GitHub just published its 2017 Open Source Survey. The popular social coding service surveyed over 5,500 members of its community, from over 3,800 projects on github.com. It also spoke to 500 coders ...

Generative AI tools are putting a new spin on the age-old chore of writing and consuming technical documentation. The key is ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In Ye Olden Days, I was a COBOL programmer, working on a Unisys E1100 system with a CODASYL ...

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Software documentation — the resources that explain how software works and how to use it — has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plaintext, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Implicit in the relationship between a writer and a reader is the request for attention. Through ...

As an IT professional, you’ve probably spent countless hours staring at a blank document, trying to craft the perfect software documentation. We’ve all been there and the project is demanding much of ...

Organizations and corporations of all kinds use documents to convey messages both internally and externally. For an organization to stay efficient, it must develop mechanisms for controlling and ...

Andy Oram posted his survey write-up on why people contribute documentation. Pretty interesting, but still a bit hard to quantify (says Andy himself.) I tend to think that people who write ...