The Grinnell College Digital Library Application Developer's Blog
Call it The GCDLADB if you like.
Building this Blog with Hugo, Docker, Docksal, and More 11 min read Nov 19, 2018
In this post I will attempt to chronicle the steps my associates and I took to complete the configuration of static.grinnell.edu, and to eventually create this blog following Juan Treminio’s lead. Small portions of Juan’s blog post are reproduced here, with permission, so that you can follow along in his work. Those passages appear with a colored background like so: …I will walk you through the complete process of setting up a static website that you can deploy new versions with a simple git push. ...
Posts 0 min read Nov 18, 2018
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A Blog is Born 2 min read Nov 18, 2018
Have you ever wondered how a blog is born? The story behind this blog begins with my interest in stepping back from the CMS world, primarily Drupal, to discover the joys of static site generation. The journey begins in earnest at the 2016 DLF Forum: Milwaukee on the eve of the United States’ 2016 national election, when all the buzz that wasn’t political, was about building static web sites, and Jekyll. A few weeks after the DLF Forum this server was born, thanks to the my colleagues in the Grinnell College (GC) Libraries, and Grinnell’s Information Technology Services (ITS) department. ...
Site Search 0 min read Jan 1, 0001
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