“Who cares about printing money, let’s print chocolate!” –Chapter 23, Driving Wiki Development, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate Do you need proof that Sarah Maddox, author of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, is a complete chocolate and wiki expert? Let me tell you, she knew that one day we […]
Command line reference with true scrolling
I’m at the OpenStack Design Summit this week, and one of the OpenStack companies here, Piston Computing, created a pen that contains a scroll inside. When you open the scroll, you can see all the commands available for the “nova” client, which is how you send commands to the OpenStack Compute API at the command […]
Musings on Collaborative Authoring
I’m reading new thinking from Adam Hyde, FLOSS Manuals founder, in a new book titled “A Webpage is a Book” at http://www.booki.cc/a-webpage-is-a-book/_edit/. I found the gem of a quote above in the section on collaboration. He is re-writing his book about book sprints in this new tome. I knew he had been refining his thinking […]