As technology progresses then taking a few minutes to deploy your app can seem like a long time, but when you consider everything Heroku is doing during that time then its quite amazing

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Emacs is a tool that just keeps on giving and Org-mode is a fantantastic way to create text based content and manage it effectively. As Org-mode is just a text format then it can be easily converted by Emacs into other formats (markdown, pdf, html, etc). I’ll show you how to create other formats from Org-mode, so you can confidently write everything in Org-mode and generate any format you need.

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For each Octopress project you have created (ie. for each blog / website you created with Octopress) you need to pull some code from Github remote (octopress master) and run a few rake tasks.

Before you start with an update, check you Octopress projects files have been added to the Git repository or Stashed out of the way - as Octopress will try and overwrite them (although as its using git it will fail and warn you about a merge conflict).

git pull octopress master     # Get the latest Octopress
bundle install                # Keep gems updated
rake update_source            # update the template's source
rake update_style             # update the template's style

http://octopress.org/docs/updating/

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Octopress enables the creation of great looking blog post using simple markdown text. This gives you a no-fuss way of writing your blogs without getting distracted. Here I will cover how to add formatting to you text and embedding code and other useful media into your blog posts.

In my previous blog on Octopress I covered the blogging workflow and the handful of rake commands that help you create and deploy your blog posts consistently.

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Octopress themes are stored in the the root folder of your project in a folder called .themes. If you installed one of the custom themes for Octopress [link], the .themes folder is where the instructions tell you to clone the theme git repository.

Themes can also be installed by passing a parameter to the rake install command. the default theme being “classic”.

Using the .theme folder for your themes helps ensure that your customisations do not get over-written by Octopress updates .

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There are a great many developer and tech conferences to got to and the numbers are increasing. Some of these conferences are free or free if you speak or volunteer, some are relativley cheap and some you may be able to persuade your company to pay for. But why should you even consider going to a conference in the first place?

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What is Twitter bootstrap?

Bootstrap is an HTML5 toolkit from Twitter to help kickstart webapps and web content sites. It includes a base Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and HTML for forms, buttons, typography, tables, grids, navigation and much more.

Bootstrap stylesheet provides an easy-to-implement 960 grid for efficient layout, as well as expertly crafted styles for typography, navigation, tables, forms, buttons, and more. To take care of everyday JavaScript touches, Bootstrap provides a well built set of jQuery plugins for drop-down menus, tabs, modal boxes, tooltips, alert messages, and more.

This helps you create a standards compliant, responsive, user-friendly, professionally built HTML5 website, right out of the box.

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Octopress provides an easy way to create blog posts by proving a task that will automatically place and name your markdown file. This helps manage your blog posts in a sensible structure and avoids conflicts.

To create a new post, use the following command inside your Octopress project folder:

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rake new_post["Title of your blog post"]

This will create a markdown file including frontmatter to apply the blog post style. The task creates the file under the _source folder and included the date at the start of the filename.

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This is the first blog post of many in my adventures in learning how to publish a blog using Octopress.

As a developer I want a lightweight tool to create and easily publish content interesting to other developers in the community. Although I can write HTML, CSS and JavaScript for webapps, I dont want to be slowed down writing these things when I am doing creative writing.

Using Octopress, which is a blogging framework on top of Jekyll, I can write my content using Markdown. As Markdown is just simple text with a few characters and indents used for formating, I can focus on the writing and make it as appealing as I can. I dont get distracted by the visual layout of the content and a standard design for the blog is consistently applied.

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In previous articles I showed how to setup Emacs Org-reveal & Reveal.js to generate your own presentations from Emacs Org-mode files. This time I’ll show you how to publish those presentations on Github Pages as I have done for my own presentations.

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