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! 10 ways people are (mis)using GitHub Pages for fun and profit @benbalter

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! GitHub Pages is three things

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User pages

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Project pages

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Organization pages

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! Not Geocities for our generation

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! Static is the new PHP

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! Every website produces 
 the same three things HTML Javascript CSS

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! CMSs generate bespoke pages

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! The only way to scale a dynamic site is to add more complexity

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! Treat content with the same respect that developers give to code

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! Collaborative content

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! Open source content

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! Publishing with GitHub Pages

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! 1. Push content to GitHub

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! 2. Content is published

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! the `gh-pages` branch

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! Template, meet content

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! How (not) to use GitHub Pages

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1. Collaborative content

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! https://github.com/ {{ site.github.repository_nwo }}/ edit/gh-pages/{{ page.path }}

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2. Continuous Integration

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The GitHub blog

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! Pedantic robots > pedantic humans

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3. Collections

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! Not everything in the world 
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4. Data

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! Most restful APIs have predictable queries

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! GET /puppies/rover.json

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! _data YAML JSON CSV

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! _data/puppies.csv

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! site.data.puppies

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! for puppy in site.data.puppies

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5. Collaborative policymaking

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6. Branded profiles

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Startups twitter.github.io yelp.github.io

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netflix.github.io adobe.github.io

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Tech Giants sap.github.io ibm.github.io microsoft.github.io

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! {% for repository in site.github.public_repositories %} * [{{ repository.name }}]({{ repository.html_url }}) {% endfor %}

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7. Private sites

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8. Documentation

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! 140 contributors 
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! https://help.github.com/ search/search.json

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9. Automated publishing

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! `git add && git commit && git push` GitHub CRUD API benbalter/change_agent PUT api.github.com/repos/users/benbalter/contents/some-file.md agent.set “foo”, “bar”

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10. Client-side applications

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Getting started pages.github.com help.github.com/pages github.com/showcases/open-source-organizations

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! 10 ways people are (mis)using GitHub Pages for fun and profit @benbalter