Business Blogs

In July 2005 we said:
Let us show you how to use Blog technology to make and maintain a website for a business. We can setup for you an inexpensive site that you can maintain easily yourself, as often as you like. Most additions and alterations are done using simple web page forms.

This site is one example, here is another:
winhelp.com.au/luchetti

AND guess what!
In October 2005 Microsoft discover the same thing...
www.microsoft.com/business/executivecircle/

XDK and HDK email lists

We maintain the email list for users of xdk and hdk.
Details of that list are at:
winhelp.com.au/xdkhdk

Those of you still subscribed to the old HDK list (clari.net) should block or automatically delete emails from there. You will not be able to unsubscribe and we have no control over that list - despite being the owner of the list.

Help Authoring Tools

It seems that users of these tools have been surprised that there is no further development planned on quite a few of these tools. The list now includes RoboHelp.

This probably means that product support from the vendors will also fade. It puts support back on the users to support each other. That is what the email lists are all about.

Who did what when?

Problem: What work has been done on a particular project.
Solution: Check the files created on the PC. Hopefully they were all placed in identifiable places, like their project directory.

1. Use Command Prompt (\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories) to extract the information to clipboard. Right click the [c:\] button for the menu. Type the drive letter you want, then navigate the directories using the command:
cd (then paste the rest of the directory copied from the Windows Explorer address bar).
Use cd.. to move up a level.
2. Paste into MSWord and replace the sometimes fixed widths with tabs (macro for this)
3. Select all text for table - copy & paste into Excel
4. Sort by Date and time
5. Find files with contiguous dates to identify time spent on the project.