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
   

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2. Hi, I’m RSChiang
   • Legal science major at NTU
   • SITCON / COSCUP staff
   • Python advocate
   • You can reach me at http://poren.tw
   

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3. Outline
   • What’s Pelican?
   • Why not Octopress?
   • How does it work
   • Conclusion
   

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4. Pelican
   • Static page generator
   • Anagram for “calepin” (notebook)
   • Support Theming / RSS / Import / IPython / Plugins …
   • http://docs.getpelican.com
   

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5. so would you ask.
   “Why not Jekyll or Octopress?”
   

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7. It just doesn’t feel right to mix all of these in…
   

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8. Installing
   • [sudo] pip install pelican
   • pip install Markdown for .md support
   • Use pelican command to tranform any text file
   • Interactive ones: pelican-quickstart
   

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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!
    

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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 …
    

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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
    

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15. Thanks!
    RSChiang @ PyCON APAC 2014
    

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