Blog Index

summary

An index of Eric Armstrong's blog posts and related papers published at a variety of sites. (In reality, this is an "article index", since I generally post articles, rather than diary entries.)

Categories

• Professional Blog Posts
  • Collaboration
  • DITA
  • Java
  • Ruby/JRuby
  • Technology
  • Web Publishing
• Other Posts
  • Personal
  • Social

Professional Blog Posts

Collaboration

• Fuzzy Authorship: A Mechanism to Motivate and Reward Collaboration
• Wikis, Docs, and the Reuse Proposition
• Online Document Collaboration
• DITA, XDocs, and Online Collaboration with the Open Source Community
• Enabling Collaborative Design-and-Decision Discussions, Online
• Do We Really Need Structured Document Formats? (Is Real Reuse Possible?)
• Structured Document Formats, Part II

DITA

• Information Architecture and Planning
• Creating Topics: Where do you Draw the Line?
• DITA OT Customization
• Modular Docs Part 1: Why You Want Modular, Topic-Oriented Documentation
• Modular Docs Part 2: DITA vs. DocBook
  
• Domain Specific Language "PowerTools" Promote Elegance
• Wikis, Docs, and the Reuse Proposition
• Building a Bridge: DITA, DocBook, and ODF
• Build-to-Order Docs--Today!
• Build-to-Order Documents with DITA
• DITA: One Cool Document Format
• Automated Code-Inclusions in DITA
• XDocs: One Cool CMS
• Online Document Collaboration
• Using JRuby for DITA builds
• DITA, XDocs, and Online Collaboration with the Open Source Community
• Enabling Collaborative Design-and-Decision Discussions, Online
• Doing DITA Builds Better
• Do We Really Need Structured Document Formats? (Is Real Reuse Possible?)
• Structured Document Formats, Part II
• The Value of Semantic Tags
  
• Highlights of the 2008 DITA/CMS Conference
  
• SVDIG Notes: AirHelp and DITA File Names
• My Apache WebDAV/Windows Nightmare

Java

• JavaOne 2008, Day Four: Wrap Up and Awards
• JavaOne 2008, Day Three: Riding the Rails
• JavaOne 2008, Day Two: JRuby, Rails, and NetBeans
• JavaOne 2008, Day One: Conference 2.0 and JRuby Notes
• JavaOne 2008, Day Zero: Community Day, Development Tools
• JavaOne 2008, Day Minus One: Non-Profit Networking & Horrible Hotel
   
• JavaOne 2007, #4: Wrapup
• JavaOne 2007, #3: Mashup a Web App with Little or No Code
• JavaOne 2007, #2: Making Web Apps Easy
• JavaOne 2007, #1: Java Client Apps the Easy Way

Ruby/JRuby

• Domain Specific Language "PowerTools" Promote Elegance
• Why I want a Ruby version of <Project-X> (Artima)
• Using Java Classes in JRuby 
• JRuby: What I Need to Know
• Using JRuby for DITA builds
• Doing DITA Builds Better
• Why I like Ruby: String Interpolation & "here" docs

Technology

• Docs Aren't Code
• Wish List for Open Source Docs
• PermaLinks, Purple Numbers, and the Semantic Web
• Designing an Intuitive Interface
• BlogJet Blogging Client
• Using the ScribeFire Blogging Client
• Daisy: WYSIWYG Wiki for PDF Books
• My Experience with Daisy: Installation and First Use

Web Publishing

• Generating Sexy HTML from DITA, using Ruby, DreamWeaver, Javascript, and JSP
  A multi-part blog to be published at __TBD__

Other Posts

Personal

• About Eric
• Debra Scott: Best Executive/Manager
• Memorial Epilog: The Wind in the Trees
• Memorial Service for a Friend
• Got a road bike! (And found a great store)

Social 

• Cut Payoll, Save Jobs
• Towards a Coherent Voting Advice System
• Taking the Money Out of Politics
• J.K. Rowling Does it Again