A long time ago, people were bitching about Hungarian notation in code. Its a rediculous convention perpetrated by Microsoft in the early nineties. During some debates on a mozilla newsgroup, circa 1999, I made this comment:
prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat’s artThe adjBig nProblem?
Well, I had no idea how this goofy statement had been passed around. […]
So since I’ve been techwriting for a few months, and hating life with FrameMaker, I decided to see what open source alternatives were available out there.
The other day I happened upon DocBook. I had heard mention of it many times before but didn’t really get what it is. Here’s what it seems to be: […]
So in my DocBook exploration, I’ve discovered the beauty of sgml mode on Xemacs. If only I could get it to do validation. For that, I needed nsgmls, which is a part of James Clark’s SP package. But it turns out he’s all but abandoned it and the OpenJade group has taken up the cause […]
This morning I got a private e-mail in response to bug 178809. It went something like this…
Disclaimer: I do not speak for mozilla.org. I do not even claim to represent the views of any other mozilla developer other than myself.
I wrote:
>Reporters, and people on the CC: If anyone wants this bug fixed, they’re
> going to […]
I’ve been doing some contract work at Macromedia and learned a few things about the documentation process. I’ve also discovered a fantastic tool that Macromedia created, LiveDocs.
I’ll write more about some of the techwriting process that I think Mozilla could adapt, but I wanted to post about LiveDocs because it is so simple, but so […]
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