Blogging and writing about JavaScript

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1. Blogging and writing about JavaScript MunichJS Patrick Mulder @mulpat September

   2014

2. blogging! is free

3. prepare for! books

4. But you are here for JavaScript, right?

5. Blogs help, inspire, connect [ you with the javascript community

   ] http://thinkingonthinking.com/new-kid-on-the-blog/

6. http://thinkingonthinking.com/organizing-a-backbone-application/ An example

7. @nzgb

8. @rauschma

9. Donald Knuth wrote “The Art of Computer Programming” (Vol. 1-4)

10. –Donald Knuth (inventor of TeX1) “My current programs generally describe

    what worked and what didn’t work, and they proceed both bottom-up and top-down” 1) maybe the first blogging engine From LonelyScholar Press

11. Language

12. “The author uses a lot of buzzwords that either are

    not explained thoroughly or are never used again” - some other blogger

13. Style

14. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming- books-that-meant-most-to-me “If you consider programming to be a subset

    of writing, then you would also do well to read Elements of Style and On Writing Well. “ - David Heinemeier Hansson

15. Blogging Engines

16. Platforms

17. Jekyll1) 1) Ruby and Grunt based

18. cabin Node based but depends on compass

19. $ cabin new blog ! . ├── Gruntfile.js ├── dist

    ├── node_modules ├── package.json ├── posts │ ├── candyTheme.md │ ├── markdownTest.md │ └── samplePost.md └── src ├── images ├── layouts ├── pages ├── scripts └── styles http://www.cabinjs.com/

20. hexo.io fully Node

21. roots.cx - nice project configuration - clean directory structure -

    some opinions: jade, stylus, coffee

22. Deployment! and Hosting

23. Github Pages $ git push origin master

24. $ divshot push [production]

25. Amazon S3 $ s3cmd sync // but access control can

    be painful

26. Build your own engine… … this is another talk

27. spreading! the word

28. try to have .rss feed $ head _site/atom.xml! <?xml version="1.0"

    encoding="utf-8"?>! <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">! ! <title>thinking_on thinking</title>! <link href="http://mulderp.github.com/atom.xml" rel="self"/>! <link href="http://mulderp.github.com/"/>! <updated>2014-06-16T21:05:46+02:00</updated>! <id>http://mulderp.github.com</id>! <author>! <name>Patrick Mulder</name>

29. EchoJS

30. javascript reddit

31. news.ycombinator.com

32. JavaScript newsletter

33. Tracking visitors

34. blogging is free blogging is easy blogging may help you

    and others

35. Thank you!

36. Munich Arduino meetup