Weekly Round-up: Beautiful Code Examples, Bad Content Reviews, Robot Speak, and More
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Weekly Round-up: Beautiful Code Examples, Bad Content Reviews, Robot Speak, and More
This week's top story from our blog: "Export Beautiful Code Examples from Confluence to PDF"
Export Beautiful Code Examples from Confluence to PDF
Great news for developer documentation that is managed collaboratively in Confluence: Our add-on Scroll PDF Exporter now supports syntax highlighting of code examples for exported PDF documents. Read more
The Future of Techcomm is Marketing
Scott Abel's inspiring LavaCon presentation on how marketing has changed, and how technical communication is evolving: "Today, whatever works is marketing. And what works is post-purchase content." Read more
Bad Reviews
Are your reviews of technical documentation as good as they could be? David Farbey dabbled into such a "bad review" that every tech writer knows: "It does nothing to move you closer to being ready for publication." Read more
Microsoft’s “No More Robot Speak” in Action
As Microsoft moves away from "robot speak" in its user documentation, Ellis Pratt has spotted some examples of less formal voice for Microsoft's technical content – e.g. "Almost there" instead of "Please wait". Read more
How to Meet Your Documentation Deadlines
This kid has got it! Our content management add-ons for Confluence allow technical writers to keep pace with development teams. And what about you? ;-)
Did you miss something in this collection? What blew your mind this week?
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