Entreprevelopment adventures

I created this blog specifically to jot down notes of interesting / useful / meaningful stuff I find during my adventures with development, which I hope are useful to others.

And to start with, here is a link to a post that really helped me out Octopress: Setting up a Blog and Contributing to an Existing One. It wasn’t really clear to me from Octopress instructions that I had to run rake generate and rake deploy; I was just trying to make the git commits and push by hand (and becoming really frustrated by it). So, just for my own reference:

 # do stuff in your blog, like rake new_post
    # then generate the blog
    rake generate
    # then save the source branch and push it to Github
    git add .
    git commit -m "whatever message"
    git push origin source
    # and now, this is where the magic happens! this takes care
    # of pushing everything automagically onto the master branch!
    rake deploy

(depending on your system, you might need to run bundle exec followed by the rake commands).

Oh, and also… to delete a post, delete it only from

blog-root/source/_posts/post-title

and then run the commands above again. The rake tasks from Octopress take care of everything.

This cool minimalistic theme is from zespia.tw, and it’s called Slash.

Ta-da!

So far I’m really enjoying Octopress – I chose it because I want to be able to do everything from the shell, and never leave my dev environment and my beloved ST2/emacs combination.