Geek Night Coimbatore

An open forum for geeks to connect, discuss & learn latest ideas, technologies and trends in software development

Quick Start

From the GitHub page, navigate to content folder and create/edit a yyyy-mm.html file. See content/example.html for possible parameters.

Development

We're using nanoc for static site generation. Jekyll/Octopress are hard-coded for blogging, while Nanoc is much simpler, doesn't take any assumptions and allows to build whatever type of content (not just blogs).

• Make sure you have RVM installed
• Clone this repo
• Run bundle install
• Run nanoc to compile the website
• Run nanoc view to start a server and browse to localhost:3000

For ease, there is a Guardfile. You can run bundle exec guard, it will keep watching for changes and re-compile the site whenever any file is changed.

Deployment

Commit changes to master dir (including /docs dir) and push

Folder Structure

• assets - contains all assets
• assets/app.sass - contains the main stylesheet
• assets/img/speakers - contains speaker images
• content - content for each geek night
• layouts - layouts for default and archive versions
• Rules - routing rules
• docs - folder containing the generated site

Front-End Development

• Pure HTML/CSS/Javascript website. No JQuery.
• Used HTML5 Boilerplate to generate the skeleton.
• Used colourlovers.com for the color swatches.
• Using SASS and Foundation for all the Styling.
• Icon fonts were generated and downloaded from Fontello. Only icons from the Modern Pictogram set were used for consistency.