I was pretty frustrated with how slowly this site was running, so I recently followed the herd and moved over to Jekyll. The transition was pretty smooth, but there were two issues I encountered. Redirecting the Index I wanted the homepage for chrismeserole.com to forward to my /about/ page. In wordpress, this is pretty trivial – I think it was just a check box in the settings tab. But for Jekyll it’s not so simple. »
Install Octopress I followed this tutorial. »
Early in 2013 I switched over to using Jekyll for this site and a couple others. Here’s the workflow I use to edit one of the sites. First, I open terminal or Powershell and start a new branch: cd ~Dropbox/Sites/mysite git checkout -b draft Then I edit relevant files and commit the changes: git commit -a -m 'Edited such-and-such file' Or I’ll add a file and commit the change: git add path/to/file git commit -m 'Added file' To preview the changes, I’ll rebuild the site: jekyll --server And then head to localhost:4000 in Chrome. »
Last Updated: Feb 16, 2013. Just installed Ubuntu 12.10 for the first time, on my Asus UL30VT from an external DVD. The following is a checklist I’ve been putting together for how to set up a Linux install. ####Get Spotify Working First, open /etc/apt/sources.list. This will open a dialog box asking for a repository. Type this: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free Then, open terminal and run: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install spotify-client That should do it. »
These are just notes of my experience with git and github. If you know of better/best practices, by all means let me know. Initially I had trouble running fetch or push to my github repository. Every time I ran fetch, for instance, I got: fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly The reason I was getting this – I think – is that I ran git remote add origin git://github.com/username/myrepo whereas if you visited http://github.com/username/myrepo, the setting was for https rather than git. »