Jekyll camp was an event that was held on 6 september 2013 in Ghent at the KaHo Sint Lieven campus.
It was a small barcamp style afternoon with about 18 attendees.
We had 6 talks:
Session | Speaker | Length | Level |
---|---|---|---|
Getting started with Jekyll | Johan Ronsse | 45” | Beginner |
Jekyll: a case study | Jelle Desrasmaults | 10” | Beginner/Intermediate |
A Grunt/Jekyll workflow | Gregory van Looy | 15” | Intermediate |
Prose.io | Pieter de Clerq | 5” | Beginner/Intermediate |
Javascript unit testing | Jochen Vandendriessche | 15” | Intermediate |
Porting Jekyll to Javascript | Kristof van Landschoot | 30” | Advanced |
Speaker: Johan Ronsse
Slides: Intro to Jekyll
Session contents:
Basics: layouts and includes
Intro to Liquid
Blogging with Jekyll
The Jekyll site config object
Managing links and permalinks
Markdown parsers
Adding open graph metadata to your site
Jekyll plugins - my experience so far e.g. cycle random, file exists
Providing test websites for clients with baseurl
Speaker: Jelle Desrasmaults
Case study on how a Jekyll site was built.
Speaker: Gregory Van Looy
Slides: Some kind of workflow
The power of automating your workflow using Jekyll combined with grunt. Whether you’re a one man team or part of a large team, keep doing what you love to do instead of wasting time doing repetitive tasks.
Why?
Intro to Grunt
Kickass Grunt plugins that will make your life easy
Speaker: Pieter de Clerq
Pieter told us about Prose.io, which you could use as a CMS solution for Jekyll based websites.
Speaker: Jochen Vandenddriesche
Jochen talked about about how he handles Javascript unit testing.
Speaker: Kristof van Landschoot
Why would you port Jekyll to javascript? The what and the how, plus a demo.
Jekyll camp is over but you can still: