Blogging and writing about JavaScript

A talk on the background of my blog and my book, as well a bit of 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