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Stop SOPA/PIPA

Richard Hamilton — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:38:05 +0000

XML Press is joining the one-day Stop SOPA blackout. We will black out our site on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, in support of the effort to block the SOPA (H.R.3261 – Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (S.968 – PROTECT IP Act of 2011) bills, both of which are currently under consideration in the [...]

Two chances to win a copy of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

Richard Hamilton — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:07:21 +0000

Who is the girl on the cover?

She is the hero of the book. She is a technical communicator extraordinaire. Let’s dub her X for now. When you read the book, you will follow X as she sets up a Confluence wiki and adds a technical documentation space. Learn from her expertise with [...]

XML Press Authors Among Most Influential Tech Comm Leaders

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:53:33 +0000

Congratulations to XML Press authors Anne Gentle (@annegentle) and Char James-Tanny (@CharJTF) for being recognized by MindTouch as being among the Top Ten Tech Comm Influencers in 2011.

It’s also great to see XML Press (@xmlpress), Sarah Maddox (@sarahmaddox), Alan Porter (@alanjporter), and Richard Hamilton (@richardhamilton) on MindTouch’s list of 401 Tech Comm Influencers. [...]

Coming Soon: Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:06:03 +0000

In February, 2012, we will be publishing Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate by Sarah Maddox. If you want to know how to use a wiki for technical documentation (and you like chocolate), this is the book for you.

Sarah Maddox is well-known in the technical communication community for her widely read blog (ffeathers) and for [...]

Doc Plan Template in Microsoft Word Format

Richard Hamilton — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:10:33 +0000

A reader requested a Microsoft Word version of the documentation plan template from Managing Writers, so I created one and posted it on the Documentation Template page, which also has DocBook and PDF versions of the template.

The template, which is one of the most popular links on our site, is freely available. [...]

XML Press Newsletter — Fall, 2011

Richard Hamilton — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:38:26 +0000

The latest edition of the XML Press Newsletter is now available in HTML and PDF formats. This edition talks about XML Press at the LavaCon conference, which is being held November 13-16, 2011 in Austin, TX, and a new article on The Content Wrangler from XML Press author, Richard Hamilton.

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Optimizing VBA Code: Part Two: Loops

Robert Delwood — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:17:53 +0000

This is part two of “Optimizing VBA Code.” You do not need to read Part One: Variables to use the information in this article, but I hope you do. The material in both articles is derived from my book, The Secret Life of Word. This article is also available in PDF form.

This article looks [...]

Optimizing VBA Code: Part One: Variables

Robert Delwood — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:36:14 +0000

This is the first in a series of articles about optimizing VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code. The information here is drawn from my book, The Secret Life of Word: A Professional Writer’s Guide to Microsoft Word Automation. This article is also available in PDF form

VBA is known to be a slow language. Often [...]

Robert Delwood Interview

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:38:03 +0000

Robert Delwood, author of The Secret Life of Word: A Professional Writer’s Guide to Microsoft Word Automation, was interviewed by Robert Reynolds in the latest issue of sound.views, the newsletter of the Puget Sound Chapter of the STC.

The interview discusses Robert’s approach to Microsoft Word automation, and how he uses automation [...]

XML Press Newsletter — Summer, 2011

Richard Hamilton — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:01:10 +0000

The latest edition of the XML Press Newsletter is now available in HTML and PDF formats. This edition is devoted to three new releases:

Learning Author-it, by Char James-Tanny, The Secret Life of Word, by Robert Delwood, and The Boost C++ Libraries, by Boris Schäling. Newsletter Sign-up

You can sign up to receive occasional [...]