Blogging and writing about JavaScript

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Blogging and writing about JavaScript MunichJS Patrick Mulder @mulpat September 2014

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blogging! is free

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prepare for! books

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But you are here for JavaScript, right?

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

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

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@nzgb

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@rauschma

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

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–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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Language

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“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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Style

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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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Blogging Engines

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Platforms

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Jekyll1) 1) Ruby and Grunt based

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cabin Node based but depends on compass

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$ 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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hexo.io fully Node

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

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Deployment! and Hosting

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Github Pages $ git push origin master

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$ divshot push [production]

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

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Build your own engine… … this is another talk

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spreading! the word

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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