Drop the Angled Brackets. Discover the Zen of Writing (Ascii)Docs.
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
About this Presentation
Writing documentation is hard enough. Why do we insist on making it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors? Come learn how to achieve writing zen with AsciiDoc and use Asciidoctor to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents–or even a slide deck like the one used in this presentation!
What if you could write documentation just as you write email? Imagine if you could forget about the layout and styling and just let your thoughts flow. That's the idea behind lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc. They provide a plain text syntax designed for humans–easy to edit, read, version and share in raw form.
AsciiDoc goes further by satisfying even the most advanced technical semantics and publishing requirements. AsciiDoc is a capable shorthand alternative to DocBook and can produce beautiful HTML 5, ePub and PDF output–even slides!
Follow the lead of authors. Drop the angled bracket and discover the zen of writing docs with AsciiDoc.
Software Developer, Author and Open Source Advocate
Dan is an open source advocate, community catalyst, software generalist, author and speaker. Most of the time, he's hacking using some JVM language. He leads the Asciidoctor project and serves as the community liaison for Arquillian. He builds on these experiences to help make a variety of open source projects wildly successful, including Asciidoctor, Arquillian, Opal and JBoss Forge.
Dan is the author of Seam in Action (Manning, 2008) and has written articles for NFJS, the Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Java Tech Journal and JAXenter. He's also an internationally recognized speaker, having presented at major software conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, NFJS, UberConf, RWX, JAX and jFokus. He's recognized as a JavaOne Rock Star and Java (JVM) Champion.
After a long conference day, you'll likely find Dan geeking out about technology, documentation and testing with fellow community members over a Trappist beer or Kentucky Bourbon.