requirements about editing of posts, however, I do know that xwiki allows users to edit posts either in WYSIWYG mode or directly in blog markup.