Interview with Anne Gentle, author of Docs Like Code and Product Manager at Cisco.
Interview by Ellis Pratt, Cherryleaf
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Topics covered:
Links to topics mentioned:
https://www.docslikecode.com/
Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation
Troy Howard Documentarian, Super Genius at Twitter
http://codewerdz.org/ Repository analytics for code and docs
Matt Fleming on Twitter
Docs Like Code GitHub repository
Jekyll
https://docs.openstack.org/pike/
WADL RAML OpenAPI
https://bitbucket.org/
http://docs.metacloud.com/
Liquid scripting
YAML
PrinceXML
Lunr Search Engine
Solr (Search Engine)
Why we use a ‘docs as code’ approach for technical documentation Jen Lambourne, GDS, GOV.UK
The Definition of Done
Learn Python the Hard Way
AsciiDoc
ReST
GitHub Flavoured Markdown spec
XML Press
REST API
Building Docs Like Code - article
Travis CI
Jenkins
Circle CI
Webhooks
Bash scripts
An Introduction to Static Site Generators
GitHub Pages
146. What is the current demand for contract Technical Authors?
145. How large organisations create useful, informative, accessible content
144. Corporate rebranding - how it affects technical authors
143. e-ink writing tablets. Has their time come?
142. Trends in technical communication for 2024 and beyond
141. What Techcomm problems can generative AI solve?
140. Kristof Van Tomme on the role of API and developer portals in Generative AI systems
139. Techsmith’s Daniel Foster on the contentious relationship between technical writers and video content
138: Generative AI and Techcomm, lessons learnt so far
137. Using AI in techcomm: the questions you’re asking
136. Generative AI, what do the buzzwords mean?
135. Writing procedures needed for regulatory compliance
134. We’re copying Google’s elearning courses, and how you can do it as well
133. What will ChatGPT mean for technical communication?
132. Dealing with a layoff
131. Diana Logan on GitLab and Hackathons
130. Trends in technical communication for 2023 and beyond
129. Your first 90 days as a Documentation Manager
128. Optimising Technical Documentation for Search
127. Creating Playbooks
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