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November 5, 2015 by annegentle

Google I/O 2015, Looking Back and Forward

I wore my Google I/O t-shirt the other day while hiking, and realized I hadn’t posted a write up from that developer conference back in May 2015. This year they had a big push towards bringing women to the conference through effective methods. Google has an Android developer community called Women Techmakers, led by Natalie […]

March 14, 2015 by annegentle

Be sure to read about my Stacker journey

The editors at The New Stack do great things with their articles, and mine is no exception! Be sure to read Anne Gentle: One Stacker’s Journey. Even though I’ve lived in Austin, Texas, for over 14 years now, I tend to say I’m a midwesterner when asked. There are traits associated with the spirit of […]

January 12, 2015 by annegentle

REST API Analysis: How To Size Endpoints Using Command-Line Tools

For both OpenStack and Rackspace cloud APIs, we use WADL, Web Application Description Language, to build an API reference listing for all REST API calls. In a previous post, I discussed how the reference pages at http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html were made with a WADL source and a Maven plugin, clouddocs-maven-plugin. (Updated to add: in 2023, you would use OpenAPI Specification […]

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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 […]