[Derferman]

Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there.

I personally have become a huge fan of statically-generated blogs (using Jekyll[1] for Ruby or Hyde[2] for Python) as they integrate great with version control and require little maintenance. Another benefit is speed, as nginx serves static content with ease.

[1]:https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

[2]:https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde

[dm3]

Also, github integration with jekyll is great. You just push your post to the repository and voila!