References for TC Dojo Talk 8/6/2018 Webinar
All of these were mentioned the WEBINAR: Using Open Source Platforms to Gain Knowledge for a Professional Advantage.
See O-NET OnLine Summary Report for Technical Writers for information about Technial Writing and its future growth.
Open Source
Stack Overflow Survey Links
Stack Overflow Documentation
Opensource Surveys
Social Coding Services
GitHub and Bitbucket have a public, cloud version and enterprise versions for companies that want to use it privately.
- GitHub Recently purchased by Microsoft
- Bitbucket Owned by Atlassian the company that makes JIRA and Confluence among other things.
- Glitch
- Gerrit Developed by Google.
Version Control software
Social code services rely you having a source control software package on your local machine. By far the most popular is Git.
- Git Source Control Management (SCM)
- Mercurial SCM Not as popular as Git but works with Bitbucket.
- List of resources for learning Git
- Interactive online tutorial that requires no install
Authoring environment
- Atom, a free open source ASCII editor
- Sublime, a popular paid ASCII editor
- Original, Markdown creator
- Markdown flavors
- GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec
- Ranked list of static file generator software
- GitHub Pages + Jeykll for fast blog
- Lightweight Markup Languages: This Is Why You Should Use AsciiDoc Over Regular Markdown Not an endorsement of AsciiDoc.