by: Bill Kerschbaum One of my favorite hobbies is cooking. Not because I like to cook (I hate it, actually), but because my wife likes to cook. It’s a wonderful activity that brings such rapturous pleasure to both cook and eater—especially if the hobbyist is as good as my wife is! So one day I [...]

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Since I do a few presentations each year, I constantly try to learn more about speaking in public. And, whenever possible, I try to apply those lessons to my writing — including my technical writing. It doesn’t always happen, but when it does I find myself growing as a writer. Lately, I’ve been reading a [...]

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Reading. It’s something that writers are expected to do. And many of them do just that, to varying degrees. Books, blogs, magazine articles, and more. Some of that reading is for professional development. Some if it is for pleasure. There’s been some discussion about this in the techcomm/writing blogosphere lately. Ivan Walsh blogged about it. [...]

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While we’re not the most prolific bloggers out there, Aaron and I do put a fair bit of content into this space each week. For a while there, we were putting up five posts a week plus a collection of links each Saturday. But work commitments, side projects, family (remember, Aaron became a dad a [...]

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It is called technical writing, isn’t it? And the writing part should definitely not be ignored. Here are a few of our posts on writing from the past year: Change your writing style to make your documentation more usable and user friendly Writing for screencasts Listen to the radio Write documentation as if writing for [...]

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I’ve been using an ebook reader for the last year and a bit. And, to be honest, it’s pretty rare for me to pick up a dead-trees book. In fact, I joke that when I do read a physical book I get confused trying to find the power button and the buttons to turn pages. [...]

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