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This week Gabe and Erik geek out about blogging platforms with Bob VanderClay. They discuss Blogging-as-a-Service (BaaS) vs. self-hosted blogging, then explore the advantages and disadvantages of static, dynamic, and hybrid blogging engines. Along the way, they touch upon a number of related topics including templating languages, commenting, writing tools, hosting providers, and backups.

Sponsor We’d like to thank Macminicolo for sponsoring this episode of Generational.

Show notes * Switch * high90 * Frontpage * Dreamweaver * Flash * Takitapart * ColdFusion * node.js * COBOL * Amazon S3 * Tumblr * Hosted Wordpress * Self-Hosted Wordpress * April 2013 Wordpress Attack * Squarespace * Blogger * Movable Type * Apache Software Foundation * Pelican * Jekyll * Octopress * Ruhoh * Dropbox * site44 * MAMP * Statamic * Jinja * Mustache * Handlebars * Hogan * Eco * Jade * Docpad * Sass * Compass * LESS * Organizing Docpad * Ace * Prose * Github * Disqus * Akismet * And Now it’s All This (Dr. Drang) * Asymco * App.net * Tent * Sublime Text * Poster * Textastic * Diet Coda * Hazel * AppFog * Heroku * Hosting Statamic on AppFog * Nodejitsu * MediaWiki * Sean Korzdorfer’s Open Notebook * VoodooPad * Amazon EC2 * WebFaction * Pingdom * Squarespace Blog - Hurricane Sandy Update * TextExpander * YAML * FTP On The Go * iSSH * Prompt * MarsEdit * Jonathan Poritsky * TextMate 2 * Drupal * Zendesk * Checkvist * Mozilla Bespin * SubEthaEdit

Things We Like * LiveReload * CodeKit * Fluid * Flowers for Algernon * Cloud9 IDE