Adding a blog entry to scala-lang is simple – we use Jekyll (see the README in the root of this repository for Jekyll setup instructions in case you don't have Jekyll installed.)

There are three:

• category: release for Scala release announcements
• category: highlights for issues of the Scala Highlights newsletter
• category: blog for everything else

• Create a markdown file in the /blog/_posts directory of this repository (or the /_posts/ directory for release announcements) named according to the convention: YYYY-MM-DD-name-for-your-article.md
• Add some YAML frontmatter. For example:

    ---
    layout: blog-detail
    category: blog
    by: Joe Schmoe
    title: My Uber Cool Scala Article
    ---

• Write your post in markdown following the front matter.
• Run Jekyll locally and double-check your article for formatting and correctness! To do so, simply run jekyll serve --watch from the root of the repository. Note that the --watch option enables incremental rebuilding, so each time you change a file, the site is regenerated and re-served. To visit your blog article, go to: localhost:4000/path/to/your/article
• Make a pull request!