Jekyll Hacks with 3 lines of code

Okay, so I store an associative array in my _config.yml that has:

img:
baseImgURL: img
fileName: ['glyphicons-halflings-white', 'glyphicons-halflings-black',
'rachaelui','KindleFire','htcsense']

Now for magic the Jekyll code in this gist, allows me to do this:

{% assign siteImgArrayObject = 'site.img' %}
{% include FG/twitterbs_image_helper %}

Tada, just two lines. Three lines is I need href urls. Is that not neat? Thus I can do strips of images without the messy coding. All due to storing some metadata in my_config.yml.

Jekyll gh-pages Boilerplate, Jekyll Hacks

The Jekyll boilerplate I have been working is a few days away for being finished. There are some interesting Jekyll/Liquid hacks that I will be writing a long coding article about  that avoid you have to using jekyll plugins. For example the Jekyll and Liquid combination has a nice way to be able to iterate over site and page arrays. Traditionally,most have found that they can include an array that is not provided for the e Jekyll site  and page objects as YAML front matter. Did you know that is not the only to do it?

For example:


images:
fileName: [ 'idiot_recruiter.png', 'founder.png']
url: img

I can now iterate over that site.images.FileName, grabbing the file name and putting that with site.images.url to get a full image url for an image tag in a for loop. Than if you do some small image organization such as grouping non-global site images in groups you can make jekyll/liquid helpers that style it with features required for that post or page. Something like a list of images becomes less than 3 lines of code in Jekyll/Liquid by using the principle of a Jekyll/Liquid _includes helper. All because we started with the concept of using _config.yml to add objects to the site object that were not supplied by Jekyll by default. LOOK, no plugins required!

Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 WIP

if anyone wants to see what Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 WIP looks like being used, try:

 

http://shareme.github.com

I just redesigned it over the weekend, still some minor tweaks to go but I am happy with it.

Logo thoughts

For android developers we have certain marketing and branding constraints. According to Google/OHA, one cannot use android or droid in the company name, and one cannot use droid in the logo. But, however, we can use the for Android TM in the logo or other graphical marketing material.

And at this point beginning to put apps in the android market I have a twist on this puzzle. does everyone remember the first two logos Apple used?

This is of course before the Apple Computer brand was established. Notice in the 1st one, which is the 2nd one used in the apple time-line, there is not a company name or mention of what products or services. There is just this theme or meme of cultural messages of organic, good, new wave set of messages. What this did is forced Apple at the time live-and-die by their product quality and marketing/branding quality.

In fact is one of the reasons why Guy Kawaski’s work at Apple was so important. The difference here is while Apple was focused on one demographic group at the time with their graphic branding message. Given the wide swath of different demographical and generation groups that use mobile android applications today that will be a challenge.

Thus, that is what point I am at playing with logos to see what teme/memes I can trigger with the logo alone without any iconification of the android, droid, or anything else. But, instead trying out lettering so that I can focus on using colors to evoke a theme/meme and than go back to iconifying one object and than apply a color theme/meme to that icon to use as the logo.

Thus, far what gets high marks as far as interest thus far is the Green theme/meme . And it is somewhat strong world-wide and the nice thing it use to be that it meant two things as far as memes go and now I do not even have to mention the other one as everyone knows or assumes that I mean the Green theme/meme that they think I do. But I think I can use the iconification of one object to entice that assumption.

I will not show it just yet as I want to do some more testing. But, It will be up shortly.