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July 2, 2007 by annegentle

Microdecisions and macrodecisions

My final post at talk.bmc, but stay tuned at www.justwriteclick.com for more blogging I like to think about each day as a series of microdecisions, and hope that I mostly make microdecisions that make my kids and my family a priority. And eventually it won’t be the kids schedule we’re balancing, but maybe it’ll be […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: Advanced Solutions, Anne Gentle, decisions, justwriteclick

June 22, 2007 by annegentle

Usability and technology for sewing, fabrics, and other domesticities

Sewing is technology While on maternity leave, I picked up again on the hobbies that I enjoy that are, well, decidedly feminine but have quite an edge of technology to them. For example, sewing involves a rather complicated machine and patterns and an ability to envision things in three dimensions and reverse and inside out […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: ABC, craft magazine, knit, knitting, knitty gritty, make magazine, patterns, Rosie O'Donnell, sewing, sewing machines, sewing patterns, The View

June 12, 2007 by annegentle

A watched folder for publishing from DITA source files

I’ve figured out a way to automate DITA builds where you just drop a zip file of your DITA source files into a “watched folder” and PDF and CHM files are automatically built This post describes creating a watched folder that runs DITA transforms on content that is copied into the folder on a shared […]

Filed Under: DITA, talk.bmc Tagged With: automation, CHM, DITA, DITA automation, DITA builds, DITA output, DITA watched folder, PDF, watched folder

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I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]

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