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December 29, 2013 by annegentle

A Few of my Favorite Things for 2013

This year has been filled with interesting finds, discoveries, and productivity. Plus oxford commas! Here are my favorite things for 2013. The Hunger Games trilogy, because it’s like a window into a mind of a smart writer who writes with purpose. The Documentation chapter of the Developer Support Handbook has to be one of my […]

June 7, 2013 by annegentle

PyLadies Austin OpenStack Presentation

The lovely and talented Barbara Shaurette invited me to speak to the PyLadies Austin chapter last night and I readily accepted! I was quite nervous as I had not one but two demos to run, one of which involved running actual Python code. I took Ed Leafe’s Pyrax tutorial and got it running with my […]

May 22, 2013 by annegentle

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 […]

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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 […]