Chris Wray

With my site running on GitHub Pages, I am using Jekyll to build out my site structure. With its variable and templating support, customizing the site has been easy. Here are some helpful tips I’ve noted along the way, which may be of use.

In looking to setup my new site and blog, I had a number of specific things I wanted. Easy publishing. Markdown support. Easy template modification. Custom domain. Oh, and ideally free. I ended up deciding to use GitHub Pages, and leverage git for publishing and GitHub for hosting. Here is a quick summary of how to stand things up.

In XAML, the FlipView control is really handy for content rendering. Out of the box, you get support for virtualization. For example, when binding a collection of 100 items to a FlipView, the control won’t build out 100 pages of controls. Instead, only a “window” will be rendered (typically the current item, along with the previous and next item). While this is great for performance and optimization when binding to a large collection, issues can arise.