Technical writing with Continuous Integration and docs-as-code
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 […]
I’ve participated in a few hackathons in the past year, since I’ve been working on a team of developer advocates at Rackspace. I wanted to chronicle some of my experiences with a few goals in mind: recording memories for myself, letting others get ideas for the wide range of hackathons, and chronicling the wide variety […]
I wrote a post on the O’Reilly Programming blog about our experiences writing a book in five days and revising it for publication as an O’Reilly book. The blog post is titled, The book sprint: Not just for code any more. This infographic summarizes the numbers quite well. Many thanks to Racker Claudia Charbel for […]