I teach 109

I'm Luke, I teach CMPT-109 at Montclair State University and this is my blog.


The purpose and goals of this blog


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I wanted to briefly talk about the goals and the purpose of this blog. I'm not using this space as a platform to post personal rants or random musings. There are other places where I can use that. I want this blog to be relevant to my teaching work and course material.

Blog Comments


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Jekyll does not provide any comment functionality. This makes sense, because there would be no way to capture and pre-process user comments at compile time. Does this mean that Jekyll blogs cannot have comment threads? No, of course not. You just need to use an external service to handle this sort of thing.

Blogging on MSUWEB


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The MSUWEB service available to both students and faculty is very useful, but it has one major flaw - it is completely static. There is no server side scripting or database support, which makes it a less than ideal platform for personal blogging. Fortunately, not all blogging platforms require scripting or databases.
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