One of the final technical communications conferences in the fall is the biggest: tcworld which draws in over 4,000 attendees, mostly from Germany and across Europe. I came to the conference with some trepidation given that, last year, DITA experts and vendors attending the show got a largely frosty reception, with German CCMS vendors bonding togetherRead More
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Don Day and Michael Priestley on the Beginnings of DITA: Part 1
As a way to celebrate what was the 10th anniversary of the DITA standard in 2015, I did a series of interviews with people who were there at the very beginning. Two of these key people were (and are) Don Day and Michael Priestley. Formerly with IBM, Don Day is now a DITA and XMLRead More
Five Takeaways from DITA Festa Japan 2015
[This blog post was originally published on the IXIASOFT website on December 10, 2015. It is reproduced here with permission]. Last week I had the honor of presenting the keynote at DITA Festa Tokyo 2015. Here are a few things I learned while I was there: 1. There is significant interest in DITA within Japan.Read More
3 Things I Learned at tekom tcworld 2015
[This blog post was originally published on the IXIASOFT website on November 19, 2015. It is reproduced here with permission] 1. tcworld is the largest technical communications conference in the world Actually I knew this fact when heading over to Stuttgart, Germany, but it really only hit home when I first saw the conference hall.Read More
Gnostyx DITA 1.2 (and 1.3) Demonstration Documents
While there are a lot of code snippets and demos that look at aspects of writing DITA, it is still exceedingly rare to find good, publicly-available source code examples of entire documents written in DITA. That’s why I thought it worth mentioning Gnostyx‘s recent posting to GitHub: a demonstration document written in DITA, with aRead More
What I Learned at DITA Europe 2014
DITA Europe 2014 was held November 18th – 19th in Munich, Germany. The conference was a great opportunity to connect with other DITA users to share our experiences, knowledge and developments in the world of DITA. Slow but steadily growing DITA usage in Europe I had the honour of co-presenting this year’s keynote alongside JoAnnRead More
Interview with Noz Urbina & Free Ticket Offer to Congility 2013
Sorry I have not been updating things here as regularly in the past – I have recently taken on a new role at a new company and I have been crazy busy (and enjoyably so!) of late. I promise that you can look forward to more posts and updates to the other pages on thisRead More
Countdown to the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference
There’s just a few days to go before the big Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in La Jolla, California. Am looking forward to presenting the keynote talk there, and to meet with other people in the industry and learn about the latest developments in DITA and technical documentation practice in general. I have learnedRead More
Upcoming DITA Books
As DITA matures there are more books being written on the subject, aimed at technical writers looking to learn and use it effectively. There are a number of “first generation” titles already out, and I think it’s about time that we see some new entries in the marketplace. Here are some upcoming titles that IRead More
DITA 1.2 Presentation at the Content Management Strategies 2010 Conference
This presentation was one of the highlights of the conference for me, as most of the people responsible for driving the new DITA 1.2 specification were there to talk about what they had come up with. Starting off the panel in the same way that he would normally be speaking with this group Don DayRead More