Fixing pelican revealjs plugin

Introduction After my recent talk about blog-o-matic, I was trying to upload somewhere the slides I used. Since some time ago I started using Reveal-MD, so I could use Markdown to create and show slides, but wanted also a way to upload them for consumption. Pelican-revealmd plugin seemed to be the answer. It does use pypandoc library and ‘pandoc’ for doing the conversion. The problems found After some test, it had 3 issues:...

January 20, 2019 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Project automation with Travis, GitHub Pages and Quay

Project hosting and automation /me: Pablo Iranzo Gómez ( https://iranzo.io ) You got a shinny new project? What now? Code usually also requires a webpage Documentation, General Information, Developer information, etc Web costs money Hosting, Domain, Maintenance, etc Some Philosophy Empty your mind, be shapeless, formless, like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle You put water in a teacup, it becomes the teapot Now water can flow or it can crash....

January 16, 2019 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Blog-o-Matic - quickly get a GitHub hosted blog with Pelican, Elegant with little setup steps.

Introduction I’ve already covered some articles about automation with Travis-CI, GitHub, and one step that seems a show-stopper for many users when trying to build a website is on one side, the investment (domain, hosting, etc), the backend being used (WordPress, static generators, etc)… While preparing a talk for a group of co-workers covering several of those aspects, I came with the idea to create Blog-o-Matic, implementing many of those ’learnings’ in a ‘canned’ way that can be easy to consume by users....

January 9, 2019 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Triggering a Travis-CI build on another repo

Introduction After setting up build automation we also wanted it not to happen only when updating the documentation repository. Besides hosting documentation, Elegant website also serves as a live demo of the current release. This meant, the website should be regenerated and updated every time when a documented is added or edited, and also when Elegant theme is updated. Github and Travis doesn’t offer dependent builds out of the box, so the trick goes to ‘signal’ via a github token to trigger a Travis-CI build....

December 11, 2018 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

How to automate via Travis CI publishing of new pelican pages to GitHub pages

Background Elegant theme for pelican has been undergoing a big change from individual-driven effort to community, as part of this, one of the tasks to accomplish, has been the decoupling from author blog to project site for documentation. As we wanted this process to be both automated and allowed us to demonstrate via eat-your-own-dog-food that the theme works and how it looks, the idea was to automate the rendering of Pelican website with new documents....

December 7, 2018 · 4 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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