Hey. You’re reading my website. Bet you want to know how this all got here. Well, I am supposed to tell you. So, here we go:

I started with a local copy of WordPress hosted on localhost under Ubuntu. I picked WordPress, because themes and widgets and all the fun stuff that would detract from my complete lack of documentation. I had to make sure that proper permissions were set on the content subfolder. I also had to work around WP’s insistence that I needed FTP access to my own computer.

The trick to uploading a WordPress site to the FabAcademy repository is converting it to flat HTML files. I did that by using an app called httrack. The application scans a website and copies the HTML into an output folder. I then copy the files into my student directory into my cloned repository that I keep on my desktop. Pull, update, addremove, commit, and push; I take some modest gasps that are peppered with prayer, and (voila!) my FabAcademy page updates!

Even though I am completing documentation in 2016, I am still using the Mercurial workflow from 2015.