
Creating a GitHub Pages blog
Steps for successfully setting up a Jekyll blog on Windows hosted by GitHub Pages. Context In my new role one of the goals is to communicate more about what we do and how we do it. I’ve written web articles and a couple of books in the past but these days the primary communication and sharing vehicle seems to be the technical blog. Setup Download Ruby and the Ruby DevKit I’m running Windows 8.1 64-bit, so I needed to download a 64-bit Ruby distribution. I downloaded the prebuilt Ruby 2.2.1 for x64 from RubyInstaller for Windows ...