How 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!
(written 2009-06-01, updated 2009-06-03)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
W512 - Web and Intranet - Site Design Aspects [229] A fortunate accident - (2005-02-27)
[261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29)
[288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
[319] Accommodation and landing pages - (2005-05-21)
[345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
[352] Improved mining techniques! - (2005-06-19)
[391] One mans pleasure is another mans poison - (2005-07-26)
[510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site - (2005-11-29)
[556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful - (2006-01-06)
[649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17)
[718] Protecting images from theft - (2006-05-12)
[795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
[823] An excellent use for a visitor count? - (2006-08-05)
[859] Put the answer in context - it may be printed - (2006-09-08)
[918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08)
[1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30)
[1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
[1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
[1353] Mood shots - (2007-09-16)
[1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02)
[3517] Tags used in writing this blog - (2011-11-12)
[3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (2011-12-26)
[3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines - (2012-01-22)
W501 - Introduction to Web Site Structure [332] Looking up IP addresses - (2005-06-01)
[528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls - (2005-12-14)
[1024] Web site - a refresh to improve navigation - (2007-01-07)
[1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages? - (2007-01-13)
[1168] Moving out some of the web site bloat - (2007-04-29)
[1176] A pu that got me into trouble - (2007-05-04)
[1198] From Web to Web 2 - (2007-05-21)
[1431] Getting the community on line - some basics - (2007-11-13)
[1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing - (2008-05-08)
[1686] FTP - how not to corrupt data (binary v ascii) - (2008-06-24)
[1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen. - (2009-01-01)
[2094] If you have a spelling mistake in your URL / page name - (2009-03-21)
[2282] Checking robots.txt from Python - (2009-07-12)
[2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise? - (2009-12-26)
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Multiple web applications under Tomcat - what are the options?Enjoying the summer weatherPast Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend BreakIf nothing, make it nothing.Global Index to help you find resourcesKeyboard reading in Perl - character by character not line by lineDripping taps, Java threads and the single thread modelTcl/Tk - why does the canvas widget use a display list?MySQL server replicationMonitoring and Tuning your MySQL installation