Recently, I’ve had to do quite a bit of online publishing. After going at it for a while, I realized that a good part of the workflow is repetitive and can be automated, so I rolled up my sleeves and scratched the itch.
Introducing 2 generators designed to speed up and simplify the usually tedious process of creating and publishing web content.
Screendocs – publish step-by-step screenshots easily
A mac application, designed by yours truly, for capturing step-by-step screenshots, generate HTML and publishing it online in one step.
In other words, a really nice way to upgrade that wall of text.
Get Screendocs Pro for projects and teams or the standalone Dropbox version.
Octopress – static blogging framework that’s fun for developers
A Jekyll based static blogging framework with nice fsevent-based Guard auto generation.
This is what I’m using to design this website in nice HAML and SASS and write posts in Markdown.
The included Rake file allows you to:
Preview the site via:
rake preview
Deploy the generated static HTML site Rsync over SSH via:
rake deploy
This makes deploying to my VPS fuss-free.
Check out my Octopress edge fork, which fixes a Google Analytics include bug.
Why use the Octopress edge fork?
Because it includes the magical Rake tasks mentioned above and works with Ruby 1.9.