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I think I’m done here
I always hoped that if I was going to be replaced by a robot, it would look something like the one in the Terminator movies. Instead, thanks to Narrative Science, I’m going to be replaced by a lowly piece of software. Narrative Science, a software company based in Evanston, Illinois, has developed technology that “transforms(…)
MadCap Roadshow (Boston)
On Monday, May 23, I attended the Boston edition of the MadCap Software roadshow (actually, it was held in Dedham). The event is a full day of high-level training and show-and-tell about MadCap’s Flare. MadCap founder Mike Hamilton presented, along with MadCap support guy Neil Posner. Also on hand was a famous local Neil: Flare(…)
Can Twitter be used for technical documentation? (Hint: No.)
Interesting post on Anne Gentle’s blog, Just Write Click, in which a technical communications student from the University of Minnesota asks: Can Twitter really be used for documentation…? The answer, of course, is no. Or is it? It depends on how you want to describe “documentation”. Your customer is not going to look up CLI(…)
MadCap Flare 7
Authoring tool Flare, from MadCap Software, is one of my favorite content development applications. It’s right up there with FrameMaker, and might even take the number one spot — if I ever got a chance to use it. Flare’s popularity is growing, but I haven’t had many clients or employers that have adopted it as(…)
Clean Snowmobile Challenge
I wish they’d had this competition when I was in college: The SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge has teams of college engineering students competing to produce greener sleds without sacrificing performance or handling. I had a great time researching and writing this piece for Gizmag.com