Best Wishes to everyone for a great New Year 2010! This picture was taken when my wife and I visited Jamaica over the Christmas weekend (near Ocho Rios). If you ever do visit a Latin American country or Carribean island like Jamaica, be sure to plan out your trip before hand. So, that way, if [...]

Education is a great thing. Ultimately, it serves two purposes. First, education aims to give you good theoretical knowledge about the world in which we live. This can be seen as you study history, the arts, languages, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and subjects like these. On the other hand, education aims to give you good practical [...]

Literate Programming is a concept introduced by Computer Scientist Donald Knuth who once wrote that “I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title: Literate Programming. Let us change our traditional attitude to [...]

For Christmas, my wife got me the well-known CD by the band “Green Day” called “American Idiot”. It is a really great CD and reminds me of my college days and fraternity parties rocking out to bands like “The Ramones”. Not only that, the album and song tell us something important – that Americans are [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Google bases its directory on the Open Directory Project data located at DMOZ (http://www.dmoz.com). So, yes, Google adds its own unique algorithms to help you with your searches, however, a great majority of this data comes from DMOZ. So, check it out. DMOZ currently has over four millions [...]

Even though I am a big fan of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and essentially all Wiki sites, Google also has a “definitions” tool that is worth mentioning: The Google Dictionary. Simple type into your browser the following URL: http://www.google.com/dictionary Enter the word for which you need a definition and “voila” there you have it Cheers, Keith Visit [...]

One of the most important characteristics of a Technical Writer is his or her dedication to study and research. In fact, I would say that as much as 75% of my time may be classified as study and research. This means that I am studying an application, its technical and business requirements, and the testing [...]

At this time of the year, at least in the United States, national holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas are the focus of attention and this is a time where friends and family reconnect after time apart. This past week, during Thanksgiving break, my wife, son, and I visited my parents who live in Connecticut. It [...]

What is a CHM? It stands for Compiled HTML Help Format, and is a common format used to create online help files. CHM is proprietary from Microsoft, so if you have Adobe Robohelp, then you must download from the Microsoft website the add-on for Adobe Robohelp to include CHM. Once this is done, if you [...]