This week, my blog was hacked because the server company I use (Media Temple) was hacked and more specifically, WordPress blogs like mine were injected with some aggressive and hostile code that forced me to clean up my database, but unfortunately, when I went to my site while it was hacked, a lethal spyware was [...]
As I learn how to use Document! X to document assemblies, components, and databases, I turn to the Help tab within Document! X. It is truly helpful. It is well designed and truly written to help the new software user. The welcome page gives you a few brief video tutorials to get you started. After [...]
The very best features of Document X! 2010 are embedded in its ability to read code written in the Microsoft .NET development environment and produce a meaningful and insightful document about such code. First, Document X! creates a great .NET assembly summary. According to Wikipedia, a .NET assembly is “a partially compiled code library for [...]
Dear Readers: Over the next few weeks, I will be reviewing a program called Document X (here at Great Documents), developed by a software company called Innovasys from the UK. As a Technical Writer, I am always in search of better ways to document source code as well as create more insightful user guides. Currently, [...]
This post is dedicated to Chapter 4 of Joan Lambert’s book Windows 7 Step by Step, published by Microsoft Press. What I would like to discuss in this post is Chapter 4 which tells you about (1) working with Windows, (2) understanding files, folders, and libraries, (3) finding your way around the computer, (4) connecting [...]
On page 24 of W7 Step by Step, in Chapter 1: Explore Windows 7, the authors give the reader a most valuable table that they can print out and keep with them as they use Windows 7. Essentially this table summarizes the most vital keyboard shortcuts which allow for diverse operations to take place within [...]
In the same way that a waterfall survives many hundreds of years, just like the image above, so “the waterfall process” of software development survives generations of software development and technological change. Essentially, in my fifteen years of software development experience, there are four “tiers” which a software program much pass on its journey to [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I will be covering, this summer, a great book released by Microsoft Press. It is entitled “Windows 7: Step by Step”. For those of you who have decided to go with Microsoft Windows 7 for your computer’s operating system (OS), this is a book that will help you [...]
Documentation is always considered important by organizations. At the same time, few people enjoy spending time to actually create meaningful and helpful documentation. Our world today is on the move. However, like the age-old expression goes “haste makes waste”, the very same holds true for documentation. There are many people creating, developing, testing, and implementing [...]
Today, I would like to simply re-mention a book that I have already discussed on this blog. It is worth a second mention. In fact, if I had to recommend one book to someone who wants to learn more about computers, computer science, programming, systems, and electronics, it is this book: Code: The Hidden Language [...]
