Static is the New Dynamic - Jekyll is the New Ruby Killer App

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Hello,

   FYI: The slides from the Vienna.rb talk titled "Static is the New
Dynamic - Jekyll, Octopress, GitHub Pages n Friends" [1] (use T to
toggle, space or cursor to browse) or read the all-in-page version.
[2]

Topics covered include:
  - Dynamic Site Generators
  - Static Site Generators
  - Why Static?
  - Static Site Generator - Folder Structure Example
  - Static Site Generators - The Biggies
  - Build Your Own Static Site Generator in Ruby in 5 Minutes
  - Static is the New Dynamic - Jekyll is the New Ruby Killer App
  - Jekyll Getting Started
  - Jekyll - Beyond the Basics - Collections, Data
  - Dynamic Examples - Videos, Comments, n More
  - Jekyll Goodies - HTML Proofer, Prose.io, GitHub.js, Jekyll Planet
Gem, WordPress Jekyll Export Plugin
  - GitHub Pages
  - Octopress 3.0 Upcoming

   Cheers.

[1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io/demos/static.html
[2] https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/static.md

PS: Bonus: Here's the five minute roll-your-own static site generator:

require 'find'
require 'kramdown'

# 1) make an out directory

SITE_PATH = './_site'
Dir.mkdir( SITE_PATH ) unless File.exist?( SITE_PATH )

# 2) add a markdown converter helper method

def markdown( text )
  Kramdown::Document.new( text ).to_html
end

# 3) loop over files and generate hypertext (.html) from markdown (.md)

Find.find('.') do |path|
  if File.extname(path) == '.md' # e.g. ./index.md => .md
    basename = File.basename(path, '.md') # e.g. ./index.md => index

    File.open( "#{SITE_PATH}/#{basename}.html", 'w') do |file|
      file.write markdown( File.read( path ) )
    end
  end
end