Deploy Jekyll using FTP

Jekyll is a blog aware static website generator, Jekyll is mostly used for serving GitHub Pages, you can also run your Jekyll based website on shared hosting, VPS, PAAS and many other hosting platforms. Most hosting platforms do not offer Git to deploy. Most platforms offer FTP and SFTP and sometimes FTP is the only way to transfer files into your server.

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Jekyll on Raspberry Pi

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Jekyll is a blog aware static website generator written in Ruby that converts Markdown files into static HTML files. It supports many Markdown interpreter here are some of them RDiscount , Maruku, Kramdown and RedCarpet. Jekyll stores its configuration in a _config.yml file that contains information about how to build the static website and which module and plugins should be used, It is one of the most widely used static website generators. It is recommended due to its popularity and large community support and active development.

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Atom on Arch Linux

Atom is a cross platform open source text/source code editor developed by GitHub written in C++, Node.js, Coffee Script, JavaScript, CSS. Atom offers a built-in package manager called APM to install packages developed by Atom developers and third-party developers. Atom is built on top of Chromium-based desktop application framework. The user can tweak atom UI. All the user must do is edit a simple stylesheet written in ‘less’. This stylesheet overrides the default config. The Atom UI can also be reset by cleaning the changes made me the user. Atom editor in active development, Atom by default has a limit of only a file of 2 MB which can be tweaked by the user if he wishes to open a larger file. Atom supports languages that other editor does not support (example: sass, scss).

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Android SDK : installation on Ubuntu via PPA

**Android SDK** is a development kit targeted at developing apps for mobile devices running Android. With the Android SDK, one can develop, debug, and test apps via an inbuilt emulator. The emulator can emulate the expected behavior of the Android OS on many platforms including Linux, Windows, and Mac. Here, we will instruct you on … Read more