Alan Porter’s presentation at the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting talked about Quadralay’s use of wikis internally and their external wiki at wiki.webworks.com. They have four wikis in operation right now, with one more to come. Back in 2003, they started their first wiki for the development team. Their company is a small one, […]
DITA and wiki hybrids – they’re here
Lisa Dyer and Alan Porter presented at last week’s DITA Central Texas User Group meeting, and both told tales of end-user doc written and sourced in DITA, with wikitext in mind as an output. About 20 people attended and we all enjoyed the show. I wanted to post my notes to follow up, and I’ll […]
Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?
DITA for writers (content creators) I just did a search on amazon.com for books for beginning technical writers and also to investigate what books are being written for our profession and for others wanting to start in our profession. I came across a book called Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach that suggests three categories […]