coleslaw

coleslaw

Czeslaw Milosz was the writer-in-residence at UNC c. 1992. I used to see him all the time at the Hardback Cafe, always sitting at a two-top drinking coffee, reading, writing, eating chips and salsa. I remember a gentleness behind the enormous bushy eyebrows and that we called him Coleslaw. - anon

Coleslaw aims to be flexible blog software suitable for replacing a single-user static site compiler such as Jekyll.

Features

• Git for storage
• RSS and Atom feeds!
• Markdown Support with Code Highlighting provided by colorize.
  • Currently supports: Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, C, C++, Java, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Obj-C, Diff.

• Multi-site publishing support.

• A Plugin API and plugins for...

  • Comments via Disqus
  • Analytics via Google
  • Hosting via Github Pages
  • Deploying to Amazon S3.
  • Using LaTeX (inside pairs of $$) via Mathjax
  • Using ReStructured Text
  • Importing posts from wordpress

• There is also a Heroku buildpack maintained by Jose Pereira.

• Example sites: redlinernotes and (lisp :is 'fun).

Installation

This software should be portable to any conforming Common Lisp implementation but this guide will assume SBCL is installed. Testing has also been done on CCL. Server side setup:

1. Setup git and create a bare repo as shown here.
2. Install Lisp and Quicklisp.
3. wget -c https://raw.github.com/redline6561/coleslaw/master/examples/single-site.coleslawrc -O ~/.coleslawrc # and edit as necessary
4. wget -c https://raw.github.com/redline6561/coleslaw/master/examples/example.post-receive -O your-blog.git/hooks/post-receive # and edit as necessary
5. chmod +x your-blog/.git/hooks/post-receive
6. Create or clone your blog repo locally. Add your server as a remote with git remote add prod git@my-host.com:path/to/repo.git
7. Point the web server of your choice at the symlink /path/to/deploy-dir/.curr/

Now whenever you push a new commit to the server, coleslaw will update your blog automatically! You may need to git push -u prod master the first time.

The Post Format

Coleslaw expects post files to be formatted as follows:

;;;;;
title: foo
tags: bar, baz
date: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
format: html (for raw html) or md (for markdown)
;;;;;
your post

Theming

A default theme, hyde, is provided. Themes are made using Google's closure-template and the source for hyde should be simple and instructive until I can provide better docs.