recap post

Author: shiftbot

_posts/2012-02-06-pretzel-review.md

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+layout: post
+permalink: /pretzel-review.html
+date: 2012-02-06 23:59
+title: "Pretzel: Recap"
+author: "@aeoth, @shiftkey and @tobin"
+comments: true
+---
+
+Things were a bit quiet in the chatroom with [@tobin](http://twitter.com/tobin) taking a well-deserved holiday, but we've made a lot of progress on Pretzel - our site generation tool using .NET.
+
+## Current Features
+
+How far did we get this week?
+
+You can setup a new website using these three steps.
+
+![](/img/pretzel-console.png) 
+
+This provides the demo site we've configured to help get people started experimenting - including images, styles and a sample post.
+
+![](/img/pretzel-demosite.png) 
+
+You can then edit the files in the folder and see the site regenerate
+
+![](/img/pretzel-console-2.png) 
+
+![](/img/pretzel-edit.png) 
+
+If you want to understand more of how this tool works, have a read of the [Jekyll wiki](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki) - this will help understand the concepts that Jekyll uses to differentiate between pages and posts, and how to configure your sites - this should help answer any initial questions users have about getting started with your own websites. 
+
+Some other features on top of the site generation underway:
+
+ * Wordpress Importing has begun - we'll update the documentation as soon as that is officially ready
+ * LESS compilation and JS minification within the 'bake' step.
+ * Razor template support - this is not as far along as our Liquid support, but is an excellent experiment with plugging in other templating engines.
+ 
+## More Features
+
+As we get time, these features are also planned:
+
+ * Liquid extensions - including a decent set of extensions for users to integrate into their themes
+ * Refining the default project site to be a bit more featureful
+ * The ideas around mixing static and dynamic content (one big idea was to leverage AppHarbor to support this) didn't get off the ground.
+
+##  -  Weekly Fun stats
+
+There were 13 contributors this week - some new faces and some familiar ones.
+
+The [punch card graph](https://github.com/Code52/pretzel/graphs/punch_card) from GitHub shows how busy we were across the week.
+
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+
+
+## What's Next?
+
+The post for the next idea will be up shortly - we've been discussing in the chatroom how to tackle this idea, so stay tuned.

_posts/2012-02-07-metro-dot-css.md

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+layout: post
+permalink: /pretzel.html
+date: 2012-01-31 08:00
+title: "Pretzel"
+author: "@aeoth, @shiftkey and @tobin"
+comments: true
+---
+
+
+After an epic week doing game development (which for many of us was new territory), we've picked a project which revisits one of languages we use everywhere with Code52 - Markdown.
+
+## Pretzel
+
+Code52 are big fans of [Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll), the Ruby-based static site generator tool. In fact, the site you are reading leverages output from Jekyll (running on GitHub too - check out the code [here](https://github.com/code52/code52.github.com)) and all our project sites run on top of the same stack (more details [here](http://code52.org/gh-pages.html)).
+
+To develop locally against Jekyll, you need to install ruby and configure your environment to install the right set of gems. **We want to create a tool in this vein which is more friendly for .NET developers - and support for the technologies that they use so that they too can quickly create sites.**
+
+We also want to explore implementing features on top of this Jekyll-like workflow:
+
+ * support different templating engines - Razor/Spark/???
+ * support dynamic content alongside static content - for example using AppHarbor to generate content on-the-fly.
+ * support for different inputs - could we generate documentation for code using this tool?
+
+But before we head down that road, we want a simple tool to generate our websites.
+
+## Why Pretzel?
+
+We were discussing on JabbR what to name this tool, and someone described the process of generating a site as "baking". A few minutes later, we'd settled on the name "Pretzel" for the tool, rather than some derivative of Jekyll and Hyde.
+
+Conceptually, Pretzel could support two modes - **bake** and **taste**. 
+
+**Bake** is for a once-off generation of the site.
+
+To scan the current directory for a website and detect the content to process, run:
+
+    pretzel bake 
+
+To scan a specific folder and parse the contents, run:
+
+    pretzel bake C:\path\to\folder
+
+To explicitly specify the input - we should support inferring the input based on the files found anyway - run:
+
+    pretzel bake --engine jekyll
+    
+**Taste** is for testing a site locally using a browser - make a change, and Pretzel should detect the file changes and regenerate the site.
+
+To test a site locally (we plan to use [Dragonfly](https://github.com/loudej/dragonfly)), run:
+
+	pretzel taste 
+
+To specify the port to serve the site from (default will be 4000), run:
+
+    pretzel taste --port 5000
+
+
+There's more ideas that we'll get to over teh course of the week, but this should give people an idea of how the tool should behave.
+
+
+## How can I get involved?
+
+The initial code is up on [GitHub](http://github.com/Code52/pretzel). The [Trello board](https://trello.com/board/pretzel/4f25ffb3dbbed1ab5a4f0f5a) will be updated over the course of today to define the set of tasks we plan to implement.
+
+Got an feature you'd like to see implemented in Pretzel? Hang out in the chatroom at [JabbR](http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/code52) and join in on the fun!
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