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April 18, 2007 by annegentle

Transforming coins into donations using technology

I’m impressed when technology is used to transfer loose change into donations to charity I’m in the Sunnyvale BMC office this week, and I’m learning a lot about Configuration Management and how IT departments can manage desktops and servers, automatically sending patches and updates. I’m trying to put myself in the role of an IT […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: Coinstar, Geographic Information System, GIS, IT

April 12, 2007 by annegentle

Getting Started with DITA

A brief overview for a couple of fellow Austin writers who have asked me recently how and where to get started with DITA I have gotten two similar questions about getting started with DITA in the time span of about two weeks, so I thought I’d borrow from some of my answers as a write-up […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: DITA, DITA CHM, DITA editor, DITA HTML Help, DITA Install, DITA map, DITA Open Toolkit, DITA output, DITA processing, DITA Storm, DITA topic, DITA web editor

April 10, 2007 by annegentle

Checking out the new DITA Users website

Using a coupon code (it’s BETA) I joined the new DITA Users website for free today I was looking at DITA Storm, the web-based DITA editor, for a side project today and came across a link touting “comprehensive project-level DITA authoring and publishing experience.” I’m pretty excited about this discovery — it’s ditausers.org, a place […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: DITA, DITA editor, DITA Storm

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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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