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By Alistair Christie - ITauthor.com
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Podcast Description
Talking about technical writing, software and technology in general. The ITauthor Podcast is an advert-free, irregularly published show by technical writers for technical writers or anyone interested in software documentation or IT generally.
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ITauthor podcast #36 – Acrobat and shared review of Web pages | ITauthor Podcast 36 - Acrobat and Shared Review of Web Pages - Looking for a better way of reviewing a WebHelp system brought it home to me how good Adobe Acrobat shared review is. I want something that does pretty much exactly the same thing but for ... | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #35 – On Crammond Island, thinking about technical writing | Took the dog for a walk and talked to myself about documentation. Crazy? Or just missing technical writing? Didn't have my camera with me, but I snapped these with my Blackberry: View Full Album Want to get emailed next time I publish a p... | 9/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #34 – Testing testing 123 | Test Manager Richard Paterson joins Graham Campbell and me over lunchtime sandwiches in a rather noisy office to talk about software testing. Technical writers in a software development department often feel like third-class citizens, | 5/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #33 – A history of RSS | Ever wondered how news and blog posts appear in Google Reader or how podcasts get onto your iPod? It's largely thanks to something called RSS. What does RSS stand for? Who invented it? What happened along the way? This podcast tells the story of RSS, | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #32 – Unscripted screencasts and Flare extensibility | ITauthor podcast #32 – Unscripted screencasts and Flare extensibility For this edition of the ITauthor podcast, I just turned the microphone on and started talking. So if ums and ahs annoy you, this podcast probably isn't for you! | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #31 – Matthew Ellison looks forward to the UA Europe Conference 2009 | ITauthor podcast #31 – Matthew Ellison looks forward to the UA Europe Conference 2009 Matthew Ellison runs his own UK-based training and consulting company, specializing in user assistance design and technology. | 5/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #30 – Being a technical writer | ITauthor podcast #30 – Being a technical writer The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. This time round – recorded over Skype – Graham and I discuss: * “technical author”, | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #29 – Twitter, Facebook and moving help from RoboHelp to Flare | ITauthor podcast #29 – Twitter, Facebook and moving help from RoboHelp to Flare The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. This time round – recorded over Skype – Graham and I discuss: | 5/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #28 – Professor Geoffrey Pullum and the Elements of Style | ITauthor podcast #28 – Professor Geoffrey Pullum and the Elements of Style Professor Geoffrey Pullum, Professor of Linguistics at University of Edinburgh, recently wrote an article called ‘50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice’ in the Chronicle of High | 4/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #27 – Rambling tech writer | ITauthor podcast #27 – Rambling tech writer I thought about calling this “the heavy breathing episode” because there’s a lot of puffing and panting in this recording: the puffing from me, the panting from my Italian Spinone, Lottie, | 4/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #26 – Colin Paterson (Part 1) | ITauthor Podcast #26: Interview with Colin Paterson - Part 1 - What's the difference between a programmer and a software developer? - Why are there so many programming languages? - What's .NET ("dot net")? | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #25 – Tech writer recruitment | ITauthor Podcast #25: Tech writer recruitment The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. This time round, Graham and I discuss the best way of interviewing technical writers. | 2/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #24 – Bid writing | ITauthor Podcast #24: Bid writing Tenders, proposals, bids – call them what you will, they’re not the standard output of a technical writer, but if you’re working for a company that wins contracts through a tendering process then you can expect to | 2/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #23 – Release notes | ITauthor Podcast #23: Release Notes They're a pain to produce, and we often feel like time spent doing the release notes is time wasted, when we could have been writing more important documentation. But I'd argue that release notes are among the most ... | 12/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #22 – Getting into the writing zone | ITauthor Podcast #22: Getting into the writing zone - The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. - On a recent StackOverflow podcast, a listener asked the presenters for tips on how to "get in the zone" as a programm... | 12/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #21 – Three generations of computer users (Part 2) | I wanted to find out how people of different generations use computers, what they use their computers for, how they use them and what they feel about computers and software generally. So who better to ask than three generations of women from my family. | 11/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #20 – The Mallcast | The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. - This extremely ad hoc podcast (we didn't plan it, but Graham offered to buy lunch, so it seemed like a good idea), was recorded in the food court at East Kilbride shopping ... | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #19 – Three generations of computer users (Part 1) | I wanted to find out how people of different generations use computers, what