Content-management expert Mollye Barrett says that when it comes to structured authoring, "you need to be immersed. It's no good just to be sprinkled." Amen, sister!

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It's been a while since I've written in this blog. I was going to write this article last week but there were things that demanded my attention so I had to put it off until today. Now that the apology is out of the way, let me get to the topic. On April 18, I attended a meeting of the local STC chapter and the topic was about the experience that C...

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A quick look at two STC events that I had the honor to participate in this week. An interesting view of the future and a surprise that came my way.

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DITA 101 Second Edition ISBN 978-0-557-69600-0 Ann Rockley, Steve Manning, and Charles Cooper with Mark Lewis The Rockley Group Copyright 2009 - 2010 Over the weekend, I read this book. That says a lot. One: this book is a very easy read. Two: it's written well and kept me reading so I could do it in a very short time. Not many technical bo...

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Yesterday, this question popped back into my brain. It's a question that was quite common during the early days of DITA adoption and one I answered quite simply back then. It helps the readers find content because they can phrase a query like, "Find all task topics about IP configuration". (I know very network geeky of me, but i...

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It's been quiet here since my last post, but there's a lot of activity going on in the office. ISO certification and ramping up a few client projects have kept the fingers going. Also, I'm trying to commit some of my personal time to working on a novel. Add to that the fact that I've been knee-deep in XSLT the past few weeks and you get the pi...

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I'm not a programmer, though I was one in a different life. Why do I mention this? Because I'm currently working a project that is returning me to those roots. What am I working on? I'm converting content from one format to DITA. Why? Because a client requires it and doing this sort of thing piques my curiosity. I'd doing the tr...

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