Interview with Claude Vedovini (Part 2)

Claude Vedovini, the developer behind the DITA Open Platform, offers some thoughts about trends on the Web such as cloud computing, the usefulness of social networks when starting a small business, and Amazon S3.

You can listen to Part [...]

Interview with Claude Vedovini (Part 1)

Claude Vedovini is the developer behind the DITA Open Platform. In Part 1, we talk about the DITA OP and other aspects of DITA in general.

You can listen to Part 1 here.

Later, I’ll post Part 2 of our interview in which Claude offers some thoughts about trends on the Web such as cloud computing, the usefulness [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Earlier in the week, I interviewed Claude Vedovini, a developer living in Switzerland. I was not only interested in Claude’s development of the DITA Open Platform but with where he sees technology heading. (I’ll post this interview soon.) While talking with him, I was reminded of a fantastic video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural [...]

Interview with Eliot Kimber on Commercial Publishing with DITA

I recorded an interview with Eliot Kimber earlier this month. Eliot is fluent in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, DTD development, XSD Schema, XPath, XQuery, XInclude, Xlink, and other standards that relate to information management and publishing. He has worked with a number of Really Strategies’ customers including McGraw Hill, SAGE Publications, and Audible. Eliot contributes to Really [...]

Content Management of DITA with Subversion

In his article, Getting Started [with DITA] as Cheaply as Possible, Eliot Kimber puts together a very impressive manifest of component pieces to a free or low-cost DITA content management system (CMS). This recipe has helped many small-to-medium sized companies realize a systematic, extensible approach to document management. It has also helped larger companies as they [...]

Web Conferencing

Recently new Web conferencing products have emerged that have caught my eye for use among members of this site. With Web conferencing added to the DXCR mix, we can have real-time talks with local and national guest speakers. Dimdim looks interesting because it requires no download for those joining a session, features desktop sharing and whiteboard, [...]

Reboot

Julie Baldwin at Sybase Inc., founder of the Boulder-Denver DITA User Group in Summer of 2006, did a fantastic job of establishing a regional network of writers, developers and managers interested in DITA and XML; organizing guest-speaker presentations; and archiving these presentations. Taming Media picks up, at least in part, where Boulder-Denver DITA User Group [...]