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Lightning talks - Day 2

Lightningat Write the Docs Prague 2014 · 2014-09-08..09-09· [developer-experience]
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Quick specifics: a five‑minute sketching workflow uses lines and boxes plus paper pens and a wall to iterate cheap ugly ideas before prototyping; error messages should state what went wrong/why, the consequences, and actionable fixes, avoid apologies and link to docs; a service called Dor renders templates (from GitHub or forms) to generate Sphinx projects on demand — server side templating that returns files; documentation culture at one company uses Confluence plus a conditional content macro and a versioning plugin to mimic feature branches; pick a beginner language with local support — community matters.

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  1. 0:00Sketching
  2. 5:11Focus on users
  3. 8:35Documentation automation
  4. 13:44Documentation communication
  5. 21:51Conditional content
  6. 24:49Learning to program
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