Pelican: Clean & Simple Page Generation

2014/05/17 Lightning Talk @ PyCON APAC 2014, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

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1. Pelican RSChiang @ PyCON APAC 2014 Clean & Simple Page Generation
2. Hi, I’m RSChiang • Legal science major at NTU • SITCON / COSCUP staff • Python advocate • You can reach me at http://poren.tw
3. Outline • What’s Pelican? • Why not Octopress? • How does it work • Conclusion
4. Pelican • Static page generator • Anagram for “calepin” (notebook) • Support Theming / RSS / Import / IPython / Plugins … • http://docs.getpelican.com
5. so would you ask. “Why not Jekyll or Octopress?”
7. It just doesn’t feel right to mix all of these in…
8. Installing • [sudo] pip install pelican • pip install Markdown for .md support • Use pelican command to tranform any text file • Interactive ones: pelican-quickstart
10. pelicanconf.py • Just like Django’s settings.py • Available as template variables • Specify plugins by path or Python import • Control your own naming & pagination patterns!
12. Commands • Available as Fabric fabfile.py or Makefile • make html (or fab build) • Preview your site using make serve • Publish via make github • make xxx_upload for SSH / FTP / S3 / rsync …
14. Conclusion • Pelican generates page in a clean, Django-like way • Granular control on naming / folder structure 
 with almost no restriction • Simple build & deployment to multiple targets • It’s written in Python. 
 Good reason to switch from Octopress now
15. Thanks! RSChiang @ PyCON APAC 2014