Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter
February/March 2005
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Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter February/March 2005 |
The March meeting is on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, from 6:00 pm
to 8:30 pm at the Elephant & Castle in San Francisco's financial
district. For details about the location and instructions for
purchasing tickets, visit www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm.
NOTE: During the networking hour, we will be displaying award winning
entries from the Willamette Valley Chapter's 2004-2005 Technical
Publications, Technical Art, and Online Communication. Award winners
include entries from the Learning Products department at Advent
Software, Inc., under the direction of chapter member Stewart Florsheim.
This presentation looks at sample applications, tutorials, and other kinds of instructional code that can be leveraged to write an API programmer's guide.
James Bisso, M.A., has almost 20 years of experience writing API
documentation for such companies as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Inprise,
and Taligent. He has also taught computer science and documenting APIs
at UC Berkeley Extension, Golden Gate University, Mills College, and
the University of San Francisco. James has also been a corporate
trainer for Oracle University and Bitzone LLC. He is currently CTO of
Bitzone LLC.
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