Archive for July, 2006:

Happy Sysadmin day!

{ Posted on Jul 28 2006 by annegentle }
Show your support and appreciation for all the sysadmins who keep your email (and other business services) in tiptop shape My sysadmin husband asked me this morning what I'm getting him for System Administrator Appreciation Day and I drew ...Read More »

Eating our own dog food, or sipping our own champagne

{ Posted on Jul 27 2006 by annegentle }
How we strive to achieve BSM at BMC Eating your own dog food. The phrase comes from the early television advertising genre when people would ask, but will the dog eat the food? Today it's categorized as ...Read More »

Found a Microsoft tech writing blog

{ Posted on Jul 25 2006 by annegentle }
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Categories : talk.bmc, wiki
Tech pubs at Microsoft, one blogger's view In addition to being an interesting view into tech pubs at Microsoft, the blogger talks to MSDN Wiki product managers. So I wanted to be sure to point to Harry ...Read More »

Examples of software and IT services related to business

{ Posted on Jul 22 2006 by annegentle }
The reaction to the problem more important than the root cause I was intrigued by the tagline on this new blog, g2zero: Better Code == Business, which I take to mean that better code is equivalent to better business. ...Read More »

Alterpoint blog gives kudos to our Routes to Value approach to BSM and ITIL

{ Posted on Jul 19 2006 by annegentle }
Breaking down best practices by making the parts easily accessible Alterpoint is located in Austin (where I'm located) and makes network management software that is integrated with our BMC Remedy Action Request System and BMC now ...Read More »

A web-form based DITA editor

{ Posted on Jul 14 2006 by annegentle }
Could this be the perfect storm for a DITA wiki? Written with just HTML, Javascript, DOM, and CSS, as far as I can tell, DITA Storm is a product that enables web-form-based DITA topic authoring and display. ...Read More »

MSDN has a new wiki for Visual Studio

{ Posted on Jul 12 2006 by annegentle }
Microsoft has a wiki for end-user documentation for Visual Studio 2005 Cote tipped me off to a really fresh new wiki on MSDN for Visual Studio. It appears that they've compiled a lot of developer ...Read More »

Adobe’s stepping up their tech writer toolkit?

{ Posted on Jul 11 2006 by annegentle }
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Is Adobe wooing the tech writer market? I'll speculate freely about whether Adobe's working on a tech writer workflow or toolkit, bouncing off of The Content Wrangler's prediction of a Technical Writing Suite from Adobe. (Thanks ...Read More »

Where to put your files and other setup for DITA

{ Posted on Jul 09 2006 by annegentle }
Working with the environment setup for DITA I found this DITA Tip-Where to Put Your Files the other day and it's a nice explanation of not only how to set up the file storage for DITA topics ...Read More »

eBay offers an informative wiki

{ Posted on Jul 08 2006 by annegentle }
eBay starts the biggest commercial wiki yet I love finding good examples of wikis, so my ears perked up when I saw the new eBay Wiki pop on my radar screen via the Read/Write Web blog. It's ...Read More »