we just finished one meetup last night. enjoyed it so much. try my best to promote it to more coders in Hong Kong ~
to get some more web presence for Codeaholics HK meetup, I created a Google Sites with the mobile template:
https://sites.google.com/site/codeaholicshk/
I was sharing architecture of a RU05 program and performance tuning we did on with Mongo.
Codeaholics Feb Meetup
The slides i showed was actually a web page moving like a powerpoint slides.
The source code to generate the slides is available in github.
here I draft out high level steps giving you some rough ideas of the work required to create such webpage. you can find all the detail steps in jekyll, jekyll_and_hyde and rack-jekyll github page.
install required gems and create project:
gem install jekyll
gem install jekyll_and_hyde
gem install rack-jekyll
jh new codeaholics_hk_feb_2011
cd codeaholics_hk_feb_2011
To prepare deployment for the future, generate the static pages into another folder instead of default _site directory. i used "pages" folder in my case:
in the .gems file, include rack-jekyll
follow the github pages to setup _config.yml and config.ru
You can start creating your powerpoint, and read it at localhost:4000
jekyll --server pages
jh generate frontpage
... // generate your static pages
... // keep your jekyll server running until you finish. i explain why below
When you want to deploy to heroku:
git init
git add .
git commit -m ""
heroku create codeaholics_hk_feb_2011
git push heroku master
One issue i saw when generating post was that. I edited my posts markdown files after I stopped the jekyll server, and later when i started it again, no more static pages generated automatically. I guess the service could no longer recognizes which files was edited. I could not resolve this problem. So, i have to create another project and copy over my markdown files to continue.