Nikola-as-a-service demo

One of the things I hacked at during this PyCamp is trying to figure out a nice workflow for Nikola, something that will enable users that are not so technical, to use it.

One first step is Nikola-as-a-service, which is meant for technical users anyway but lays down the infrastructure for this to work semi-nicely.

In the video below, you will see me do this:

• Go to GitHub
• Take a starter's blog I provided, and do a clone
• Go to the nikola-as-a-service site, and login (via twitter)
• Create a site using my fork's repo URL
• Get a "webhook" URL, and add it to my fork's admin as a post-commit hook
• Edit a file in github's web UI and commit it (you can of course just push from any github client)
• Automatically, the site nikola-as-a-service publishes gets updated.

Please don't try to use this service yet because:

1. It's running in a $4.50/month server
2. It's the same server my own blog uses
3. I will turn it off, delete everything, etc. every once in a while
4. I am editing the code on the server, so no guarantees it will not just stop working.

So, here's the video: