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		<title>Is there such a thing as a &#8220;Programmer/Writer&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent discussion thread on LinkedIn, someone asked for opinions about the job description for a vacancy for a  &#8220;Programmer/Writer&#8221;. Was it possible they asked, for someone to be both a software programmer and a technical writer? Was it true that only someone who was a programmer could understand software well enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best place for a tech writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent most of my tech writing career working with product development teams in software and other hi-tech industries. It is what I enjoy doing. It&#8217;s what I do best. And I have come to the conclusion that it&#8217;s not the best place to be.
That conclusion may surprise other tech writers, and it did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Default Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Barker, in his book Writing Software Documentation, uses the term “the default manual” to describe a user’s guide that is organised according to features, rather than tasks. This sort of user’s guide has a chapter for each menu in a software program, and a section for each command. (For hardware, which Barker’s book doesn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last, some consideration for users</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I work extensively with companies developing computer software and hardware, I am proud to be a member of the British Computer Society (the BCS). I receive regular emails and magazines and occasionally attend local meetings. This week an email newsletter alerted me to a blog by John Morris on the BCS web site entitled [...]]]></description>
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