SILShack Spring 2014

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So I can add you to the blog as an editor.

Posting to Github

This exercise will have you doing the following:

• Open your first issues
• Modify the class blog with your info
• Write an initial blog post
• Close your first issues

Note: As we’ll learn, git is an open source command line version control system. Github.com is the fastest growing git repository on the internet. This distinction isn’t always immediately apparent.

Issues

• Go to the project homepage. Click the Issues tab on the right.
• Open an issue "[Your name] not included in config.yml"
• Open an issue "[Your name] needs a first post"

Jekyll Orientation

Jekyll is a program that reads templates and generates a website. It might seem complicated at first but you'll get the hang of it quickly. Here are the basic pieces:

• _config.yml: Where sitewide variables live
• _posts/: Where posts live
• _layouts/: HTML for Jekyll to instert our content into
• *.markdown: Pages for the site

You can read more here: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/

Adding your Bio & Info to the site:

• Fork the repo
• Change your details in _config.yml
• Describe your changes with a commit message
• Open a Pull Request from your new branch to the silshack master.
• Pair up, review the code, and tag me (@eah13) in a comment that it looks good. I'll merge it in (eventually you'll be doing this yourselves)

Writing an initial blog post

• Fork the repo
• Make the file _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md
• add a YAML header (with your _config name as author)
• Write a post, using some features of Github Flavored Markdown
• Describe your changes in one or more commits
• Open a pull request from your new branch to the silshack gh-pages branch
• Pair up, review the code, and tag me in a comment when it's ready to go.

When you're done you should have:

• A post that displays correctly at http://[yourname].github.io/spring2014/
• Two issues opened by you at https://github.com/silshack/spring2014/issues
• An open pull request by you at https://github.com/silshack/spring2014/pulls

If you need help, use your resources! Google, our community, and your classmates are all available, as am I.