Friday, February 26, 2010

Daily scrum article

Not related to technical communication, but related to working in the field: It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings, an excellent article by Martin Fowler on Agile practices.

Online team collaboration

Interesting links: LumoFlow and Basecamp. FWIW, for companies with distributed teams.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Writing for web apps

These books were recommended on the techwr-l mailing list by Stuart Burnfield. Must remember to check them out. The first one at least is familiar by repute.
  • Read Me First: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry
    by Sun Technical Publications
  • Web application design handbook: best practices for web-based software
    by Susan L. Fowler, Victor R. Stanwick
  • Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works
    by Ginny Redish

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Changed blog title

I changed the blog title to match the URL, otherwise things get confusing...

Bad Language

Bad Language: a blog about writing. I find this post oddly appropriate right now.