DOS | Just Write Click

October 19, 2006 by annegentle

Nifty tools

Open a DOS command prompt from Windows Explorer – how have I been missing out on this tool? And the Google Docs & Spreadsheets tool is a great idea. Not long ago, I was tipped off to a handy add-on tool for Windows XP that lets you right click and open a DOS command window […]

June 14, 2006 by annegentle

Tips for those pesky vssver.scc files

Batch changes to mark files as hidden makes life a little easier when using Visual Source Safe and Dreamweaver to edit HTML files I author online Help in Dreamweaver and use Visual Source Safe (VSS) to store the HTML content files. When you use VSS, each directory contains a vssver.scc file for version tracking. That […]

May 25, 2006 by annegentle

MS-DOS tips for time and date stamps

How to make zip files and folders with a formatted date and time stamp as the folder name in a DOS batch file automatically We have a help rendition system internally, where all we writers do is create the source files needed to make CHM files (HHK, HHC, HHP, HTML), zip up the HTML source […]

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 […]