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What Works
A state of the current art demo session during IndieWebCampUK 2012.
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Welcome to the Demos of What Works Today
IndieWebCampUK 2012 2012-253 The Engine Room
Aral:
- had wordpress, got frustrated, ditched it for a static home page
- fear of launching unstyled
- struggles with restyling
- building just what you need, when hitting a painpoint.
Tantek:
- demonstrated @Falcon
- BBEdit text entry - Falcon used to post to site before broadcast.
- steps:
- 1. edit static file and add new post using HTML
- 2. terminal command line scp to server
- 3. open tantek.com/falcon posting UI, verify post (re-edit, re-scp, reload if necessary)
- 4. click "Tweet" button, ping PuSH hub, posts to Twitter
Barnaby:
- demonstrated waterpigs.co.uk posting UI
Andy Hume:
- was using WordPress since it was first called WordPress and Matt was blogging every new WordPress blog
- switched to using Jekyl
- wrapped it in some shell scripts
Josh:
- using WordPress
- showed WP PHP files
- added HTML5 History API Support to it.
Aral went into more details:
- each post can have its own style sheet
Tom Morris:
- uses Tumblr with domain redirection for blog.tommorris.org
- and bitbucket for code.tommorris.org
- crazy RDF setup - http://code.tommorris.org/blog-annotations/src
- now using Ruby (Sinatra) delegation system on Heroku - it's free!
- allows for testing (Rack Test)
Jeremy Keith:
- CMS should just manage content
- help you get content *into* a database
- templates, getting content out of the database are display/presentational - not CMS pieces
- rich text editors
- just has shortcut buttons for markdown of: bold, italic, hyperlink, list item
- separate templating layer on the site
- Jeremy uses his system on:
- personal site ( http://adactio.com )
- DOM Scripting ( http://domscripting.com/ )
- principia gastronomica ( http://principiagastronomica.com/ )
- band site for Salter Cane ( http://saltercane.com )
Aaron Parecki:
- simple HTML form to create a new update, with options for syndicating to twitter & app.net
- screenshot: http://aaronparecki.com/2012/253/note/3
- Live preview of content that will be syndicated, auto-shortening text and preserving hashtags
- HTML form writes a static markdown file and commits to the git repository
- Browser extension rewrites the "reply" link on twitter.com, opening this HTML form on my domain: https://vimeo.com/48097093
More demos here:
- 2012/UK/Demos
- based on what people built/improved today at IndieWebCampUK!