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Geek Night Kampala

Development

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).

To start developing,

  • Clone this repository
  • Forget about whatever present in the root folder
  • Worry only about the generator folder
  • cd generator and do bundle install. You'll need RVM + Ruby 2.0
  • Make changes (see below folder structure). Mostly you'll be dealing with generator/content
  • 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.

Folders of interest

  • generator - this is the main source code, rest are all generated source code that can be ignored
  • generator/assets - contains all assets
  • generator/assets/app.sass - contains the main stylesheet
  • generator/assets/img/speakers - contains speaker images
  • generator/content - content for each geek night
  • generator/layouts - layouts for default and archive versions
  • generator/Rules - routing rules

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.