The legendary book sprint method has come through again! This past week in a bunker, I mean, secure location near Annapolis, a team of security experts got together to write the OpenStack Security Guide. I’m pleased as can be to have the privilege of sharing the epub with you here and now, the evening of […]
Documentation as Conversation with CSS

Three types of speech balloons: speech, thought, scream. I love to explore new ways of conveying technical information, and I’m interested in documentation as conversation. Last year I wanted to convey a “side note” on each page of a Sphinx site, as if the page were talking to you. I needed to let people know […]
Who Wrote OpenStack Grizzly Docs?

Sneaking a peek at the numbers for documentation along with the code should show us pointers about docs keeping up with code. As I suspected, there were about three major contributors to the operations manuals that span all the projects, and about three major contributors to the API docs. Also not a big surprise, I […]