Feels strange that it's been so long, but we're at it again, and loving TKLDEV.

Our first challenge with TKLDEV has been trying to produce a fully turn key appliance for the new Ghost blogging platform.

Ghost is still under development, but its source is public on github. It's an ambitious project: a professional blogging platform (with journalists in mind) that produces well-formatted posts through a sole reliance on Markdown.

We were unsure which Turnkey appliance to use as our base: MySQL, NodeJS, LAMP...There are good arguments for all of them. But ultimately, we went with core - we had frustration working with Node and understanding it; We were/are new to Nodejs. So, this patch compiles node from source, installs and configure nginx, and relies on SQLite; inithooks prepare the application on first boot by asking for email, asking for and hashing password, and setting the URL in Ghost's config.js.

Ghost: http://ghost.org

Ghost on Github: http://github.com/tryghost

Ghost for TKLDEV: https://github.com/ghoulmann/tkl-ghost

Ghost is configured to install at /opt/ghost; I remember this being a variable so it's almost easy to change in the code. Web Dev students contributed images (Davida, James, Bryan); advanced Information Systems Management students contributed code (Paul, Lucas, Alex, Joseph, TJ); first year ISM students also contributed (Micah, Sean, Matthew, Kelvin, Jonathan).

There's one outstanding point to be corrected: asking for the URL at firstboot seems awkward; it seems better to set the URL automatically on everyboot based on $ipaddr.

What do you think? All feedback is significantly appreciated. Looking forward to working on more.