This article was original published in the June 2007 issue of the CIDM Best Practices Newsletter. It is re-published in its entirety with the permission of the Center for Information Development Management. In this article, we examine an increasingly popular development methodology from the Extreme Programming family—Agile development—and how technical writers can operate successfully in […]
A watched folder for publishing from DITA source files
I’ve figured out a way to automate DITA builds where you just drop a zip file of your DITA source files into a “watched folder” and PDF and CHM files are automatically built This post describes creating a watched folder that runs DITA transforms on content that is copied into the folder on a shared […]
Usability and inline links in user assistance systems
Examining DITA’s linking and usability In this month’s Central Texas DITA User Group meeting, we had an excellent presentation about linking using DITA maps and relationship tables by Scott Stark from IBM. He’s located in Austin and supports about 150 writers in California. His presentation is available for download from the Files section (membership required) […]