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 […]
Q and A about Author-it and DITA – guest post from Mike Stockman
I read this recent conversation on the author-it-users Yahoo Group with interest. I haven’t had a need to author DITA topics with Author-it, so I have to rely on others for information on how it works. With Mike Stockman’s and Tony Watkin’s permission, I’ve written their Q&A as a blog entry. Tony: What are your […]
Something old, something new – design patterns
I’m feeling a little late to the party of patterns that I’ve been reading about lately, but after attending Michael Hughes’ STC webinar presentation “Pattern Language as a Workshop Management Tool” where we saw patterns for user assistance, and we were really intrigued by an internal wiki page he pulled up giving DITA patterns to […]