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Build Podcast

Build Podcast is a screencast about technology tools 🔩 🔌 🔋 🔡 💻 for design and development. Each episode, Sayanee will be creating a screencast that will take you through step-by-step in using one tool to build a little project, all in the fun spirit of hacking, creating and building stuff!

Related links: Main website, Twitter, RSS Feed, Youtube, Vimeo, iTunes

Quick start

install dependencies

$ bundle install && npm install

start the website
```
$ npm start
```

Install

For website

Install various packages:

$ bundle install # for jekyll
$ gem install vimeo tempfile json thor launchy # for vimeo script
$ npm install # for assets and automation scripts
$ brew install ffmpeg sox # for post-processing video and audio

For tmuxinator

link tmux script bp.yml for starting up

$ ln -s /Users/{username}/Workspace/path/to/folder/bp.yml /Users/{username}/.tmuxinator/bp.yml # create a symlink
$ tmuxinator bp

For recording screencast and post-processing

create episode.json in one up level of hierarchy

$ cp automation/episode.sample.json ../episode.json
# edit file episode.json accordingly

symlink scripts bp, norm and vimeo

$ ln -s /Users/{username}/Workspace/path/to/folder/automation/bp /Users/{username}/path/to/folder/bp
$ ln -s /Users/{username}/Workspace/path/to/folder/automation/norm /Users/{username}/path/to/folder/norm
$ ln -s /Users/{username}/Workspace/path/to/folder/automation/vimeo /Users/{username}/path/to/folder/vimeo

install python packages

download python google data and install it

<ul dir="auto">
  <li>
    <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/downloads/list">download youtube-upload</a> and <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/wiki/Readme#Download_&_Install">install it</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    install both packages with the following commands:</p> <pre>$ tar xvzf {package}.tar.gz

$ cd {package} $ sudo python setup.py install

Setup dev.build-podcast in local

This is to display the introduction page at the start of each screencast.

edit /etc/hosts

...
127.0.0.1 dev.build-podcast.com
...

edit nginx config file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

http {
  ...
  include /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
  ...
server {
listen       80;
server_name  dev.build-podcast.com;
charset utf-8;
add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge,chrome=1";
index   index.html;

location / {
  expires -1;
  add_header Pragma "no-cache";
  add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0";
  root    /Users/{username}/path/to/build-podcast/start;
}

}
}

Development

This Github repository consists of sample code for each episode and the entire website for Build Podcast.
When preparing the show notes in local machine, execute the following in the command line in git branch master:

to build:

$ LANG="en_US.UTF-8" && LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" && jekyll build

to add new posts: to start the Jekyll server with development configurations

$ LANG="en_US.UTF-8" && LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" && jekyll serve --watch --config _dev_config.yml

to edit css and javascript: to start the GruntJS continuous compilation for CSS and JavaScript
```
$ grunt
```

If there’s and error for invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII, try to reset the locale settings

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

For quickly firing up all the above commands, use tmux:

tmuxinator bp

Scripts

Automation with scripts:

Start a new episode: bp new
Open an existing episode: bp open
Record aa new episode: bp record
Publish a new episode: bp pub

License

All content belongs to YOU under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

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