wpoint, Author at WritePoint

Some Twitter Twitterisms

Twitterisms - words that come from a need to make Twitter a personalized, unique experience. Some relate specifically to those spheres in which I orbit Twitter, others come from others…thanks to all for the contributions. Twinyan - @Buberzionist asks: If ten Jews got together to pray on Twitter it would be a Twinyan Twuttering - @UnveilingHope explains that this term is created by combining Twitter and Stuttering - when you Tweet something twice by accident. Twammers - you…

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December 28, 2009

Technical Writing

Future of Technical Writing with Miriam Lottner of Tech Tav

Hi everyone, I’m live blogging from inside Miriam Lottner’s session at the TCC on the future of technical writing. Her focus is on where we were, where we are, and how we move into the future. Some interesting points here, many actually. She is talking about emerging technologies. She talked about Geisha Hadasha - that’s what customers are looking for. We are all on the social networks such as Twitter and Facebook - this is new and exciting…

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December 26, 2009

DITA

RADVISION and WritePoint DITA Solution

Alex Masycheff of WritePoint Ltd and Andy Lewis of RADVISION presented the DITA solution to the RADVISION documentation set. 30 conditionals were being managed at RADVISION to produce for combinations of documentation. Alex led the session with the DITA implementation design, which took unstructured FrameMaker v7.2 files into structured DITA, and ultimately into XML. RADVISION’s requirement was to produce multiple pdfs and multiple online help files, reusing existing information chunks. Using the DITA solution, RADVISION can do a…

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December 26, 2009

Writing

My Flak Jacket Please

I’m struggling here. I’m trying very hard to understand the Open Source philosophy. From Eric Raymond’s website and extensive history about hackers and the Open Source movement, to specifics on Source Forge and Gnu, I read and I read and I read very well-crafted papers. For a while I was able to hold the vision of creating software for the greater good, respecting others rights, and all those good platitudes – that is – until I happened upon…

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December 24, 2009