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My new Jekyll site

by David Pcolar

27 Oct 2013

Creating a new Jekyll site

To make things a little more interesting, I upgraded my distro to Salamander this morning:

pcolar@aaladm81:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 13.10
Release:    13.10
Codename:   saucy

Checking the Jekyll install

pcolar@aaladm81:~$ sudo apt-get check jekyll
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

Create my new site

pcolar@aaladm81:~$ jekyll new Jekyll_site
New jekyll site installed in /home/pcolar/Jekyll_site.
pcolar@aaladm81:~$ cd Jekyll_site/
pcolar@aaladm81:~/Jekyll_site$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/pcolar/Jekyll_site/.git/
pcolar@aaladm81:~/Jekyll_site$ git commit -a -m "New Jekyll empty site"
[master (root-commit) c955e25] New Jekyll empty site
 8 files changed, 314 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 _config.yml
 create mode 100644 _layouts/default.html
 create mode 100644 _layouts/post.html
 create mode 100644 _posts/2013-10-27-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown
 create mode 100755 css/main.css
 create mode 100644 css/syntax.css
 create mode 100644 index.html

pcolar@aaladm81:~/Jekyll_site$ 

Rename the default master branch to gh-pages

pcolar@aaladm81:~/Jekyll_site$ git branch -m master gh-pages

Push to the new repo

pcolar@aaladm81:~/Jekyll_site$ git push origin gh-pages
Username for 'https://github.com': Pcolar
Password for 'https://Pcolar@github.com': 
Counting objects: 13, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
Writing objects: 100% (13/13), 3.42 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 13 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://github.com/Pcolar/Jekyll_site
 * [new branch]      gh-pages -> gh-pages

Here is a screen shot of my home page:

Dave is an IT professional with the University Library. My focus is infrastructure related project management and research on scalable storage environments. Find David Pcolar on Twitter, Github, and on the web.
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