Today I am pleased to say that the Companies Using DITA listing has now hit a total of 400 firms and organizations world-wide that have in some way publicly-stated that they are using DITA XML in their documentation efforts. The information comes from a variety of sources, including conference listings, customer references by CMS manufacturers,Read More
Summer is here and what better time to learn more about DITA XML? 😉 Okay, maybe that’s not for everyone, but this series of webinars hosted by easyDITA look to be an interesting way to while away a lunchtime. Unfortunately I came into this information a bit late (busy with work!), but there are aRead More
Sorry I have not been updating things here as regularly in the past — I have recently taken on a new role at a new company and I have been crazy busy (and enjoyably so!) of late. I promise that you can look forward to more posts and updates to the other pages on thisRead More
The following is a (hopefully) comprehensive list of all DITA XML-related videos being hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. As you can see there’s plenty of videos on all sorts of DITA-related topics out there, ranging from how to use DITA in various editors (including FrameMaker, oXygen and XMetaL), tutorials on DITA, a few DITA-based CMSesRead More
In addition to Bob Beims and Colin Maudry who were willing to go on the record, I got replies back from a few other people in the semiconductor industry as well, but they asked to remain anonymous in their replies. They have no objection to their responses being posted, they just can’t have their namesRead More
When asking around the contacts I have in the semiconductor industry about DITA, one other person willing to go on the record was Colin Maudry from NXP. He works for NXP out of its Eindhoven office in The Netherlands, and is a DITA Specialist overseeing the migration of their documentation team over to DITA XML.Read More
One of the more active OASIS DITA Technical Subcommittees (TC) is that lead by a coalition of semiconductor firms seeking to extend DITA to cover the specific needs of this industry segment. Recent developments at OASIS strongly hint that this additional, separate DITA specialization will become officially available when DITA 1.3 is released. As IRead More
The folks at Stilo are sponsoring another free webinar that looks at how to prepare your content prior to any conversion work being done on it. It builds upon the previous webinar in their “Stilo DITA Knowledge Series” they ran last month, and like that one will also be hosted by Jacquie Samuels. I amRead More
Sometimes there’s a flood of information that is DITA-related that happens all at the same time. Today just happens to be one of those days. Here’s a quick run-through of some DITA items of note: Book Release: DITA Metrics 101 Mark Lewis’ new DITA Metrics 101 book was officially launched at the Intelligent Content conferenceRead More
Last month Anders Svensson proposed setting up a dedicated Q&A forum specific to DITA XML on StackExchange. He suggested this to members of the popular DITA-related forums on Yahoo and LinkedIn, and people responded enthusiastically to the idea. The staging area is called “Area 51” and is still in the developing stage, having finished gatheringRead More
