One of the writers on my team, McLean Schofield, recently returned from a week at Tech·Ed 2006 in Boston. He went to help the product team ( Visual Studio Tools for Office ) in the demo booth and to talk with customers about their experiences with the...

There has been a lot of discussion on the Web since the announcement of the MSDN Wiki. I talked with Molly Bostic, a PM on the team that created the wiki, about what MSDN Wiki is, why it was created, what the plans for the future are, and how it affects...

Tokens are markers that we can use in the documentation to represent product and feature names that might change, and reusable text that we don't want to type manually in a bunch of topics. When the build team converts the XML source files into the final...

It was review day for writers and editors, so we spent some time writing up our accomplishments for the year. I asked my manager, Christa Carpentiere, about what makes a good writer, editor, and manager. This podcast is 2 MB in size, and is 4 minutes...

In this short podcast I talk about how I try to preserve the author's voice while still making it fit into the consistent Microsoft developer documentation writing style. The file is 2 MB in size, and is 4 minutes, 6 seconds long. Download the podcast