Octopress provides an easy way to create blog posts by proving a task that will automatically place and name your markdown file. This helps manage your blog posts in a sensible structure and avoids conflicts.

To create a new post, use the following command inside your Octopress project folder:

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rake new_post["Title of your blog post"]

This will create a markdown file including frontmatter to apply the blog post style. The task creates the file under the _source folder and included the date at the start of the filename.

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This is the first blog post of many in my adventures in learning how to publish a blog using Octopress.

As a developer I want a lightweight tool to create and easily publish content interesting to other developers in the community. Although I can write HTML, CSS and JavaScript for webapps, I dont want to be slowed down writing these things when I am doing creative writing.

Using Octopress, which is a blogging framework on top of Jekyll, I can write my content using Markdown. As Markdown is just simple text with a few characters and indents used for formating, I can focus on the writing and make it as appealing as I can. I dont get distracted by the visual layout of the content and a standard design for the blog is consistently applied.

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