I attended the Fluent Conference in SF this past week and I will be writing up some of the better talks. For posterity, here are all the talks that I saw or wanted to see.

Talks that I attended

• Introduction to Twitter Bootstrap
• Building a Webapp Step-by-Step
• Wednesday Keynotes
• Implementing Hypermedia Clients: It’s Not Rocket Science
• Build Big Data Apps with the Web Technology You Know and Love
• Flow Control with Promises
• AngularJS – HTML enhanced for Web-apps
• Thursday Keynotes
• 1.21 gigawatts: ChromeApps with AngularJS and Node
• Break Out Of The Browser With HTML5
• How To: Make Fast Design-Decisions as a Developer
• More Than Good Design

Talks that I was interested in (but didn’t see)

• Secrets of Awesome API Design
• Web Components: A Tectonic Shift for the Web Platform
• “this” in JavaScript : How It Really Works
• Classical Inheritance is Obsolete: How to Think in Prototypal OO
• Battle of the HTML5 Hackers
• Go Node Without Code
• Improving JavaScript Code Quality: Strategies and Tools

• Ruby 1.9.3
  • Get xcode (or Xcode command line tools)
  • \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s
  • rvm autolibs homebrew
  • rvm requirements
  • rvm install 1.9.3
• Install Octopress
  • I had line ending issues with this application
  • git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
  • cd octopress # If you use RVM, You’ll be asked if you trust the .rvmrc file (say yes).
  • ruby --version # Should report Ruby 1.9.3
  • bundle install
  • rake install
• Deploy to Github Pages
  • Create a new Github repository and name the repository with your user name or organization name username.github.io
  • rake setup_github_pages – use the git protocol for the remote url
    • This creates a crazy structure
      • _deploy –> master
      • everything else –> source
      • public –> ignored (generated)
  • Fix the tracking branch – git branch --set-upstream source origin/source
• Configure Octopress
  • Modify _config.yml
    • name, title, etc
    • Third party – github, twitter, etc.
  • regenerate and redeploy- rake generate && rake deploy
• Post!
  • rake new_post
  • Edit the post created
    • Add some categories
    • Write the post – Using Markdown
  • Check it out – rake preview
  • Publish! – rake deploy

I like the idea of having bread crumb trail. Places that I’ve been. Technologies that I struggled with and learned something about.

Thanks to bolore for the inspiration.