OPML | Just Write Click

May 31, 2006 by annegentle

Defining OPML and relating to DITA maps

I found a nice definition for OPML from whatis.com as their word of the day, and I’m starting to wonder about similarities between OPML and DITA maps From an information design perspective, OPML is a great format for outlining information, showing information’s hierarchical structure and relationship to other entries. I had only really thought about […]

November 9, 2005 by annegentle

Reading IT-related blogs

What are you reading on IT blogs? Ever feel like you have 100 channels but nothing’s on? I’m definitely feeling that way about television. Now that I have a TiVo®, though, my television viewing is sharply focused to just the content that I want to know about. I recently showed a co-worker of mine my […]

October 21, 2005 by annegentle

Import all subscriptions for talk.bmc.com with one OPML file

Here’s a file you can import into your RSS aggregator to get talk.bmc.com content How about a file you can import and get all the talk.bmc.com content at your fingertips? I know I wanted one to “click in” with my 179 other feeds that I read in bloglines. So I made one using the OPML […]

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 […]