they use their computers for, how they use them and what they feel about computers and software generally. So who better to ask than three generations of women from my family. | 11/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #18 – ISTC Conference 2008 | Graham Campbell talks to attendees at this year’s ISTC (Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators) Conference in Nottingham. First, Graham talks to Mike Hamilton from MadCap Software about recent and future software releases and some of the .. | 10/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #17 – Mike Hamilton talks about Flare 4 | Recorded at the UA Conference Europe 2008. I talk to Mike Hamilton from Madcap Software about the newly released version 4 of Flare. He describes a lot of the new features and explains the relationship between Flare and Blaze. | 9/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #16 – Flare and Chrome, the pubcast | A lack of meeting rooms forced Graham and I to adjourn to the pub to record this podcast (shame). In between munching on burgers and chips and sipping on beer, we talk about Google’s new Web browser, Chrome, and the newly released Flare 4 from MadCap. | 9/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #15 – September 13th, 2008 – Virtual Machines | Virtual machines. What are they and why are they useful for a technical writer? - Get in touch! - I'd love to know who's listening, where you are and what you think of the podcast, so contact me at: comments==AT==itauthor==DOT==com | 9/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #14 – August 29th, 2008 – Documentation and Agile Software Development | What's it like doing documentation as part of an Agile software development team? Why is it a better way of working? I mull this over these and other questions with Graham Campbell. If you want to find out more about the Agile software development met... | 8/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #13 – August 20th, 2008 – Being the only tech writer | I talk to Graham Campbell about being the only technical writer at a software company. Graham describes his experience of being a year into tech writing and having his Documentation Manager (me) disappear off to do another job, | 8/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #12 – November 14th, 2007 – Ellis Pratt, Cherryleaf | Ellis Pratt is Sales and Marketing Director for UK documentation specialists, Cherryleaf. He joined me via Skype to talk about Cherryleaf and to discuss questions such as: What kind of skills do you need to be a technical writer? | 11/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #11 – October 31st, 2007 – Flare: the good stuff | As an antidote to podcast #10, which dwelt a bit heavily on problems in Madcap Flare, this time round I talk about some of the things I really like about Flare. - Get in touch! - I'd love to know who's listening, | 11/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #10 – October 24th, 2007 – Why do we use Flare? | So remind me: Why do we use Flare? In this podcast I talk to fellow technical writer Graham Campbell about Madcap Flare. Graham is relatively new to Flare but has been using Flare 3 in anger recently and went on a training course run by Mike Hamilton ... | 10/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #9 – May 27th, 2007 – What I look for in a tech author | What does it take to be a technical writer? What should you be looking for if you're recruiting a technical writer? In this podcast - recorded while driving home from work – I describe some of the skills and personality traits I expect in someone who . | 6/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #8 – May 19th, 2007 – The Dogcast | The dogcast (from an original idea by Tom Johnson). In this episode of the ITauthor podcast I puff and pant my way up the Pentland hills just outside Edinburgh, walking my dog, thinking back to my first impressions of computers and software, | 5/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor Podcast #7 – recorded 17 October 2006 | Tom Johnson is the creator of the technical writers’ podcast Tech Writer Voices. In this edition of the ITauthor podcast he talks to me about why he started up Tech Writer Voices and about the benefits of podcasts as a medium of technical communication. | 10/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ITauthor podcast #6 – recorded 03 October 2006 | Back after 6 months. I start off with a short recap of what’s been happening in tech authoring while I’ve been away. Most of this show is about DocBook and the DocBook XSL Stylesheets. More about DocBook at: http://en.wikipedia. | 10/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 05 – recorded 28 March 2006 | Warning This podcast weighs in at a whopping 1 hour 32 minutes! Next time round I’ll try to be more concise, and I’ll try to cut out some of the ums and ahs, which should slim things down considerably. - Sound quality | 3/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 04 – recorded Tuesday, 31 January 2006 | Rather like the difficult fourth album, this, the fourth itauthor podcast, has been long in the making. Well, actually the reason for the long gap between podcast 3 and this one is partly because of Christmas and partly because I just haven t got roun... | 1/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 03 – recorded Friday, 16 December 2005 | In which I talk about my attempt to upgrade Plone. For details of what I did (step by step) see: www.itauthor.com/authtools/plonezope/upgrading-to-2.1.1 | 12/16/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 02 – recorded Monday, 5 December 2005 | In which I break Russell Beattie s golden rule of podcasting by talking about podcasting. | 12/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My first podcast | I've got the day off today (using up my annual leave before the end of the year). So I decided to have a go at creating a podcast for myself. By the way, in yesterday's posting I said I was using Lemon, which "used to be called iPodder". Scratch that. | 12/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 36 Episodes |
