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Metalsmith

• http://www.metalsmith.io
• https://github.com/pjeby/gulpsmith
• WordPress (slow and expensive to host, but unfriendly) or a Static site (fast, cheap to host, but technical)

Metalsmith vs Gulp

• Metalsmith offer a file-tree-based approach
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23227248/is-there-some-gulp-plugin-that-lets-it-perform-the-function-of-a-static-site-gen

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Django Install - Nginx uwsgi

Once per server:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
easy_install -U pip
pip install virtualenv

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WSGIPythonPath /var/www/domain.com/project

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/project/
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/domain.com/project/project/wsgi.py
    #WSGIPythonPath /var/www/domain.com/project

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Setting up a RaspberryPi Web Server with NginX

WARNING!

I started this guide as I was building my web server but it was never finished. Nonetheless there's some valuable info for anyone starting a web server from scratch.

Steps

1. [download offline raspbian][0]
2. follow instructions for [no screen install of raspbian][1]
3. setup [static ip address][2], reserve in router, and update hosts file on remote computer
4. follow [secure web server][7], [secure ssh best practices][3], setup [ssh-copy-id in mac][4]

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# Optimized MySQL configuration for cPanel servers by Fotis Evangelou - Updated Feb 2016
#
# The settings provided below are a starting point for a 4GB-8GB RAM server with 4 CPU cores.
# If you have less or more resources available you MUST adjust accordingly to save CPU, RAM and disk I/O usage.
# To fine tune these settings for your system, use MySQL DB diagnostics tools like:
# https://launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer
# or
# http://blog.mysqltuner.com/download/
# Note that if there is NO comment beside a setting, then you don't need to adjust it.

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agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

• Solarized
• Git
• Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

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My modified fork of agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

• Solarized
• Git
• Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

Compatibility

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Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

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sys.path += ["."]
extensions += ["markdown"]

markdown_title = 'hello world'
source_suffix = '.md'

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Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.