Writing good documentation is assisted by writing good code in the first place. The better the code, the less work it should take to document it. User martianE points out the different role ...

Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But your documentation should be great for non-developers too. When software moved online, so did the documentation. Today, hosted ...

A coalition of tech companies announced today the launch of Open Web Docs, a new initiative to help write documentation for Web APIs, JavaScript, and other web tooling and platforms. The new project ...

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 ...

This month marks a year since I took on my current and most technical role of my career. I didn’t intend to keep it a secret. Really, it just didn’t factor much into my writing. By this point, I’m ...

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 ...

Agile development has been very effective at reducing the need for extensive, ponderous documentation. However, this methodology has not done away with the need for Agile project documentation ...

When I was a wet-behind-the-ears Unix user and programmer, the go-to response to any tech question was RTFM, which stands for "Read the F… Fine Manual." Unfortunately, this hasn't changed for the ...

The state of documentation and why it’s failing IT and users Your email has been sent Because of what I do, official documentation is something I have to depend on daily. Given the bulk of my writing ...