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Organizations and corporations of all kinds use documents to convey messages both internally and externally. For an organization to stay efficient, it must develop mechanisms for controlling and ...

GitHub just published its 2017 Open Source Survey. The popular social coding service surveyed over 5,500 members of its community, from over 3,800 projects on github.com. It also spoke to 500 coders ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Implicit in the relationship between a writer and a reader is the request for attention. Through ...

Software documentation — the resources that explain how software works and how to use it — has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plaintext, ...

In March 2010, Foursquare was riding high, one of the coolest social startups of the day, with gobs of fresh venture capital and a million people using its mobile app to check in. And then, on March ...

As an IT professional, you’ve probably spent countless hours staring at a blank document, trying to craft the perfect software documentation. We’ve all been there and the project is demanding much of ...

Andy Oram posted his survey write-up on why people contribute documentation. Pretty interesting, but still a bit hard to quantify (says Andy himself.) I tend to think that people who write ...

So you’ve written that killer servlet, and now it’s been discovered. Congratulations! But alas, your inbox is flooded with messages: What do the parameters mean? What beans does the servlet put in the ...