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
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An Interview with Noz Urbina on Congility 2014
Last week I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with Noz Urbina, head of Urbina Consulting and the chief organizer (along with the folks at Mekon) of the Congility conference and workshops happening shortly in Gatwick, U.K. later this June. We talked about what exactly “Congility” is and what to expect from thisRead More
Specializing Conref Target Topics to Avoid Spaghetti Code
While doing some DITA training recently for a client I ran across an idea that struck me as being a good way to avoid spaghetti code. In retrospect, it’s one of those obvious “why didn’t I think of that?” ideas: a specialized topic just for holding conref-able text. But first, I ought to explain whyRead 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
DITA Constraints Presentation
For reasons relating to work and incidentally for a presentation I am working on for the Baltimore DITA conference in April, I am trying to learn the practicalities of implementing DITA constraints. (For a list of the reasons why constraints are good, see this nice summary on Tagsmiths). Am currently plowing through the pertinent sectionRead More