Why Octopress?

Here I am, trying to write a blog again. This time I hope to be more consistent than last time, and I'm also trying to write in English (sorry for any spelling errors), so this is a big challenge for me.

Ok, and... why Octopress? My answer is 'why not?'. I've used WordPress for several years, both for personal projects and for work, and I really like it and PHP, but it was time to try other things, and I decided to start to play with Ruby, so let's say that this is a mix of all these things.

I would like to list some of the things that made me choose Octopress:

• My blog died. Really not, but I've gone almost two years without updating it, so I started to think about a change.
• I want to practice and improve my English, so I decided to create a new blog, mainly in English.
• I like markdown, it's easy to read and edit, it's multi-platform, and there are several apps to work with it (I use Mou, because it's simple and free) and plenty of documentation (Daring Fireball, where Markdown was born).
• It's a good reason to play with Ruby, even if I only edit some plugins, I'll be improving my Ruby skills.
• Octopress comes from Jekyll, so it has many plugins that make every typical blogging task easy and a big community.
• Finally... It's cool, and I feel like a hacker! Did you know that I can write this post on my iPhone in Markdown, share it via Dropbox and deploy it to GitHub easily? Furthermore, you can make a pull-request to improve/complete/fix any post. Kevin Mitnick would dream of this!

I hope to write several posts about how to install and configure Octopress, so stay tuned if you're interested.