List of resources

[tgerke]

I try (mostly unsuccessfully) to keep a running list of sites/blogposts/similar that have been crucial in completing certain tasks. I'm sure we all do the same. I was thinking about how we linked this site up through netlify with another domain: I'm sure there are amazing walkthroughs out there for doing this, so there would be no need to create a blog post. Almost selfishly though, I'd like to document how we did it, so it could be done again if necessary (even if said documentation is a link to someone else's). Could there be a space on this site for a list of resources which are searchable by keyword that we've used to complete things that would have otherwise been cumbersome?

[gadenbuie]

@jhcreed said:

I always go through like 6 tutorials before I do something like this though so I think the more we have (no matter how basic it seems) the better

I agree too. Would the blog section work? We can post these kinds of posts under a consistent category, like Tutorial or Walkthrough, then there are category views: http://www.gerkelab.com/categories/r-development/

For increased visibility I can add category links to the header of the blog list at http://www.gerkelab.com/blog/ ... but we can wait until we have a bit more content for this step.

Adding search is a somewhat separate feature that I can pull out into it's own issue if we want that.

Blog posts are great for the "hey, I used this and here's how I made it work" kind of posts, and I'm all for having lots of these even if they're short. But if you're thinking of a more long-running document, we could do a package/resource list in the style of Awesome R that we can build into the website as a page rather than a post.

[tgerke]

You make a good point re: there is no need to put a minimum length on blog posts. I do click a lot of blog links that seem cool, and then I just go "ugh, tl;dr." Perhaps putting things in quick blogs is good for now; if we see the need for a list later we can open a new issue and restructure as appropriate.