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Technical Communication

Captivate Webinar Recording

by Matt Sullivan 08.16.2010 Captivate

As part of our twice-monthly series of webinars, I recently delivered an Introduction to Captivate 5 session. 2 quick notes about the recording: The 1st 7 minutes or so give you an insight to what a webinar looks like from the presenter’s view (I initiially shared the wrong screen!). So if that is offputting, jump to [...]

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25 Most Influential Bloggers in Tech Comm

roundpeg and Matt Sullivan named to 25 Best list

by Matt Sullivan 07.30.2010 About

Sometimes it’s just the little things… At roundpeg, it makes us proud to be included in the mindtouch list of  Top 25 Most Influential Bloggers in Technical Communications They even created a new moniker (MIB) and this cool badge of honor (which is nearly as great as the “Laurel, and Hearty Handshake” given to the sheriff [...]

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FrameMaker Webinar Recording

by Matt Sullivan 07.06.2010 FrameMaker
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Adobe FrameMaker Workflow and FrameMaker 9 Interface Presented by Matt Sullivan, roundpeg’s director of training on July 1, 2010 This 90 minute webinar has 3 sections, roughly 30 minutes each: Using FrameMaker for book publishing, and intro to the FrameMaker 9 interface Examples of FrameMaker features FrameMaker workflows and FrameMaker options  for PDF and help system [...]

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Free webinar series from roundpeg inc.

by Matt Sullivan 06.27.2010 Captivate

roundpeg hosts roughly 60 minute free webinars on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. They provide an overview of the technology, rather than the hands-on training experience of our classroom and e-learning training. These webinars are a great way to introduce new folks to base concepts or help with approvals for training budgets. Jump to registration for Flex [...]

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Open Source Flex Logger

by Darryl West 06.03.2010 Developing Rich Internet Applications

The Adobe Flex framework comes with it’s own logging system out of the box (mx.logging).   For the most part, it works fine but is difficult to extend, primarily as a result of the intertwined use of singletons (the anti-pattern).   Combine that with a desire to use an IoC framework” (Swiz in our case ) to [...]

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Client Spotlight: CS5 & Flex 4 for Academy of Art University

by Darryl West 05.22.2010 Client Spotlight

roundpeg, inc. recently delivered a large project for San Francisco’s Academy of Art code named Critique.  The application reads remote images submitted by students for instructor review.   The instructor has a set of drawing and annotation tools to enable markup and commenting on the student’s work.   Critique also supports audio record and playback to enable [...]

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OCSTC Presentation

by Matt Sullivan 02.16.2010 Connect and Presenter

Many thanks to the kind folks at the Orange County chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. As usual, the questions were great, and the time went quickly! If the above slidedeck is not available, you may download the .ppt at https://acrobat.com/#d=-Uds53klKV5hCyYsiAhOsA

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Reasons for Structured Authoring

by Matt Sullivan 02.02.2010 FrameMaker

In the past few weeks we’ve been helping a few clients navigate to a decision on structured (DITA, XML) or “normal” unstructured authoring. **See the end of this post for a list of some popular structured authoring tools I have plenty of colleagues that heavily favor structured authoring, and I agree that there are huge advantages to [...]

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A zen outlook for techcomm contractors

by Matt Sullivan 01.18.2010 Technical Communication

A zen outlook for #techcomm contractors and others http://justwriteclick.com/2010/01/18/last-sprint-first-step/  from @annegentle

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Screen Capture Tools comparison

by Matt Sullivan 01.06.2010 RoboHelp

Matthew Ellison has written an in-depth review of 10 popular screen capture utilities. The link is at http://www.writersua.com/articles/capturetools/index.html

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