Presentation this Thursday on Jekyll and the new hicapacity.org

[James Wang]

This Thursday: Presentation about the new hicapacity.org website by
@jsakuda. Come by if you want to learn about Jekyll!

Over the past 2 months, HICapacity.org has gone through a major
overhaul on the front-end and back-end. We want to take a moment to
expose our architecture for the site, examine our choices, and talk
about the future of the site.
Why Jekyll?

Take a look at the content on most sites. What actually warrants a
backend database? Typically things such as logins, remote private API
access, etc do. It turns out that, these services can sometimes be off-
loaded to a web service with the proper security measures. Most of the
time for a news-centric site, like ours, all we need is a static site
generator. Jekyll is perfect for the job. You write all your posts by
cloning a Git repository. You can save the server a lot of resources
by using flat files generated from Jekyll. If you need plugins like
Facebook, you can still add them to your site by calling their APIs
through client side Javascript.

Read about Jekyll here - https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
Presentation by Julie

Take time out of your day to come to Julie's presentation about Jekyll
on Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 7 PM at the makerspace.

[Austen Ito]

I'll be there!