Global Index to help you find resources
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-06-01 19:21:47 - Graham EllisHow can you find all blog articles on Ruby? How about everything that I've written about looking after forums, and with all the information about spammers close to it? With 15,000 URLs on the site, these apparently easy questions aren't so easy any more.
However - In an attempt to help (largely to help myself during courses!) I have added in a Global Index Page that lists all of our modules and categories about which I have blogged, and also lists longer examples and source code links too. The idea is that I can quickly scan up and down for what I want ... in a module and in nearby ones ... during a course, rather like the sidebar we have when projecting a .pdf document.
The global index page is a huge one; don't try it on dialup - but as all the links are targeted to a new window, it can remain displayed for hours. There ARE quick links to jump within the page, and if you've been on one of our courses and have a manual, the module number is the number in the top left of the page.
If you wondered why there was a series of obscure technical blogs this morning .. that's because I have started to add blogs about subjects that I train on, but haven't spoken to as of yet. Give it time, and perhaps the whole could turn into a book!