This is awesome. I'll work on putting together a worthwhile notebook for
use of something new in yt, and post to the blog. Great job, Matt.
Cameron
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Turk
Hi all,
Yesterday I converted the blog to a new format. It now uses ReST, the same format as sphinx.
The blog can be a very effective means of reaching out to the community to share new information. At a bootcamp I ran a few weeks ago, many experienced users of yt were seeing PlotWindow for the very first time. We're doing some really cool stuff that nobody really knows about, because our communication channels are either transient (email), sparse (release announcements) or overwhelming (docs.) A blog is a good middle ground, but our existing blog on Posterous was awful: no one knew how to format code, every post looked different, had to manually approve stuff, blah blah.
So the new format uses ReST, and is super easy.
Fork here:
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/blog/fork
And add a new .rst file under content/post/ . You should set an "author" and you can see how this is done elsewhere.
Then issue a pull request, and bam, as soon as that PR is accepted, it gets rebuilt and posted at http://blog.yt-project.org/ .
I've also written a converter using IPython's nbconvert that will convert to the format needed for this particular blogging engine. So you can use a notebook to show some code, intersperse text and images, and then just run the blohg_converter.py script on it, and it will add a new post. This part needs a bit of cleanup on my part, but it's somewhat documented already.
Anyway, please -- if you do something cool, or write a new feature, add a post on the blog! I looked at feedburner today and we have 21 subscribers. I don't know how this is calculated, but yowza.
-Matt
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Technical details about the new blog:
blohg for maintaining it (blohg.org) bitbucket for storing the repository shiningpanda for building s3 for hosting IPython's nbconvert as engine to drive conversion of .ipynb => blohg ReST
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