Dan Allen
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013
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.
Presentations
Easier Documentation, Simpler Websites, Faster Collaboration
Do you want people to use your software, service or website? Do you want people to respond to your call to action? Do you want to be heard? Naturally. Do you find producing and collaborating on that content a constant hassle? Don't we all.
The key to creating an effective message and scaling it to a broad audience is writing it down, not in a transient medium like e-mail, but rather as documentation. “Ugh, documentation. Writing documentation is hard and boring!” Think again.
Think about all the e-mail you write? What if creating documentation could be as simple and fluent as e-mail? It can be! Imagine if you could collaborate on it the same way you do with code. I think you see where this is going.
In this workshop, we'll work with you to reduce the friction of creating content by simplifying your content workflow, teaching you how to collaborate more efficiently and help make writing and publishing enjoyable. You'll learn about tools and techniques that lighten your documentation workload and jump start your content strategy. Let's reboot documentation and get your message to resonate!
Drop the Angled Brackets. Discover the Zen of Writing (Ascii)Docs.
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!