I can't see any reason to use it for any type of blog. Setting up ghost on your server and getting used to the UI (yes, it's as simple as it can be but it's still new) sounds more to deal with than pushing markdown files to your Github account.
Web apps can be used from any device - your home machine, your phone, your tablet, your friend's machine, a computer in an internet cafe halfway around the world. Pushing markdown files up to your github account... well, okay, I dunno, maybe you can figure out a way to do it in all of those cases if you're the kind of person who thinks that's the simplest thing to do, but most people are not.
If you have A LOT of posts and pages it can take minutes to generate your blog, then push it to your server. Ghost is pretty much instant. Write in the browser, publish in the browser.
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For a developer blog, what would be the advantage of Ghost over a static site generator?
I can't see any reason to use it for any type of blog. Setting up ghost on your server and getting used to the UI (yes, it's as simple as it can be but it's still new) sounds more to deal with than pushing markdown files to your Github account.
Web apps can be used from any device - your home machine, your phone, your tablet, your friend's machine, a computer in an internet cafe halfway around the world. Pushing markdown files up to your github account... well, okay, I dunno, maybe you can figure out a way to do it in all of those cases if you're the kind of person who thinks that's the simplest thing to do, but most people are not.
If you have A LOT of posts and pages it can take minutes to generate your blog, then push it to your server. Ghost is pretty much instant. Write in the browser, publish in the browser.
I don't have to spend 1 second figuring out how to convert layouts and templates and blah blah blah. I just want to write content.