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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.