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Presentation: Intro to DITA

DITA is a rapidly emerging standard for authoring technical information in XML. It enables companies to more easily create, reuse, and exchange structured content, while minimizing the total cost of ownership of tools.

Attached are slides from our Sept ‘05 program meeting: Intro_to_DITA_v4.pdf. The meeting presenters included Paul Prescod and Su-Laine Yeo. Paul Prescod is the Group Program Manager for XMetaL at Blast Radius. As such, he describes the requirements for upcoming products in the XMetaL family. Paul has been very involved in the development and promotion of new standards. He worked within the XML Working Group of the World Wide Web consortium to develop the XML family of standards and co-wrote the most popular book on that family of standards: The XML Handbook. Today, Paul is an active member of the DITA Technical Committee. Paul holds a Bachelor of Math and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Su-Laine Yeo, Interaction Design Specialist, Blast Radius XMetaL, works with writers to define excellence in professional authoring tools. Since joining Blast Radius, Su-Laine has designed user interfaces for the XMetaL Reviewer product and for the XMetaL DITA implementation. She has worked in the software development industry since 1996 as a technical communicator, usability specialist, and interaction designer.

PHP Resources

From the April 2006 Program Meeting: A PHP Primer For Technical Writers - with Peter Gordon

Hello STC people,thanks again for having me in your group for my php talk.
There was a request for links to more resources about php, and below is at very least, a good start about where to find ‘stuff’, programming being basically the craft of doing ‘things’ with ‘stuff’...please see the following [list of php related websites]...and cheers!
PG

php sites for tutorials, reviews

• Vancouver PHP Users
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/
• http://www.phpit.net/
• http://www.elroubio.net/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/
• http://www.thesitewizard.com/
• http://www.phpdeveloper.org/
• http://www.phparch.com/
• http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/php/
• http://www.phpbuilder.com/
• http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/
• http://www.devshed.com/c/b/PHP/
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/programming/php/

Content Management systems

• http://moodle.org/
• http://www.phpbb.com/
• http://drupal.org/
• http://wordpress.org/
• http://phpadsnew.com/two/

Software tools

• http://www.mysql.com/
• http://www.sqlite.org/index.html
• http://www.apache.org/
• http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
• http://lamppix.tinowagner.com/

Internet News

• http://slashdot.org/
• http://news.netcraft.com/

Scripts, etc

• http://freshmeat.net
• http://sourceforge.net/
• http://pear.php.net/
• http://www.phpclasses.org

Web developer Peter Gordon is a board member of the Vancouver PHP Users Association, which holds monthly meetings on topics of interest to the web development community. He has been developing PHP sites for over 5 years. Some of Peter’s recent sites include The Take, HoweStreet.com and 12midnite.com.

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