Two Sun microsystems writers from southern Cal Gail Chappell gail.chappell@sun.com Cindy Church cindy.church@sun.com “Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.” Robert C. Gallagher (author) Audience – college age developers, industry-savvy developers working in the workforce coding enterprise apps Documented NetBeans Ruby – tool for creating Ruby language programs, part of Netbeans integrated dev […]
STC2008 – Writing as an Asynchronous Conversation
I had high expectations for Ginny Redish’s talk at STC this year, and she did not disappoint. It was wonderful to have my ideas about conversation and technical communication vetted and couched in academic terms such as linguistics, pragmatics, and so forth. Here are my notes. Please let me know if this is useful to […]
Finding and following conversations – applicable for technical writers?
Bryan has the following ideas for finding and following conversations, and I think these are quite applicable to our role as technical writer also. The only item I find wanting in his post is – what keywords do you use? My initial ideas are: product name, keywords for the problems and solutions that your product […]