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
   

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2. blogging!
   is free
   

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3. prepare for!
   books
   

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4. But you are here for JavaScript,
   right?
   

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5. Blogs help,
   inspire, connect
   [ you with the
   javascript community ]
   http://thinkingonthinking.com/new-kid-on-the-blog/
   

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

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7. @nzgb
   

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8. @rauschma
   

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

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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
    

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11. Language
    

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12. “The author uses a lot of
    buzzwords that either are not
    explained thoroughly or are
    never used again”
    - some other blogger
    

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13. Style
    

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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
    

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15. Blogging Engines
    

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16. Platforms
    

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17. Jekyll1)
    1) Ruby and Grunt based
    

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18. cabin
    Node based but depends on compass
    

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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/
    

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20. hexo.io
    fully Node
    

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21. roots.cx
    - nice project configuration
    - clean directory structure
    - some opinions: jade, stylus, coffee
    

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22. Deployment!
    and Hosting
    

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23. Github Pages
    $ git push origin master
    

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24. $ divshot push [production]
    

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

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

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27. spreading!
    the word
    

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28. try to have .rss feed
    $ head _site/atom.xml!
    !
    !
    !
    thinking_on thinking!
    !
    !
    2014-06-16T21:05:46+02:00!
    http://mulderp.github.com!
    !
    Patrick Mulder
    

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29. EchoJS
    

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30. javascript reddit
    

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31. news.ycombinator.com
    

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32. JavaScript newsletter
    

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33. Tracking visitors
    

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

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35. Thank you!
    

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36. Munich Arduino meetup
    

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