Writing good documentation is assisted by writing good code in the first place. The better the code, the less work it should take to document it. User martianE points out the different role ...

Software documentation — the resources that explain how software works and how to use it — has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plaintext, ...

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You promise yourself you’ll “clean up the docs later.” Then a new hire Slacks you at 10:47 p.m. asking how deployments work.

Well, I've taken on this project...writing lots of wiki-based documentation on business processes "supported" by a helluva complicated POS (non-linear) software tool. Problem is, the existing ...

Andy Oram posted his survey write-up on why people contribute documentation. Pretty interesting, but still a bit hard to quantify (says Andy himself.) I tend to think that people who write ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Implicit in the relationship between a writer and a reader is the request for attention. Through ...

GitHub just published its 2017 Open Source Survey. The popular social coding service surveyed over 5,500 members of its community, from over 3,800 projects on github.com. It also spoke to 500 coders ...